Overview
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Find out how to use CMB2 as a framework to create advanced and extended WordPress posts using custom meta fields, and explore ways to display that info on the frontend.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Custom fields without dependency
- What you should know
- Demo project overview
- What is CMB2 and how does it work?
- The difference between CMB2 and ACF
- Installing CMB2 via the Plugin Directory
- Setting up our project plugin
- CMB2 as a library for your plugin
- The CMB2 documentation
- Field types in CMB2
- CMB2 and the block editor
- Defining our custom fields
- Creating our meta boxes
- Adding a the custom field type
- Adding fields to our meta boxes
- Adding a file uploader
- Creating a repeatable field
- How to get data from CMB2
- Adding our custom fields to the frontend
- Displaying from a repeatable field
- Building a post select box
- Updating the content output
- Bringing in taxonomies
- Frontend Meta Box support
- Creating a theme options page
- Adding fields to user profiles
- Next steps
