In this lesson, you'll form a foundational understanding of meta boxes by looking at those that already exist in the WordPress dashboard. I'm also going to briefly touch on what we’re going to be covering throughout the lesson so that you know what to expect what’s coming in the next lesson, and throughout the remainder of the course.

The purpose of understanding meta boxes that already exist in WordPress is to demonstrate what’s possible, because how we are to know what we can build, if we don’t know what’s already been built and achieved?