The introductory slides from my 2015 WordCamp St. Louis presentation on creating flexible websites with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. The bulk of the presentation was done live. I'll try to get a screencast up.

1. Building Flexible Websites
with Advanced Custom Fields
Jason Yingling
@jason_yingling

3. • Lead Developer at Red8 Interactive
• Working with WordPress almost
exclusively the last 2 years
• ACF that entire time

4. • Custom Field - A place for storing extra
information to a post known as meta-data
that can be used to enhance your posts.

5. Adding Fields with ACF

6. Editing Fields with ACF
• More user friendly
• Easier customization

7. • Flexible Content Fields – acts as a blank
canvas to which you can add unlimited
number of layouts with full control over the
order
• Part of the Pro version

8. A bit on our boiler
Based off boiler by Ollo
https://github.com/ollo/boiler

9. On to the code

10. Questions?

11. The End