Hello.
I don’t believe we have been introduced.
R2-D2? A pleasure to meet you.
I am C-3PO, Human-Cyborg Relations.
Justin Sternberg:
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Developer Lead at WebDevStudios
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Lead Developer of CMB2
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Partner/Developer of Story|FTW
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Husband & dad of 3 kiddos
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@jtsternberg on twitter
What in the Galactic Empire
is a “CMB2”???
CMB2 is the new generation of
Custom Metaboxes and Fields
(CMB). CMB2 will help you create
metaboxes and forms with
custom fields that will
blow your mind.
But seriously…
CMB2 is a developer’s toolkit for adding
fields, and forms to WordPress.
Let me demonstrate.
Post Meta BoxesDocumentation
User ProfilesDocumentation
User Profiles on the FrontendDocumentation
Options PagesDocumentation
FrontendDocumentation
ShortcodesDocumentation
What else??
“Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.”
What are the benefits over rolling my own?
“I sense great fear in you, Skywalker. You have hate… you have anger… but you don’t use them.”
Standard framework benefits apply
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Bootstrap
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Genesis
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WordPress
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jQuery
Other goods
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Useful built-in field types
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Who wants to roll their own repeatable fields??
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Live oembed previews
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Date/time/color pickers
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Configuration portability
But does it do __________?
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
Custom API hook that allows you to create your own field types
- CMB Attached Posts Field by coreymcollins: Custom field type for attaching posts to a page.
- CMB Field Type: Google Maps from mustardBees: Custom field type for Google Maps.
- CMB Field Type: Select2 from mustardBees: Custom field types which use the Select2 script.
Configurable field parameters
array(
'name' => 'Text Medium',
'id' => $prefix .'text_medium',
'type' => 'text_medium',
'sanitization_cb' => 'custom_sanitization_callback',
'escape_cb' => 'custom_escaping_callback',
'repeatable' => true,
'attributes' => array(
'placeholder' => 'A small amount of text',
'rows' => 3,
'required' => 'required',
),
),
Helper Functions:
cmb2_metabox_form()cmb2_get_field_value()cmb2_get_oembed()
cmb2_metabox_form()cmb2_get_field_value()cmb2_get_oembed()20 filters
(not including variable filters),
6 actions,
2 custom javascript events,
and at least 10 callback-ready field parameters
Short answer… probably.
“Great, kid. Don’t get cocky”
Other great tools for metaboxes, fields, forms, etc
tools continued – user focused
- User focused tools