Introducing the New AwesomeACF: A Complete ACF Resource Hub
We’ve completely redesigned and rebuilt AwesomeACF.com from the ground up. What started as a simple list of ACF extensions is now a full resource hub for WordPress developers who build with Advanced Custom Fields. What’s on AwesomeACF The new site brings together everything an ACF developer needs in one place: 240+ ACF extensions — every […]
Hookturn Customise the post titles in ACF’s relationship field
If you’ve ever found yourself wanting to modify the post titles in an ACF relationship field, you may have already stumbled across the acf/fields/relationship/result filter. It’s a pretty useful filter when you want to provide some more contextual information next to a post title in the relationship field results list. As with many filters built […]
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Load an ACF field’s options dynamically via PHP.
One thing I really appreciate about the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin is the flexibility it offers via WordPress’ hook system. For most use cases, we can do what we need from the admin but now and then I come up against scenarios where it is either necessary or just a whole lot easier to […]
How to customize the colour palette for ACF’s colour picker field
Ever found yourself wishing you could define an exact colour palette for ACF’s colour picker field? Good news! You totally can. Using the JavaScript API built right into Advanced Custom Fields we can use a very small snippet of code to specify exactly which colours appear in the palette of suggested colours. <?php add_action( ‘admin_footer’, […]
Customise ACF’s WYSIWYG field toolbars for a simpler admin experience
The ability to control exactly what buttons are available in a WYSIWYG field is a really neat point of customisation available in Advanced Custom Fields. The WYSIWYG field is definitely convenient but I often find myself needing to use it for no other reason than the most basic of formatting. Leaving too many options in […]
How to get Advanced Custom Fields to load JSON files from more than one directory
If you use Advanced Custom Fields a lot you are probably using ACF’s very awesome Local JSON feature. By default, ACF saves and loads all JSON files from the acf-json directory inside your theme but it is possible to take control of ACF’s behaviour to define your own custom load points as outlined in the […]
Get an ACF sub-field key by field name
Having written plugins that extend the very popular WordPress plugin Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), I’ve come up against the need to work out a field’s key based on its field name. This normally comes up when structuring data for programmatic field update as ACF needs to the values mapped to field keys when updating complex […]
ACF Theme Code Pro (v2.4) with Support for ACF Blocks!
With version 2.4 of ACF Theme Code Pro, you can now easily generate code to use ACF Blocks in your projects! Simply follow the steps below: Install ACF Theme Code Pro v2.4 (you can download from your account area) Browse to Custom Fields > Tools Create a name for your block & copy the code Paste the […]
Structured objects in a post-Gutenberg world using ACF
Gutenberg. It’s here. The editor we’ve all been huffing and puffing over is finally gonna land in WordPress core and damage all our livelihoods forever… …or is it? Up until recently, I’d just kinda resigned myself to very basic testing with Gutenberg. I’d really just installed the plugin, created posts, and developed a feel for […]
ACF Theme Code v2.3 Released
We’ve just released another update to ACF Theme Code Pro, you can find out the details below. Support for qTranslate & more third party fields In version 2.3.0 we’ve added support for ACF qTranslate which includes translatable fields for Text, Textarea, WYSIWYG, Image and File. We’ve also added support for the following third party fields RGBA Colour picker field, Ninja Forms and the Gravity […]