Custom fields are the secret to adding and managing extra content data in WordPress, empowering you to build detailed, feature-rich sites tailored to your needs. ACF both simplifies and improves custom field creation and management, providing your WordPress site with structured data, an intuitive way to edit it, and a smoother development process. Join Developer Advocate: Damon Cook for a walk-through of how to get started using ACF through the creation of an automobile listing site. This session will cover: ✅ Installing and activating ACF (free) plugin in WordPress ✅ Creating a Cars custom post type in ACF ✅ Creating custom taxonomies for the Cars custom post type and why you need them ✅ Creating field groups and assigning them key areas of your site ✅ We’ll discuss the critical pieces to establishing a full-proof structured data plan and implementing it with the help of ACF. 🔗 Final demo site: 🔗 GitHub demo codebase: 🔗 00:00 Intro 00:29 WordPress Data Modeling Definitions & Concepts 03:58 [Break] Q&A 05:40 Preview of AutoCarFinder demo site 06:37 Visual chart of Post Types, Taxonomies and Meta Fields 07:33 Local dev site setup overview 10:49 Start creating Car custom post type with ACF 17:45 Create custom taxonomies for Car post type with ACF 25:29 Create Vehicle Details ACF field group with all custom fields 44:43 Demo of final working custom fields output and editing 48:00 Archive car block template preview 48:51 [Break] Q&A 51:25 How to use get_field(), get_fields(), the_field()