ACF – The Smithy

The progressive plan for customizing the WordPress Editor for clientx (sep 2020)

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 TheSmithy

Victor Ramirez talks about the approach here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o66SvY9G1k&t=91s

The plan itself was posted on Twitter. It is a bit old, but it sounds like decent approach

Level 1

Style the editor and core blocks to match the client theme.
Disable custom colors & fonts to keep the client on brand
Disable all core blocks your client doesn’t need per post type. Too many options are confusing. (Optional)

How to move the Yoast SEO Meta Box to the bottom

August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 TheSmithy

Place this in your theme’s functions.php file.

/*-------------------------------------
  Move Yoast to the Bottom
---------------------------------------*/
function yoasttobottom() {
  return 'low';
}
add_filter( 'wpseo_metabox_prio', 'yoasttobottom');

WP Rest API with Custom post types and / Advanced custom fields

February 29, 2016February 29, 2016 TheSmithy

Prerequisites:

Install the WP REST API plugin
Install the plugin ACF to REST API V2
- Note: another plugin ‘ACF to WP API’ didn’t work for me
Install the Chrome plugin Postman

Make it work

Create a Custom post Type
- Set Show in REST API to TRUE
- enter a REST API base slug (need this for your requests)
Create some ACF fields for the custom post type
Create a Custom post
Test the API in Postman:
GET http://localhost/sitename/wp-json/wp/v2/rest-api-base-slug

You should see a json file with acf fields