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Common WordPress APIs:
Metadata API
Jonathan Bossenger
Learn.WordPress.org

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👋🏽 Welcome!
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Hello!
○ My name is Jonathan Bossenger
○ From Cape Town, South Africa
○ Developer educator at Automattic
○ Sponsored to work with the Training Team
○ jonathanbossenger.com

3. Learn.WordPress.org
Metadata API
Jonathan Bossenger

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6. Learning outcomes
○ The Metadata API
• What is the Metadata API and why it’s useful
• How to access metadata in the WordPress dashboard as Custom Fields
• Using the WordPress Metadata API to interact with metadata
• Using the metadata wrapper functions

7. Question time
○ On a scale of 1 to 5, how well do you know this topic?

8. Requirements
○ A local WordPress install
○ A text editor
○ Access to your local database
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/sql-buddy/
○ Some post data
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/fakerpress/
○ A “test bed” file
• https://gist.github.com/jonathanbossenger/d96520acd6225ea969f091752a3bca8b

9. Let’s go!

10. Resources
○ https://wordpress.org/plugins/sql-buddy/
○ https://wordpress.org/plugins/fakerpress/
○ https://gist.github.com/jonathanbossenger/d96520acd6225ea969f091752a3bca8b
○ https://developer.wordpress.org/apis/metadata/
○ https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/metadata/custom-meta-boxes/
○ https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/