Meta Box

Hi Elizabeth,

Thank you for spending your time to use the plugin Meta Box and Extensions.

This plugin has been developed over 8 years ago, it has a lot of functions (APIs) to help the user creates the meta boxes and fields. It supports a little UI to create the Post types, Taxonomies and Custom fields if you do not want to touch the code but if you want to get more options/customizations, you have to know a bit of code to use the API.

After activating the plugin MB AIO, you can check the available extensions in Admin Dashboard -> Meta Box -> Extensions and almost of it does not have the UI, just manipulate by the code.

Regarding the registration form, it is the prebuilt form with the shortcode to show on the front and we can change the fields with shortcode parameters. And you can use the CSS code to style the elements inside the form as well.

Thank for your understanding and let me know if you have any questions.

Hi Benj,

The extension MB Frontend Submission only helps the visitor/user can submit the post with the prebuilt shortcode to show the form.

If you want to create your own form and pull the value from the field, please try to use the function rwmb_the_value() or rwmb_get_value() or the shortcode.

Hi Benj,

The form validation works as well without the option Ajax submit
[mb_frontend_form id='meta-box-id' post_fields='title,content']

You can check the option required in MB builder or use the validation to validate the form input.

After changing something in the Builder or the code that creates the fields, you should refresh the post/page and click Update again to apply the changes.

Hi,

It is impossible but when outputting the field value, you can check the user role before with simple code

if( check_user_role() ) {
    echo rwmb_meta('field_id');
}

please following this guide to know the function to check user role.

Hi James,

The page builder only shows the custom fields when you create the fields and assign them to the post. You can use the MB Builder or Online Generator tool to grab all the fields into a meta box with a few clicks.

For more information, please follow the documentation.

Hi Matt,

You can create a relationship between terms easy with this code

add_action( 'mb_relationships_init', function () {
    MB_Relationships_API::register( [
        'id'   => 'term_to_term',
        'from' => [
            'object_type' => 'term',
            'taxonomy'    => 'category',
        ],
        'to'   => [
            'object_type' => 'term',
            'taxonomy'    => 'product_cat',
        ],
    ] );
} );

an example between the category of post and product category of Product (WooCommerce). Then this code will show the terms which are related

$args = array(
    'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
    'relationship' => [
        'id'   => 'term_to_term',
        'from' => get_queried_object_id(), // You can pass object ID or full object
    ],
);
$terms = get_terms( $args );

foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
    echo $term->name . '<br>';
}

To manipulate with the terms, please follow this documentation.

Hi Brian,

The extension MB Conditional Logic helps you to show/hide the field or other HTML elements on the backend. This guide maybe help you to create a conditional logic when showing the elements on the frontend.

Hi,

The right ID of the field is $prefix . 'field_id', could you please check the $prefix variable above the code if it has any string? Or share the code that you use to create the field.