I just purchased ACF pro and I’m trying to do something that I think is pretty basic… In most of the demos they are able to put input boxes side by side using flexible content. In the demo video they have a “Column” field present where they enter in “45%” or whatever they want which gets their two text blocks to appear side by side in the page editor… am I missing something or has this functionality somehow changed
It’s hard to say by reading your explanation.
There are some combination of layout options that will make the field widths not work. Tabs and/or labels aligned left can cause this. There may be other cases as well.
I troubleshot for an hour last night and set everything the exact way it is in the flexible fields demo – the “column” field never appears – is the video an older version or something?
My main goal is to have the backend layout be similar to the front end layout for my client
I’m trying to create 1 row with 4 content groupings so if you take 1 row and split it into 4 components.
I’m able to force a row to take up 25% width but when I create another it stacks underneath it rather than getting added to the right side
TL;DR – I’m trying to create side by side editable fields but “columns” as seen in the videos do not exist
love the plugin otherwise it’s fantastic, I just really want to get this feature working
I don’t know what videos you are referring to, can you provide a link to one of them.
To make “columns” you need to set the wrapper width attribute of the field. For example, if you want to show fields in 4 columns then you’d set the width of each field to 25%.
The videos I’ve been referring to are the ones in the ACF documentation – specifically
The one for flexible fields .
As for setting the wrapper element and then setting each field I’ve tried that and it doesn’t work , it just stacks them
In the video they are using a table layout to create columns.
I understand that , what I’m
saying is even when I create a table layout in a flexible field as they have , there is no “column” field.
Yes, ACF has changed since that video was created. Wrapper Attributes: Width is where you can set the width of each column. If you don’t set widths then they will be automatically equal, or however a table works.
