Best Custom Meta Box Tutorials & Resources

Written by Jean Galea
Written by Jean Galea
Here's some of the best tutorials and resources for building custom meta boxes that I've come across in the past two years. I'm posting them here to have a handy reference for all those building plugins and themes.

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Here’s some of the best tutorials and resources for building custom meta boxes that I’ve come across in the past two years. I’m posting them here to have a handy reference for all those building plugins and themes.

Tutorials

GitHub Repositories

There are some excellent GitHub repositories, which are mostly more advanced than the tutorials mentioned above, but can give you some extended functionality and offer more reusability potential.

I have also referred to this tutorial on Tutsplus in the past, but I wouldn’t recommend it, as it is riddled with some security issues and other bugs. Refer to the improved class by the same author above (Reusable Custom WP Meta Boxes).

You can also take a look at the code of some major plugins that do things right, such as Easy Digital Downloads. Digging into code is often one of the best ways of discovering how to do things, as the code of popular plugins is likely to be frequently updated and of high quality.

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Written by Jean Galea
Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and blogger. He is the founder of WP Mayor, the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight, as well as the Mastermind.fm podcast. His personal blog can be found at jeangalea.com.

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  1. I use Jared Athison’s Custom Meta Boxes and Fields class all the time. The fact that it was built by some of the best WP Developers around made me try it and I haven’t looked back.

    The code is solid and setting it up is crazy easy. Drop it in your plugin, create some boxes, and you’re good to go.

  2. Thanks for this article Jean,

    I have bookmarked it and I will evaluate given resources to find out which one can work better for me.

    Just to share my experience, I have used Meta box Plugin by Rilwis in my projects ( by embedding it as part of theme ) and found it working reasonably good.

    Let me know if you tried that and what you think about it OR any better resource than Rilwis meta box plugin.

    Thanks again.

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