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WordPress: Advanced Custom Fields

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Overview

Use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to add new fields to posts and pages in WordPress.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Customize WordPress content with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
  • What you should know
  • Demo project overview
1. Getting Started with ACF
  • What are custom fields?
  • ACF free vs. ACF PRO
  • Downloading and installing ACF
2. Creating Field Groups with 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
3. Displaying Your Fields
  • Creating a child theme
  • Displaying basic fields
  • Displaying relational fields
  • Styling the fields
4. Working with Data in ACF
  • 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
5. Creating a Gutenberg Block
  • 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
6. Cleaning Up the Admin
  • Hiding meta boxes with ACF
  • Multiple rules for displaying fields
  • Organizing fields with layout types
  • Exporting field groups
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Joe Casabona

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