Wpwatercooler - Weekly Wordpress

Advanced Custom Fields is the topic for todays 30 minute roundtable at the WPwatercooler. Suzette Franck has used this on an art gallery website that had 7 years of data, she made a custom form on the back end to be put into an custom post type. Se Reed asks what is the difference between using custom fields and Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Steve Zenhgut talks about how quicker and easier it is to use Advanced Custom Fields and be able to export the resulting code to be used elsewhere. Chris Lema talks about a project he used this on where he used both the import and the export feature. The CMS he was using had 18 CPT and each had 5 to 10 different fields. He states that you can assign with mapping the various meta boxes and where they will be used. Steve talks about the various addons, they recently purchased the “Repeater” addon and it works well. Chris talks about how he has used this Repeater addon and how it is all stored in Post Meta. Jason Tucker asks how portable the resulting code is and if the plu