Change the order of custom fields in the front-end

• ig-pjc

• February 25, 2014 at 7:50 am

Hi, hope you can help.

For simplicity, my page has been set up with fields in WP admin like so:

custom field 1
content…

custom field 2
content…

custom field 3
content…

Problem – client wants ‘custom field 3’ to appear first (top of the page in the front-end) and wants to rearrange the order of the fields themselves in the future. How can I set this up? The only way I can think of is manually setting the order in the template e.g.

<?php the_field('custom_field_3'); ?> (top of the page)
<?php the_field('custom_field_1'); ?>
<?php the_field('custom_field_2'); ?>

The problem with the code above is that the client cannot rearrange the order themselves… What can I do to make this work?

I look forward to your replies.

• Elliot

• February 25, 2014 at 10:31 am

Hi @ig-pjc

Perhaps you could look into using the repeater or flexible content fields?
These fields provide an interface where the client can re-order blocks of content!

Thanks
E

• ig-pjc

• February 26, 2014 at 1:36 am

Thanks very much Elliot, the repeater does the trick. Amazing plugin by the way 🙂