WordPress

Even though Gutenberg (WordPress Block Editor) has become our new reality and FSE themes are also on their way, we still need meta boxes on our projects. The meta boxes aren’t necessarily classic meta boxes for posts, it could be additional settings fields for taxonomies, users, comments and even options pages. It means that we are going to need them for a very long time. Maybe even forever.

Of course the best way to create any of the mentioned above is to code by yourself. But it could be really time consuming especially if you have a lot of fields (and working on lots of projects).

That’s when metabox plugins come into play. The most popular ones are Advanced Custom Fields and Carbon Fields. Also in this article I am going to mention my own metabox plugin I developed for my needs which is Simple Fields.

The idea of this tutorial is to become more conscious to what plugins we are using to achieve our goals, because there are lots of slow WordPress websites out there, not because WordPress is slow but because sites are overloaded with tens and even hundreds heavy plugins.

Let’s look the truth in the face – of course I am going to tell you how cool my Simple Fields plugin is. But I am not going to say “use it”, because I understand clearly that sometimes its functionality is not enough, then you can probably look at Carbon Fields plugin. And even Advanced Custom Fields PRO has its own advantages though I am not a big fan of it.

In this post we are going to talk about REST API, particularly about how to sync user registrations, profile updates and removals between two completely separate WordPress websites.

If you need to sync posts instead, then I can suggest you a tutorial and a plugin.

This tutorial is a small addition to my another tutorial about creating posts with REST API in WordPress, because there I didn’t mention how to work with metadata and what moments you have to keep in mind.

As a result of this tutorial we will just create a simple draft post with a couple custom fields in it.

Recently I have updated the tutorial about creating a post with WordPress REST API but I didn’t cover a topic of featured images there.

It is not that simple actually, but I will make it simple for you.

I have a plenty of code tutorials on my blog but almost in none of them I describe in details where to insert the code in WordPress. It is because I write mostly for developers who already know something so I usually skip the basic part.

But I came to a decision that it would be super-useful to have a tutorial like this on my blog.

So here we are – right now I am going to show you 3 ways how you can use code snippets on your WordPress or WooCommerce website.

I’ve been asked about how to do it probably a million times. The question is how to make the URLs of your custom post types (or WooCommerce products) to look like Pages.

For example how to have example.com/t-shirt/ instead of example.com/product/t-shirt/.

In this tutorial I am going to provide you a complete guide! As an example we are going to remove /product/ from WooCommerce product URLs. But before we begin I would like to warn you that you have to avoid it if possible, because it may slows down the overall performance of your website and you have to be extra-careful when assigning a specific slug for your posts.

In this tutorial I am going to show two methods how you can add additional user profile fields in WordPress admin area. In the first one we are not going to use any plugins at all, in the second one – we will do the same, but with the help of my Simple Fields plugin.

Let’s get started, I think. Here is what we are going to create: