Meta Box Views 1.10.0

Meta Box Views allows you to write any HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for your templates. So you have full control of what will be outputted on the front end, and thus, you can optimize the output the way you want (for a better semantic or better performance). That means you no longer have multiple nested “div” like you used to have when using a page builder plugin! And your score on Google PageSpeed Insights will be higher. By separating HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (each of them will have a separated editor with syntax highlighting), you can separate the output and styling, which helps you organize the views better.

One-Click To Insert Fields

Whenever you need to insert a Meta Box field, post field, or user field, you can easily do that with a single click. You can choose which fields you want to insert from the Insert Fields panel on the right. And the plugin supports cloneable groups as well as settings fields and custom user fields. And for each field, depending on its type, there will be some additional options for the output. All you need to do is just select them and insert them into the template editor.

Twig support

Imagine when you want to show a HTML section only when a Meta Box field has value? Or do you want to display a specific image when a post doesn’t have a featured image? Of course, that can’t be done with HTML. With Twig, the problem is solved easily! Twig is the most popular template engine for PHP, which is flexible and fast. Integrating Twig in MB Views, you’re now able to write conditions (if..else), control structures (for loop) and use a lot of useful filters to format the output.

Powerful Location Rules

MB Views has a powerful location system that allows you to set where to show views. E.g. you can set a view to show on a single post type template, or for only posts in a specific category. You can also combine multiple conditions to create your own logic rules.

Build Your Templates, Not Just Content

And you can set MB Views to render the rule for the whole layout or only render for the post content area. That means you have full control of the layout output and thus, you can customize it better. With the connection with object fields and query fields, you can get all posts and output your posts as a grid or list in an archive page. Or output post title, content, and comments in a singular page template. Read our specific guide for MB Views here. This opens a lot of possibilities to redesign your website without touching or changing your theme files!