Hi,
I am migrating my site from an obsolete theme.
As part of the old site’s functionality we have a weekly newsletter which needs to access a set of parameters like “Title”, “Sub-title”, “No of posts”, “Header Image” etc. I had to build the code which generates this in PHP with inline CSS because this goes out via a Mailchimp email and the format is heavily table-based.
I used to use a WP plugin called “Custom Website Data” which is no longer available and this allowed the storage of these parameters, and assigned shortcodes to them. I could then reference these codes in the PHP code which formatted and populated the newsletter.
For example one entry in the Custom Data might be:
Reference Shortcode Output
Subtitle_Text [cwd ref=”Subtitle_Text”] This would be the output of the custom field
In the PHP code I could then use this code as follows:
$sub_title_text = str_replace(“\\”,””,sanitize_text_field(do_shortcode(‘[cwd ref=”Subtitle_Text”]’)));
The key requirement was for the Newsletter Editor, who is non-technical, to be able to easily access and change the Output of the various reference fields via the WP Dashboard.
Since the Custom Web Data plugin is no longer available, I am trying to do a similar thing with ACF but am getting a little stuck. Can anyone please advise whether I can use ACF in this way, and what the best approach might be?
Many thanks in advance.
John
