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Tutorials and in-depth walkthroughs to help you get the most of out WordPress and ACF. Whether you’re customizing your site, building dynamic content, or mastering ACF’s powerful features, our guides have you covered.

Translating ACF Blocks With ACFML for a Multilingual WordPress Site

In today’s connected world, your website serves as your international passport. It enables you to reach and engage with a diverse, global…

3 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With ACF

There’s no doubt ACF has amazing capabilities. It wouldn’t be so widely used in WordPress if it didn’t. In fact, there’s so…

The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Custom Fields

You may already be familiar with Advanced Custom Fields, a popular plugin we develop that makes adding custom fields to your WordPress…

A Super Simple Method for Creating Your Own WordPress Custom Post Types Without a Plugin

WordPress has many strengths, but out of the box it’s somewhat limited in the type of content you can store and how…

How to Build a Business Listing Using ACF Blocks and the Query Loop Block in a Block Theme

Full Site Editing in WordPress is here, and it’s going to change the way you build themes. In this tutorial, I’ll show…

Building Customized WordPress Gutenberg Blocks With the ACF PRO Plugin

This is the first in a new series of case studies dedicated to showing how developers have overcome challenges by using Advanced…

Building a Custom Slider Block in 30 Minutes With ACF

The ACF Blocks feature was first introduced in ACF PRO 5.8. Shortly thereafter, Elliot Condon made a video showing how you could…

A Closer Look at Applying Filter Variations in ACF

WordPress actions and filters are wonderful. They allow plugin, theme and core developers to offer large amounts of customization with very little…

The State of ACF in a Gutenberg World

The big event is finally within sight: WordPress 5.0, featuring the new Gutenberg editor, is coming soon. And all of the emotions…