How can I avoid re-inventing the Custom Fields wheel in my Plugin’s Metabox?

The short answer is that there isn’t any straightforward way to do this, since the custom field metabox was not written with extensibility in mind.

You could add the additional field using JavaScript and hijack the Add button to send the data to your custom AJAX handler that would store them as you want.

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