Persisting custom field data

You already know that default fields and taxonomies are automatically saved to the database on post publish. In order to complete the project creation process, we need to save the custom field data to the meta tables. As usual, we have to update the constructor to add necessary actions to match the following code:

public function __construct($template_parser) {
  // Instance variable initializations
  // Other actions
  add_action('save_post', array($this, 'save_project_meta_data'));
}

WordPress doesn't offer an out of the box solution for form validation as most websites don't have complex forms. This becomes a considerable limitation in web applications. So, let's explore the possible workarounds to reduce these limitations. The save_post action inside the constructor will only get called once the post is saved to the database with the default field data. We can do the necessary validations and processing for custom fields inside the function defined for the...