The document discusses Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), a plugin that allows adding custom fields to WordPress posts and pages beyond the default title and content fields. ACF offers both free and paid Pro versions, with the Pro version providing additional field types like repeaters and galleries. The document provides examples of how to create ACF field groups and templates to display ACF field values. It compares ACF to custom post types, noting ACF is useful for editing specific content blocks within a page template or when the content changes but layout stays the same.

1. WordPress:
Advanced Custom
Fields
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2. A typical page or post

3. Available fields
Title
Featured image
Content

5. But what if you want more?

7. Our options
✖ Add HTML to your content
? Custom post types
? Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

8. ACF examples:
Custom field field
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12. ACF examples:
Repeater field
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15. Advanced Custom
Fields plugin
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16. What does ACF do?
Gives you the ability to add
custom fields beyond
WordPress’ defaults

18. ACF – free version
Custom fields

19. ACF Pro
$25AUD
single site license
$100AUD
developer license – unlimited
installs, lifetime updates

20. ACF Pro features
Repeater field
Gallery field
Flexible Content Field
Clone field

21. ACF demo:
Creating a Field Group
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22. Using ACF in
templates
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23. Using a field in a template
<?php if( get_field('sub_heading') ): ?>
<h2>
<?php the_field('sub_heading'); ?>
</h2>
<?php endif; ?>

24. Using the repeater field in a
template
<?php
if( have_rows('repeater_field_name') ):
while ( have_rows('repeater_field_name') ) : the_row();
the_sub_field('sub_field_name');
endwhile;
else :
// no rows found
endif;
?>

25. ACF vs
Custom Post Types
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26. Custom Post Types
Best when content needs to be
used in multiple areas across
website

27. Custom Post Types
Creates a post in WordPress =
an indexable instance of
content.

28. ACF is useful when…
1. to edit specific or blocks of
content in one page template

29. ACF is useful when…
2. The layout stays the same,
but the content changes

30. Learned something?
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