WordPress Advanced Custom Fields for Beginners - Part One

Welcome to my Advanced Custom Fields tutorial for WordPress.

If you’re not familiar with what Advanced Custom Fields or “ACF” is, then you’ve been missing out.

WordPress, as great and popular as it is as a content management system, has never focused on building a simple system for custom fields - ACF has helped fill this gap.

ACF is, in my opinion, one of the most important plugins you can use as a developer in WordPress.

ACF removes the complexity of adding custom field functionality into your WordPress theme.

If you’ve ever tried creating the functionality of custom fields directly into a plugin or theme, you would know that it is very time consuming. ACF provides you with all of the functionality required for custom fields to display on the admin, and a simple API to display it on the front end of your website using PHP.

So what are custom fields? Well - put simply, they allow you to add custom data to your WordPress website. That data is stored in the database, so you can display it anywhere you want, you can truly build some very customised interfaces VERY easily.

If you’re a web developer and want to provide simple fields for your clients to update their website, ACF is perfect for you.

There are two versions of ACF. A free and a premium version. In this series, I will using the PRO version - however, you can follow along with the FREE version - and if the software helps you, I would definitely recommend purchasing it.

Each video in this series will cover a different field type in ACF - and show you how to implement it as well as different ways it can be used.

[brunovincent]

You are a genius, you made me understand the basic ACF concept and conditionally hide empty fields in 2 minutes. Absolutely brilliant!

[yassinetejjani]

I never integrated from scratch before until I watched your series! you made me fall in love with ACF integration! Thanks and keep doing what you are doing!!

[theman]

You are a wordpress legend. Found u so late. U actually explain the possibilities of acf instead of jumping right into the tutorial. Omg love ur content bro :D

[Allformyequine]

OK so these videos are FANTASTIC! I think these truly could be the missing handbook for using Advanced Custom Fields and even better because you take the time to show 'why' the code is outputting the way it is these are a super way to learn Wordpress PHP! Please keep these going, I've been looking and these are some of the best tutorials for ACF that I have found! Wish I would have found these a long time ago :) GREAT job!!!

[JohannaKlugsberger]

Great tutorial.
Can you explain me, where I do find the php files? Or if I have to create them myself, where and how I can do so.
That's the point where I lost you. Everything else was clear so far.

[gtherat]

Love this series and they way you teach, thanks for doing what you’re doing!

[HasinthaWeragala]

pretty concise and on point. I salute you sire 💚

[hassanalnajjar]

Thank you for this great course. Hope you post more about WordPress

[willugoupordown]

This is what I have been looking for! Thanks so much for posting!

[petruciucur]

Excellent Tutorial ! Don't like to use a theme builder, but working in code is great.

[certdemy]

thanks Dr Digital. is it possible to make repeater field to show a random field each time when clicked on the webpage? thanks

[Vlad-ldcu]

Thank you, direct and simple. Exactly what I needed.

[dominicdeheuer]

I should have learned from Mr Digital in the first place. too bad I have wasted my time and resources on confusing udemy courses 😂.. Thank you sir for your help 🙏🙏🙏

[mdfatah]

Best perfect and exactly what i need. Please make a udemy course

[ryanconcepcion]

This tutorial is great. Helps me a lot on my projects. Thank you

[CpqDrivE]

Hello, can you please tell which extension to vs code are you using to synchronize with server? I tried ftp-sync and it always crashed after about 5 mins... thank you :)

[madfinntech]

Of course, it has to be a subscription I'd happily pay one-time fee.

[KarasCyborg]

Thanks, good intro. Just wish I had a SQL interface to the data.

[rampietstudio]

Hi,
I have a music theme, it has a like button and play button for my music but does not have the cart button to allow me to sell the music. I want to add an add_to_cart button for woocommerce next to those buttons so the link to download the song can be sent to commerce cart when people click it.

I was trying ACF to add customs fields to the Music post type to add that button but I am failing to know how to get link sent to woocommerce cart since this is not woocommerce product post form but music post form from my theme.

Can you help archive this please?

[Europommie]

Love this series, I've learned so much.
I use Wordpress with Elementor Pro. I'm trying to create a site where using ACF an audio file would play on a post.
Any ideas how I could do this??