ACF Recipes

Final demo site 👉 acfrecipes.wpengine.com

💥 Slides for this presentation 💥

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Description

A demonstration of using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to:

1. Create a custom post type: Recipe
2. Create a custom taxonomy: Recipe Types (e.g. breakfast, lunch, dinner)
3. Create custom fields group: Cook & Prep Times
4. Create a custom ACF Block: Cook & Prep Times that utilizes the custom fields and is available for the Recipe custom post type
   • Also, register a custom block category: Recipes to put the Cook & Prep Times block under.
5. Create custom block patterns using WP Engine's Pattern Manager
   • Assign the block patterns to the Recipe post type
   • Make it available in the Recipe new post modal for editors
   • Register a custom block pattern category for Recipes
6. Set a custom load & save point for ACF JSON. So we can version control our ACF generated CPT, taxonomy, and field groups directly in our custom plugin: plugins/acf-cooking-recipes/acf-json

Includes:

• WP Engine's Frost theme with patterns automatically generated and saved to the theme's /patterns/ directory. Again, created with Pattern Manager, which also saves media (images) alongside each pattern within the theme!
  • themes/frost/patterns/recipe-full-page-columns.php
  • themes/frost/patterns/recipe-full-page-complex.php
  • themes/frost/patterns/patterns/recipe-full-page-simple.php

The root of this repo represents the wp-content/ directory of your WordPress install.

All of the content used to populate this learning resource site was sourced from SimplyRecipes.com

Requirements

1. ACF PRO 6.1.0-alpha1 – for ACF stuff.

Optional

1. Pattern Manager 0.1.3 – if you want to create and maintain further patterns, but not necessary if you do not.
2. WordPress Beta Tester 3.2.9 – if you want to run the latest WP 6.2 RC2, which was used in the demo, but WP 6.1 will likely work just fine.
3. Gutena Newsletter 1.1.4 – for newsletter block in footer template part, but you can remove the block and do not need it (your preference).

Resources

• What’s new with ACF Blocks in ACF 6
• Branched deploys to WP Engine with GitHub Actions
• GitHub Action for WP Engine Site Deployments
• GitHub Action - Deploy WordPress to WP Engine

Changelog

• March 16, 2023
  • Fixed misspelling of demo site
  • Add 'Requirements' section in README
  • Add lazyrecipes.WordPress.2023-03-16.xml WordPress export of Recipes custom post type
• March 15, 2023 – initial push of repo with ACF Cooking Recipes plugin and Frost theme