The Beginner’s guide to advanced Custom Fields in WordPress

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Every millisecond more than 50 million people ping google or search engine to check their choice or desire they wanted. Developing a website for a company is a billion-dollar choice as people often get items after checking their rating and product validity in the market. The wordpress is a blogging tool and content management system which will help you to make your website more authentic and reliable for customers in terms of functionality and looks as you want.

The open-source management tools offer you so much in terms of making your website a unique and updated one. you have come to this page to increase your skill in developing your company website, there is a very big responsibility on your shoulders and I am sure after reading this page and getting the insight you will get a certain new idea. From using themes, your own code, and plugins it has a lot to offer you., The WordPress site will be anything: a content hub; a marketplace; a community. If your skills permit the right combination of tools and knowledge you can be at the top of creating things.

By crossing 1 million websites, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has become one of the most reliable tools for this trade. Another interesting fact is that many professionals are not yet handy with ACF tools and usage.

DESIGN YOUR OWN CONTENT BASED ON YOUR NEEDS.

Advanced Custom Fields will help you to make your complicated content in a simple and logical way. You could be amazed that what kind of tool is this which will surprise with its activity.

Normally, every WordPress edit screen is limited at certain extent. It’s probably best used for a simple blog post with a title, thumbnail and content.

The visual editor WordPress performs an excellent job by permitting variety content editing, well the crazy thing is that web developer feels under confident with this editing tool as it does not handle complicated things.

ACF gives you an opportunity to take full control on the editor screen as it will allow you cut, trim or modify at any extent. By Using ACF, we can add fields n number of times to the WordPress visual editor. Otherwise, we can choose to hide it completely. additionally, you will get a wide array of field types which includes text, media, choice, layout etc. every field can be edited, added the way we like.

A practical example:

For example, you have a website where a man is sitting on a chair and very keenly doing his work in laptop. his expression shows he is happy and cheerful and his environment (i.e., living room with a bookshelf backside and couch aside).

In this case, if our client doesn’t like the image or background. let us set some goals before we may come to the following conclusion:

  1. Computing our client to swap the image of “hero” by giving enabling option, so that he can change the pic as he wish.
  2. Permit the text layered of top the image to be editable.
  3. Neglect those stuffs which break these formats

Let’s move ahead as we have set a goal which will help us to look further with more varieties of tools in it.

WordPress Visual Editor

The basic way to add content in WordPress in this another way, yet, you have to make yourself more compatible and pressurise to make it work. The image in the box of hero or the text can be changed by editor but we need to change some CSS case styles in the frontend tools to make that work. We have some issues if we use CSS classes at frontend, let’s see some issues at starting

  • The visual editor is highly sensitive while using CSS classes. For instance, if our company client hits backspace continuously or more than few times, the chances of getting entire code deleted will become an issue. The result will totally be broken into different layouts.
  • If a new user enters this project or this file later ,he may feel difficult in understanding the scenario and he may take lot of time in understanding the concept which may lead to waste of lot of time and energy

We can conclude the above explanations that client may get many things at starting while using editor tools .he may leave a big room for so many mistakes until he is aware of all those steps he follows while editing a picture for his website or anything.

Approach for ACF.

By using this field, we can create our field in which our client can edit anything he wants, for example a picture of hero can edited by the way our client requires as custom fields will help you in doing so.

You can see your new edited screen which will :

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  • Contributes simple and numeral editing areas for a singular content element.
  • Adjusting of the file size its type and dimensions varies and  the image uploaded is to neglect mistakes of client.
  • Modify our theme templates in HTML to the place in which our image and text exactly the way they want.

Hence, we can place that our carefully designed layout stays and also gets impacted by providing our client the freedom to make changes and modify based on their needs.

Additionally, we can also go through those created intuitive UI insight of the WordPress in which our client can have a look.

Alternatively, having everything inside of a single WYSIWYG editor, every editable piece of content can be separated out into its unique field. Every field has its own label and you can also add instructions. This simplifies the process and leaves no doubt in our client’s mind as to how things work.

Hence these basic tips will give you some insights about the advance custom fields features and most importantly the dos and don’ts are clearly mentioned above. There is lot of other insights too for which watch YouTube videos for clear illustration. Keep your world shining with efforts and hope.

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