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Hi,

Glad that you asked these questions. Please find my answers below:

1. do i need to copy the code genereated by MB Custom Post Type for each CPT and put it in functions.php?

No. The plugin does all the work for you.

2. do i need to follow the steps in this page: https://metabox.io/docs/registering-meta-boxes/ (copy the code to register meta-box) even though i have MB Builder / MB Custom Post Types installed?

No. That are the purpose of the extensions, e.g. without touching code. You don't need to copy the code.

3. also- the code in that page start with the line:
add_filter( ‘rwmb_meta_boxes’, ‘YOURPREFIX_register_meta_boxes’ );
this line is missing from the code generated by MB Custom Post Types (as mentioned in question 1). is this ok or should i add that line?

No. As you already used MB Builder extension, you don't need to copy the code.

4. should i copy-paste any code to register my custom taxonimies and custom fields?

No. The MB Custom Post Types already did that for you.

5. in the tutorial for “Get custom field value and display in the front end” (this page: https://metabox.io/docs/get-meta-value/) you say: “To get field meta value, use this function:” and show some code – but it’s unclear where to put this code?

You should find the template files of your theme and paste the code there. Each theme has several PHP template files. You just need to find which file displays your pages, open it and paste the code in that file. To understand about template files of a WordPress theme, please read this documentation.

6. in that same page you say: “To display field value in the frontend, just put the code below in your theme’s template file:” and show some PHP code – but – my template using .yaml files, not .php files.

I'm not sure why your theme uses .yaml files. Can you please tell us about your system? Maybe you use a very different system that overwrite WordPress template system.

Again, to understand about WordPress themes and template files, please read these pages:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates
https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-files/

Ah, I got it!

Looks like we don't have such a solution for this in PHP yet. The best solution for now is using Conditional Logic extension to hide the fields from unwanted users. But it only hides from user and the fields are still outputted.

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your contribution. Can you please send me your code via email [email protected]? We're hosting the extensions in private repositories, so no pull requests are allowed now.

Hi,

Can you give some details on the 1st option? Do you use the MB Frontend Submission extension to output fields in the frontend? I'm not very clear about the downside.

Thanks for letting us know. We'll fix it soon.

Hi,

Yes, you can do that by specified the std value. This code will set the 3 inputs (clones):

array(
    'type' => 'text',
    'id' => 'test',
    'clone' => true,
    'max_clone' => 3,
    'std' => array( '', '', '' ) // Default values for 3 clones
)

Thank Troels for the bug and fix. We'll fix it now 🙂

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