Effortless Gutenberg Blocks with the help of ACF Theme Code Pro
Learn how to quickly and easily create custom ACF blocks for the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg) using our ACF Theme Code Pro plugin. Theme Code Pro will generate all the necessary block registration and template logic – you just need to bring the HTML & CSS to suit your project needs. Video Transcript Hey. Phil […]
Phil Kurth Calculated field enhancements in Advanced Forms Pro version 1.6.6
Version 1.6.6 of Advanced Forms Pro was released just a few days ago and with it came some interesting little enhancements to the calculated field that allow you to do the following: Trigger calculated field rerenders whenever needed. Intercept the rendered preview markup and append it anywhere you need it on the page. This is […]
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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 […]
Hookturn 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 […]
How to pre-fill complex fields in Advanced Forms
Learn how to pre-fill fields in Advanced Forms in the video. We’ll run through a simple text field example then move onto complex fields using a repeater and a group field to illustrate how to work with ACF’s complex field data structures. Video Transcript Hey, it’s Phil here from Hookturn and in this video I […]
How to Create Multi-Step Forms in WordPress Using ACF
Build multi-step WordPress forms with ACF field groups and Advanced Forms. Add page breaks, get automatic navigation, and keep all ACF field types — no code required.