Advanced Advanced Custom Fields

Jared Novack

@jaredNova

Editors are users too!

Real-World ACF

Case Study:

Harvard Law Review

Let's start with the basics

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Relationship Field

I need custom fields, but only sometimes

Conditionals

Put custom fields on non-post objects

Categories, Tags, Users and more

Case Study:

Upstatement.com

I want custom fields
on a specific page

Page-Level Targeting

Repeater Field

The killer new ACF5 feature

Fields are configuration, not content

ACF (can) store your fields as JSON instead of in the database

Yay Git!

Case Study:

Random House

15,000 titles per year

Manage Many items,
Many types of items

Flexible Content Field

/* mytheme/functions.php */
add_filter( 'acf/load_field/key=field_53dcf25246f92', function($field) {
	$posts = get_posts('post_type=post');
	foreach($posts as $post) {
		$field['choices'][$post->post_name] = $post->post_title;
	}
	return $field;
});
					

Big Scary Code Thing

Make your own fields!

THE END

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Jared Novack

http://timber.upstatement.com