WordCamp Minneapolis 2015 slides - Live coding talk about Meta Boxes

1. Dan Beil | @add_action_dan | Alley Interactive
Advanced Meta Data and
You
Going Beyond add_meta_box

2. Dan Beil | @add_action_dan | Alley Interactive
Hi, Im Dan Beil
- Software Developer at Alley Interactive
- ( WordPress VIP Partner )
- Working with WordPress for ~ 5-6 years
- B.S. in Applied Sociology
- Dogs

3. Dan Beil | @add_action_dan | Alley Interactive
What Is Meta Data
Traditionally used for additional info about a ‘post’ such as a phone
number, Job Title, or product price
○ Most common use is probably a simple text field
Add_post_meta stores info in the post object
○ Limited use as stand alone functionality
○ https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_meta
When used in harmony with taxonomies and CPTs complex data
relations become possible.

4. Dan Beil | @add_action_dan | Alley Interactive
Ways to manage / create Meta Data
- Advanced Custom Fields
- popular with many power users and some developers
- In the WP.org repo
- CMB2
- Used by WebDevStudios (and created by them)
- https://github.com/WebDevStudios/CMB2
- Fieldmanager
- Used by Alley Interactive (and created by us)
- https://github.com/alleyinteractive/wordpress-fieldmanager

5. Dan Beil | @add_action_dan | Alley Interactive
Github Code
https://github.com/dannyb195/WCMPLS-2015