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'));
}

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