One question people often ask is what’s the difference between Meta Box and Advanced Custom Fields? One difference is that Meta Box has an extension called Frontend Submission. What this does is it lets you easily create a front-end form for submitting posts or Custom Post Type records. That type of functionality is available for ACF but only as a third party extension. Here is a tutorial creating a front-end Contact Us form for a Custom Post Type called Contacts. The video version is near the top of the post.

Power user tutorial – Meta Box Views is a powerful code based solution for creating templates to display dynamic data. Post relationships are an advanced feature that allows you to connect post types to show related information. This detailed tutorial combines these two features and shows how to use Meta Box Views to display fields from post types connected with a post relationship.

In this video Paul C considers several solutions for custom fields that are ACF alternatives.

This step by step tutorial shows how to create related Custom Post Types and display related Custom Post Type information using Meta Box and Bricks.

This article considers the pros and cons of using the same taxonomy for multiple post types.

Meta Box recently introduced a new way to make blocks so that we can now use Meta Box blocks in the Site Editor and in theme templates. In this video I discuss this option and walk-through creating a simple block and using it in the Site Editor. Thanks to Scott Brim for his assistance.

This tutorial shows how to use Meta Box Views to show specific posts. In the tutorial it is to show only the products that are on sale.

Here is a Meta Box tutorial showing how to create a bi-directional relationship between two Custom Post Types and display them using Oxygen.

The Meta Box team has released a new feature. Sometimes you are in a chicken / egg situation where say, for example, you have 2 related post types “book author” and “book.” If you are adding a new book and the author doesn’t exist then you can’t add the relation until you create a record in both Custom Post Types. This new feature allows you to add a new record in a popup to lessen workflow interruption.