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CMB2

Contributors: webdevstudios, jtsternberg, gregrickaby, tw2113, patrickgarman, JPry Donate link: http://webdevstudios.com
Tags: metaboxes, forms, fields, options, settings
Requires at least: 3.8.0
Tested up to: 4.3
Stable tag: 2.1.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Complete contributors list found here: github.com/WebDevStudios/CMB2/graphs/contributors

Description

CMB2 is a developer's toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress that will blow your mind.

Download plugin on wordpress.org

CMB2 is a complete rewrite of Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress. To get started, please follow the examples in the included example-functions.php file and have a look at the basic usage instructions.

You can see a list of available field types here.

Features:

• Create metaboxes to be used on post edit screens.
• Create forms to be used on an options pages.
• Create forms to handle user meta and display them on user profile add/edit pages.
• Flexible API that allows you to use CMB forms almost anywhere, even on the front-end.
• Several field types are included.
• Custom API hook that allows you to create your own field types.
• There are numerous hooks and filters, allowing you to modify many aspects of the library (without editing it directly).
• Repeatable fields for most field types are supported, as well as repeatable field groups.
• CMB2 is safe to bundle with any project. It will only load the newest version in the system.

Translation

• Thanks to many in the CMB2 community and to our friends at wp-translations.org, we have a good start on several translations for CMB2. Please feel free to work with wp-translations.org to provide even more!

3rd Party Resources

Custom Field Types

• CMB2 Field Type: CMB Attached Posts Field from coreymcollins: custom_attached_posts, for attaching posts to a page.

• CMB2 Field Type: CMB2 Post Search field: post_search_text adds a post-search dialog for searching/attaching other post IDs.

• CMB2 Field Type: CMB2 User Search field from Mte90: user_search_text adds a user-search dialog for searching/attaching other User IDs.

• CMB2 Field Type: CMB2 RGBa Colorpicker from JayWood: rgba_colorpicker adds a color picker that supports RGBa, (RGB with transparency (alpha) value).

• CMB2 Field Type: Google Maps from mustardBees: Custom field type for Google Maps.

  The pw_map field stores the latitude/longitude values which you can then use to display a map in your theme.

• CMB2 Field Type: Select2 from mustardBees: Custom field types which use the Select2 script:

  1. The pw_select field acts much like the default select field. However, it adds typeahead-style search allowing you to quickly make a selection from a large list
  2. The pw_multiselect field allows you to select multiple values with typeahead-style search. The values can be dragged and dropped to reorder

• CMB Field Type: Slider from mattkrupnik: Adds a jQuery UI Slider field.

• WDS CMB2 Date Range Field from dustyf of WebDevStudios: Adds a date range field.

• CMB2 Remote Image Select from JayWood of WebDevStudios: Allows users to enter a URL in a text field and select a single image for use in post meta. Similar to Facebook's featured image selector.

• CMB Field Type: Sorter: This plugin gives you two CMB field types based on the Sorter script.

Other Helpful Resources

• Taxonomy_MetaData: WordPress Helper Class for saving pseudo-metadata for taxonomy terms. Includes an extended class for using CMB to generate the actual form fields.
• CMB2 Taxonomy from jcchavezs: Similar to Taxonomy_MetaData, but uses a custom table for taxonomy term meta storage.
• WordPress Shortcode Button: Uses CMB2 fields to generate fields for shortcode input modals.
• WDS-Simple-Page-Builder: Uses existing template parts in the currently-active theme to build a customized page with rearrangeable elements. Built with CMB2.
• CMB2 Example Theme: Demonstrate how to include CMB2 in your theme, as well as some cool tips and tricks.
• facetwp-cmb2: FacetWP integration with CMB2.
• CMB2-grid from origgami: A grid system for WordPress CMB2 library that allows the creation of columns for a better layout in the admin.
• CMB2 Conditionals from jcchavezs: Allows developers to relate fields so the display of one is conditional on the value of another.
• CMB2 Metabox Code Generator from hasinhayder: Use this code generator to generate fully functional CMB2 metaboxes by visually adding fields in the designer.

Contribution

All contributions welcome. If you would like to submit a pull request, please check out the trunk branch and pull request against it. Please read the CONTRIBUTING doc for more details.

A complete list of all our awesome contributors found here: github.com/WebDevStudios/CMB2/graphs/contributors

Links

• Project Homepage
• Github project page
• Documentation (GitHub wiki)

Installation

If installing the plugin from wordpress.org:

1. Upload the entire /CMB2 directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate CMB2 through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Copy (and rename if desired) example-functions.php into to your theme or plugin's directory.
4. Edit to only include the fields you need and rename the functions.
5. Profit.

If including the library in your plugin or theme:

1. Place the CMB2 directory inside of your theme or plugin.
2. Copy (and rename if desired) example-functions.php into a folder above the CMB2 directory OR copy the entirety of its contents to your theme's functions.php file.
3. Edit to only include the fields you need and rename the functions (CMB2 directory should be left unedited in order to easily update the library).
4. Profit.

Most Recent Changes

2.1.0

Bug Fixes

• Fix user fields not saving. Props achavez, (#417).

2.0.9

Enhancements

• Updated/Added many translations. Props fxbenard, (#203) and Mte90 for the Italian translation.
• Updated 'file_list' field type to have a more intutive selection in the media library, and updated the 'Use file' text in the button. Props SteveHoneyNZ (#357, #358).
• 'closed' group field option parameter introduced in order to set the groups as collapsed by default. Requested in #391.
• Added "cmb2_{$object_type}_process_fields_{$cmb_id}" hook for hooking in and modifying the metabox or fields before the fields are processed/sanitized for saving.
• Added Comment Metabox support. Props GregLancaster71 (#238, #244).
• New "cmb2_{$field_id}_is_valid_img_ext" filter for determining if a field value has a valid image file-type extension.

Bug Fixes

• 'multicheck_inline', 'taxonomy_radio_inline', and 'taxonomy_multicheck_inline' field types were not outputting anything since it's value was not being returned. Props ediamin, (#367, (#405).
• 'hidden' type fields were not honoring the 'show_on_cb' callback. Props JPry, (commits).
• Fixed: There was no minified cmb2-front.min.css file.
• Fallback for fatal error with invalid timezone. Props ryanduff (#385).
• Fix issues with deleting a row from repeatable group. Props yuks (#387).
• Ensure value passed to strtotime in make_valid_time_stamp is cast to a string. Props vajrasar (#389).
• Fixed issue with Windows IIS and bundling CMB2 in the theme. Props DevinWalker, (#400, #401)

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Known Issues

• The CMB2 url (for css/js resources) does not define properly in all WAMP/XAMP (Windows) environments.
• Metabox containing WYSIWYG editor cannot be moved or used in a repeatable way at this time (this is a TinyMCE issue).
• Not all fields work well in a repeatable group.