Getting Started with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

Custom fields are the secret to adding and managing extra content data in WordPress, empowering you to build detailed, feature-rich sites tailored to your needs. ACF both simplifies and improves custom field creation and management, providing your WordPress site with structured data, an intuitive way to edit it, and a smoother development process.

Join Developer Advocate: Damon Cook for a walk-through of how to get started using ACF through the creation of an automobile listing site.

This session will cover:
✅ Installing and activating ACF (free) plugin in WordPress
✅ Creating a Cars custom post type in ACF
✅ Creating custom taxonomies for the Cars custom post type and why you need them
✅ Creating field groups and assigning them key areas of your site
✅ We’ll discuss the critical pieces to establishing a full-proof structured data plan and implementing it with the help of ACF.

🔗 Final demo site: https://autocarfinder.wpenginepowered...
🔗 GitHub demo codebase: https://github.com/colorful-tones/Aut...
🔗 AdvancedCustomFields.com

00:00 Intro
00:29 WordPress Data Modeling Definitions & Concepts
03:58 [Break] Q&A
05:40 Preview of AutoCarFinder demo site
06:37 Visual chart of Post Types, Taxonomies and Meta Fields
07:33 Local dev site setup overview
10:49 Start creating Car custom post type with ACF
17:45 Create custom taxonomies for Car post type with ACF
25:29 Create Vehicle Details ACF field group with all custom fields
44:43 Demo of final working custom fields output and editing
48:00 Archive car block template preview
48:51 [Break] Q&A
51:25 How to use get_field(), get_fields(), the_field()