• berd0029

• in reply to: ACF Blocks issue when made "reusable"
• April 25, 2020 at 7:12 am

I came back to this to try a few other ideas.

This time if the block mode was set as “preview”, even when I clicked the editing pencil icon, I could not edit any of the fields as they were grayed out. Changing the embed mode back to “auto” allows editing of the fields, but weird behavior in the UI where you have to click two or three times to get the save button on the re-usable block to work.

• berd0029

• in reply to: Cannot create Site Options page
• April 25, 2020 at 5:23 am

Not sure where to start with your problem, but remember that options pages have two components.

#1 the code above creates a placeholder page

#2 You have to create a field group and choose to display it on this page

Your fields have to exist on the same wordpress installation as that options page code. Either make sure they are setup in the UI, or export them to php and add them to your functions.php

• berd0029

• in reply to: Gutenberg in the WYSIWYG
• September 6, 2019 at 3:23 am

@hube2

I like where your head is at. I’m in a similar boat – not wanting to be dependent on the default wordpress editor.

Using repeaters and flexible content I’ve created builders that allow me or my clients to build really nice looking pages and blog posts.

In other places where I have pages/ sites that I’ve pre-built, and I want my clients to enter info like a personal photo, bio, email etc I use site options tables, and insert the info wherever necessary.

My issue is that although I can get really nice looking results on the front end, I struggle to get my back end ACF fields to look as clean as other builders.

Thinking forward a few more years, I think it’s really critical, for my clients at least, that the whole editing experience is more or less wysiwyg.

When people see endless commercials for wix style editors, I don’t want my site editing experience to seem a decade behind…

I’m trying to decide if I go all in my ACF page builder and try to make the backend editing look more like the front end results, or if I should try to build custom modules for a builder like Beaver Builder. Either using their global blocks, or possibly continuing to store everything in ACF, but exposing the data into custom beaver builder modules for “front end” editing experience… not even 100% sure that’s even possible.

Maybe a third option is something like what mailchimp does, where you click on a preview and it loads up acf fields to edit in a sidebar. Instead of clicking “add row” in a repeater/ flexible content having a panel where users can click to select a layout. Sounds cool, but would be beyond my current abilities to develop.

I’m curious of your perspective, and if you’ve come across any potential solutions since it doesn’t appear guttenberg will be the answer.

• berd0029

• in reply to: ACF Options page content in wp multisite
• September 5, 2018 at 6:33 am

You can broadcast data stored in ACF custom fields using the Broadcast plugin. I’m not positive if it’ll work in the free version, but the paid version is well worth it for the many added features and excellent support.

Contact the plugin author if you’re having any issues, he is exceptionally helpful: https://broadcast.plainviewplugins.com/contact/