Advanced Custom Fields: a Designer's Approach

Advanced Custom Fields: A Designer’s Approach Liam Dempsey @liamdempseyPhiladelphia WordPress Meetup: February2013

I’m Liam Dempsey •  Designer + Director of a small, international communications design consultancy •  Run Philly ‘burbs WordPress Meetup •  Bow to the greatness of the Philadelphia WordPress MeetupPhiladelphia WordPress Meetup: February2013

The Challenge For 2013: Learn more about writing code for WordPress ...Philadelphia WordPress Meetup: February2013

My Own Limitations •  Me ≠developer •  A designer who codes •  No parts developerPhiladelphia WordPress Meetup: February2013

The Diversity of WordPress •  WordPress is versatile – many ways to achieve the same front end display •  Let’s avoid the more/diﬀerent/better ways discussionPhiladelphia WordPress Meetup: February2013

Entice designersto get into code

Introducing ACF •  A designer-friendly way to integrate custom ﬁelds into your WP builds •  Use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to take control of your edit screens and custom ﬁeld dataPhiladelphia WordPress Meetup: February2013

Give me examples! •  Add highlight boxes to the home page •  Display address info from the contact page in the header, footer or sidebar •  Create page speciﬁc content types •  Allow your client to focus on content management – leaving WP and your CSS to worry about presentationPhiladelphia WordPress Meetup: February2013

Before jumping intothe plugin/code,decide which elementswill be controlled viathe ACF plugin.

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Plugin decisions ACF needs to be installed for the meta data to be displayed. It’s not a user and discard plugin. Must-use Plugin? Plugin?Philadelphia WordPress Meetup: February2013

Enabling shortcodes Add a ﬁlter to the functions.php ﬁlePhiladelphia WordPress Meetup: February2013

Let’s jumpinto the demo

ACF: The Magic Code <?php the_field($field_name, $post_id); ?>! !Philadelphia WordPress Meetup: February2013

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Advanced Custom Fields: a Designer's Approach

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