It is a bit of an odd one. The site was only built this year and it has both the free Elemntor and Pro versions installed.
I have inherited three sites that are built in the same way, mostly with Elementor and then the footer is done with ACF Pro. I can see a couple of functions added to the WordPress editor that are very specific to each site so I guess that is where ACF comes into its own. But I cannot see why it would have been used for the footer.
Anyway, thanks to your help I am a lot wiser now. It is really appreciated.
Thanks again, John. The site is using ACF Pro and Elementor. The site can be edited with Elementor apart from the footer which for whatever reason does not exist anywhere other than as group fields in ACF and the footer.php file.
I did get the link in the footer by editing the footer.php so, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Thanks, John. That cleared that one up for me. But what I meant was that I didn’t want to edit the core site/theme PHP files directly.
I can’t imagine why anyone would build a theme using ACF. It seems like a very clunky way to build a theme, unless of course you know ACF like the back of your hand. I am wondering if it was done specifically that way in order to prevent the customer from using the theme for another site.
Anyway, thanks for your help. You have given me some things to think about.
Ahh, ok I had already looked in the footer.php but I didn’t really want to be editing core files. I thought the footer had been created with ACF, although I can’t see a sensible reason why that would be. It is certainly an odd choice.
It is looking like I will need to find another solution to add this link.
Going slightly off-topic for a moment. Do you know why deactivating ACF would break the whole site? If I deactivate the plugin I lose everything except a single bar across the top of the page. Everything else is blank white.
