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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Custom Post Type Templates in WordPress The Portfolio Homepage

Seth Johnson
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Seth Johnson
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Posted by Seth Johnson
Seth Johnson
Courses Plus Student 8,302 Points

Why doesn't Zac cover "the_field();" here? It would be very helpful in here.

the_field(); allows you to connect your custom fields for this post_type. It seems like it would be a good idea to include that info here.

4 Answers

Seth Johnson
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Seth Johnson
Courses Plus Student 8,302 Points
Seth Johnson
Seth Johnson
Courses Plus Student 8,302 Points

I understand that when you are developing a theme for the public marketplace, you want to avoid using the_field(); But, I was trying to abstract the info I needed to use Wordpress as a CMS for my sites.

Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

I would only use the_field if your theme says that it requires ACF to work and you auto install and configure it as part of your theme functionality.

Fivvle Divvle
Fivvle Divvle
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Fivvle Divvle
Fivvle Divvle
928 Points

Just have an extra question to this. If i were to put a theme out on public marketplace, would people have to download the plugin, create custom post types and add it into the portfolio-page.php themselves ?

Seth Johnson
Seth Johnson
Courses Plus Student 8,302 Points
Seth Johnson
Seth Johnson
Courses Plus Student 8,302 Points

Hey Fivvle, Zac has a great answer for this.

"I would only use the_field if your theme says that it requires ACF to work and you auto install and configure it as part of your theme functionality."

He covers why the_field() isn't ideal for themes in the marketplace. But if you were developing a custom wordpress site for a client this is a great way to use WP as a killer (and free) CMS.