Plugin that Let's You Register Fields and Render HTML Simultaneously

• folosophy

• July 27, 2017 at 6:21 am

Let’s be clear, I love ACF! But my biggest time sink when building themes is having to register fields and create a page layout in two separate places.

In an ideal world, I’d like to just to be able to call a class that both renders the HTML and registers the fields in one step to speed up development.

Essentially, something like this:

$home = new Home();
$home->addSection(‘showcase’);
$home->addSection(‘testimonials’);

I’ve been working on a plugin like this for the past few days, and it’s feeling really complicated.

So, I’m wondering if I should even put the effort in… i.e. are there are any fundamental reasons why this is a bad idea?