2014
Lynda
Morten Rand-Hendriksen
1:39
English

By default, WordPress posts and pages have a limited set of data-input fields. But sometimes you need to collect and display more data than what is available. This is where Advanced Custom Fields comes in handy. Using this plugin, you can create new custom fields for your posts, pages, and custom post types. Staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows you how to set up your own fields and display the content on the front end of a site, connect posts with relational fields, and move the fields from a development environment to a live WordPress site.

Introduction
Welcome
What to know before you start this course
1. Advanced Custom Fields (ACF): An Introduction
What is ACF?
Getting and installing ACF
2. Using ACF to Add New Post Fields
Creating a field group
Creating standard text fields
Adding content to fields in posts and pages
Create a child theme to display ACF content
Displaying ACF output in templates
3. Using ACF for Advanced Relational Displays
Overview of ACF relational fields
Adding contributors to a post
Displaying contributor information in templates
Adding a Relationship field to relate posts
Displaying the Relationship field as a Further Reading list
4. Using ACF to Improve the Content Authoring Experience
Using ACF to control what's visible in the post and page editors
Using conditional fields to add context
Using tabs and messages for a better user experience
5. Going Further with ACF
Exporting and importing custom fields
Building ACF into your theme
Extending ACF with premium extensions
Caveats to using ACF
Conclusion
Exploring WordPress theme development with lynda.com

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