Once again I have the great privilege of being selected to speak at WordCamp Kansas City 2018. This will be my 5th consecutive year as a speaker.
My topic this year is “Advanced Custom Fields for Coders“. At past WordCamps the ACF talks have always been for non-coders. ACF is a great plugin for everyone to extend their web sites, but if you are a coder you can really do some amazing things. I’ve only got roughly 45 to 50 minutes and a lot to cover, so I will assume those attending have used ACF previously and know at least some rudimentary PHP coding a WordPress plugin development. I’m not going to go into any detail on exactly what ACF is or demonstrate any of the usual stuff.
What I plan to cover is:
- Extending ACF with Read Only Fields
- Advanced field validation
- Using ACF forms on the front end of your web site
- ACF and the REST API
This will be a live demonstration and not a slide-show presentation. I will be using ACF:Pro, but my code will work with the free version as well.
Download links:
- Advanced Custom Fields – https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/
- Advanced Custom Fields: Field Snitch – https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields-field-snitch/
- ACF to REST API – https://wordpress.org/plugins/acf-to-rest-api/
- ACF Option Pages – https://wordpress.org/plugins/acf-option-pages/
This is a great article on storing Custom Field Data in a custom table instead of Post Meta which can speed things up by up to 30 times when accessing data.
https://awesomeacf.com/storing-acf-data-custom-database-tables/
