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Elliot Alderton
11,955 PointsIncorporating Advanced Custom Fields in a theme.
I'm creating a wordpress theme that I would like to go on and sell on wordpress.com. I'm using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to create sections of the theme. How would I distribute the theme without losing the custom fields that I've set up? Many thanks.
3 Answers
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherIf you are trying to sell your theme to wordpress.com, first of all good luck!!! They only tend to work with very experienced and well know theme developers.
Second, if it is for wordpress.com then you can't use plugins like acf.
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherThat said, to do it you will have to look into how to require plugins for a theme, have the user install the Plugin and then have your theme run a script that pushes your field data to the Plugin. 3 step process.
Elliot Alderton
11,955 PointsHi Zac, thanks for your message and just to say your Wordpress course videos have been excellent. Who would be an option to sell through that would allow me to use the acf plugin? Themeforest? And how would I incorporate the plugin in my theme?
I would love to see you do a Workshop video on this and also the following topics. -Security in Wordpress. -SEO in Wordpress.