A Simple Way to Customize Your Site
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This document discusses customizing themes in WordPress using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). It recommends determining the desired customizations, installing and activating the ACF plugin, creating pages and posts, enabling ACF in widgets, adding custom fields and settings, inputting data to the custom fields, adding ACF code to a child theme, and offers to demonstrate the process.
A Simple Way to Customize Your Site
- 1. A SIMPLE WAY TO CUSTOMIZE @liamdempsey Your Site
- 2. Best Theme Ever! … almost WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 3. Now What?!? Curse and swear at the world. Find another theme. Customize the theme we like. WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 4. We’ll customize the theme we like. WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey We’ll Do Just That
- 5. “HOW?”you ask with skepticism. WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 7. Let’s get to know each other a bit. But first … WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 8. Considering this Talk about ACF WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 10. Child Themes Enable us to tweak the look and feel – and functionality – of the parent theme WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 11. As a reminder … All of this is online at liamdempsey.com WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 12. A way to add extra data, or information, to your website – in a way that harnesses the power of WordPress WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey Custom Field
- 13. ACF: The Steps WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 14. Determine the desired customization. Step 1: WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 15. Install and activate the ACF plugin. Step 2: WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 16. Create the pages, posts and post categories within the WordPress Dashboard. Step 3: WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 17. Enable ACF shortcodes in widgets. Step 4: WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 18. Add the custom fields and adjust their settings within the WordPress dashboard. Step 5: WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 19. Add the data to the custom fields via the respective pages and posts. Step 6: WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 20. Add the ACF plugin’s code to your child theme. Step 7: WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 21. Demo Time ... like Hammer Time, but with tighter pants. WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey
- 22. Questions? WordCamp Miami 2017 | @liamdempsey