WordPress Advanced Custom Fields for Beginners (Step by Step Tutorial)

In this WordPress Advanced Custom Fields basics video I'll be teaching you step by step how to install the ACF plugin, add a custom field group, add a custom text field, and display it on the backend and frontend of your Wordpress Website.

I will show you how to display these fields using a shortcode (with no PHP coding necessary) and also how to display the custom fields by editing your theme template files.

This is only part 1 in this series, there will be more advanced lessons and wordpress website project to come on using advanced custom fields as the backbone.

My Gear:

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:29 How to Install the ACF Plugin
0:42 Create a Field Group
1:17 Creating a Custom Field
3:21 ACF Location Options
4:25 Adding a Custom Field to a Post
4:57 How to Display the ACF Field

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[tomfraser]

Thank you for a simple concise explanation, I've been "farting" around with ACF for ages unsuccessfully

[mgillespiedesign]

Would be nice to see how to make and apply it to custom post types

[Kipzi]

I followed these instructions exactly and it's showing on my post page but not the output. :/ I enabled shortcodes in functions

[reverendbluejeans]

Just did not work using shortcode. But it did work via spectra dynamic content.

[yasirahmed]

Hey bro if i want to show this in page type not in post what file should i edit for page for the code?

[kanwalnaz]

can you add into workreap theme posting services template??

[abdullogiyasov]

How can i display on frontend now? I need to display color buttons from color picker. How did you display color buttons on frontend ?

[mileri]

how do you connect the php files to wordpress

[pilercodes]

Check the description to see the code editor/gear that I use.