Overview
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Use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to add new fields to posts and pages in WordPress.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Customize WordPress content with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
- What you should know
- Demo project overview
- What are custom fields?
- ACF free vs. ACF PRO
- Downloading and installing ACF
- Creating your first field group
- Field types overview
- Adding fields to your fields group
- Adding content to your new fields
- Primer on adding to your website
- Creating a child theme
- Displaying basic fields
- Displaying relational fields
- Styling the fields
- Exploring advanced features of ACF
- What is repeatable data?
- Creating a repeater field
- Displaying the repeater in your theme
- Styling the repeater
- Coding a front-end submission form
- Creating the submission form page
- What do blocks mean in ACF?
- Defining your block in code
- Defining your block in the admin
- Writing your block callback function
- Creating the block template
- Making your block look good
- Hiding meta boxes with ACF
- Multiple rules for displaying fields
- Organizing fields with layout types
- Exporting field groups
- Next steps
