Creating Maintainable WordPress Meta Boxes

Throughout this series, we're going to take at one way that we can write maintainable code in WordPress through an example plugin that introduces meta boxes, various options, and tabbed navigation in the WordPress dashboard.

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Creating Maintainable WordPress Meta Boxes: The Layout
In the first post, we looked at the initial directory structure and setup the basic code required to get a plugin running in WordPress. In this post, we're...
Tom McFarlin
26 Sep 2014
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Creating Maintainable WordPress Meta Boxes: Verify and Sanitize
Up to this point, we've put together the basic file organization of the plugin as well as the front-end, but we haven't actually implemented functionality...
Tom McFarlin
22 Oct 2014
Code
Creating Maintainable WordPress Meta Boxes: Save and Retrieve
In this article, we're going to continue our work by saving the information to the database, retrieving the information, and displaying it on the front-end....
Tom McFarlin
28 Oct 2014
Code
Creating Maintainable WordPress Meta Boxes: Refactoring
Throughout this series, we've been focusing on building maintainable WordPress meta boxes. By that, I mean that we've been working to create a WordPress...
Tom McFarlin
12 Nov 2014
Code