BUILDING WORDPRESS THEMES with

ABOUT ME Developer Outreach Manager 
 Founder @tessak22 ➤ Love Obsessed with Dogs ➤ Shoot Archery ➤ Passionate about teaching others

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WHAT IS ACF? ‣ Stands for Advanced Custom Fields ‣ Makes content editing easier ‣ Easy to learn and use ‣ Allows you to add custom meta fields to content ‣ Free & Pro Versions

WHAT CAN IT DO? ‣ Add custom data to your pages, posts & custom posts. ‣ Collect theme setting values that you can use globally in your theme. ‣ Create a custom page builder- esque layout editor ‣ Capture entries through a frontend form ‣ Extend your theme capabilities and features ‣ Data is stored in the postmeta table

TEMPLATE 101 ‣ functions.php - allows you to add functionality to your theme ‣ style.css - your CSS (styling) for your theme ‣ page.php - page template file ‣ single.php - single post file ‣ single-postname.php - Custom post type

LET’S BUILD SOME STUFF

FIELD GROUPS + FIELDS Let’s create a new field group! ➤ I have created a page template titled “My Dog” ➤ I also started a field group titled My Dog.

ADDING TO THEME advancedcustomfields.com/ resources/code-examples

Edit your ACF data on the frontend of your site! Add where form should be: Add before get_header FRONTEND FORMS

PRO FEATURES

REPEATER FIELD This field is really nice for sliders, carousels or anything that someone may want to use an unpredictable number of times.

OPTIONS PAGE Options page allows you to have global fields that can be used where ever you want in your theme!

FLEXIBLE CONTENT My favorite feature of all… With flexible content you can essentially make your own page builder with just the blocks that you need!

GUTENBERG! advancedcustomfields.com/blog/the- state-of-acf-in-a-gutenberg-world/

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