I haven’t come close to getting this to work either. ACF is the best for fields, and PB is the best in terms of creating layouts. Building a layout builder using ACF alone, while straightforward, yields an adequate UI at best.
From what I understand, you can create a field, and then assign it to a particular registered widget. Then when you add that widget to a widget area, or Page Builder, the ACF fields should appear. I find they do in some cases.
So the workflow for getting ACF and PB to work together would be to register a new widget type for every block element. Icon box, testimonials, etc… Create an ACF field group for each widget type and assign the group to the previously registered widget above.
In your theme, display the widget content using get_field within the Widget’s callback.
I would love to see just one working example of this.
