ACF Repeater Field to Multiple Posts via Advanced Forms

Screenshot of the advanced form interface example.

Origin Story We have someone who wants to allow people to enter various numbers of items in a particular pattern. We want to keep this as easy as possible and they wanted to avoid having to repeatedly hit submit. First Pass – Gravity Forms Repeater Field I initially thought we could do this in Gravity […]

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Building an ACF-Based Grade Book Plugin in 30 Minutes or Less

An old drawing of an owl.

Origin Story Kathy asked me if I had any grade book plugins that they could use with a faculty development course. The goal was to show faculty where they were in the course. I knew I did not wish to use Learn Dash for any number of reasons– grade book module costs extra, grade book […]

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Starting to Think Through a Mapping Theme with ACF

Footprints leading to the horizon in the snow.

We’re working with Dr. Nicole Turner on a mapping site that will accompany her upcoming book. There’s a lot of specifics there which we’re considering while trying to walk the fine line where what we make is also something we’ll be able to use with other people down the road. We want to generalize but […]

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Accessible ACF-Based Tooltip Dictionary

We have a bunch of world language professors prying at the edges of Pressbooks. One of the requests yesterday was to be able to create a mini-dictionary of target language words at the beginning of sections written in that target language. Mousing over the words would show their English equivalent. The intent is to have […]

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Workshop to Event Workflow in WordPress

Will Wonka asking you to tell him again what WordPress can't do.

I have been doing little other than semi-real web development for three weeks across a number of projects. It’s a level of sustained practice/work that I’ve probably never done before. Who knew that kind of focus could actually result in fairly dramatic improvement? One of the projects is the reconstruction of our ALT Lab department […]

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Unhide Custom Fields Screen Options When Using Advanced Custom Fields

If you use Advanced Custom Fields you may not realize it removes the ‘Custom Fields’ option from your Screen Options view and hides them entirely in the space they normally occupy below your posts/pages. That’s nice occasionally and a pain other times. Today it was a pain. I figured this out one time before but […]

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Custom Fitted WordPress

flickr photo shared by Internet Archive Book Images with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) I’ve been doing a whole lot of WordPress customization lately for really widely varying purposes/people. It has been a lot of fun and it’s an option that I’m not sure has been conveyed well to our faculty. Many times, faculty are […]

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