well done - if you need it now and don't want to use the alpha or ACF ;) -> in PODS We call it "settings" Page and yes you can create multiple of them - and yes colors where supported from the start … and you don't need a single line of code - you can even configure where it show's up - a separate item or beneath settings or… and you don't need to remember the field name either as the pods integration presents you with all the option ^^
that's easy just create a pods settings page, add a color field select it's form the Background color connection… need to check if BB 2.2 added color connections in more areas… but most of them are already there!
Cool. Thanks for this Peter. Pods seem to be more popular in the BB community, but having started with ACF and Themer I don't really get to explore it much.
Well, ACF is great and with Themer you can do anything you want. If you want full relational control, add the small add-on ACF post-2-post (wordpress.org/plugins/post-2-post-for-acf/) and you have 'it all'. There will always be discussion about the two, also how thet 'act' in the database/filed strucure with storage and so on, but it remains a matter of taste. ACF had for sure the best userinterface in the back-end. Pods could learn something there.
Yeah, I can't see me moving from ACF soon. The user interface is important to me, but mostly it's about keeping my maintenance responsibilities low with the least number of tools. Indeed, once I found the ACF post-2-post there was no clear reason to use anything extra... so far! I'm not exactly going for Enterprise sized builds so data structure is not very high on my list. To me, these things are a bit like how WP was structurally wrong for E-commerce. How WP was a fail for no being a proper CMS and how they were all doomed as they were not built with Ruby on Rails... Fortunately WP has a leader who can predict the future.
As usual, I'm at least one year behind the latest tricks.. Excellent video! Question: How would you show a row of social icons with each one displaying conditionally if keys were set? I'm guessing that would be a text or html module with conditional statements, and not a simple icon group module?
Oh heck Matthew I'm so sorry for the delay. Had some laptop and connection difficulties recently and missed this. I think I used the single icon module as the group one does not have individual connectors for the icons. Probably doing this in a HTML module would be easier then managing individual icon modules in columns. Funny. I did no more with this after the video, but just recently I have been thinking more about putting it to proper use. You may see why later when I start up the video making again... or a year or so later. Thanks mate . I appreciate you taking a look at this.
@@DavidWaumsley no problem! I actually was messing around with html module as well, but realized it probably wasn't worth all the headache. The thinking was about making rows and modules more transferable when using on other sites. Would love if there was a way for the module to pull in the social icons from the customizer settings when using a theme like BB that enables them there.
Off topic question.. :) Hey David does Gutenberg do much of the same stuff that beaver builder does? If so do i really need beaver builder.? was just looking at Gutenberg and it seemed an awful lot like BB. Thanks! Great video. :)
In short - no. Gutenberg may one day be a page builder (even though the project lead seems to say otherwise and that it is not a threat to page builders). If you try Guttenberg you will quickly see you can add different types of content in to blocks, but that will not look the same on the page when you publish. There is no real visual page layout of content or styling like with BB presently. I have disabled Gutenberg with the Classic Editor plugin on all client site and don't expect to change that based on anything I have seen yet.
It does get the blood racing again doesn't it. Typical BB team! I bet somewhere buried in the changelogs is the cure for cancer...maybe even what happens to the other sock... or where did all the teaspoons go...
I have no idea Nathan. If it has a color picker field I am sure it works. I'm struggling to keep up with ACF alone. This video was only really to make sense of the ACF options fields in BB. Hope to look at Pods later.
I understand - my point is when something like this comes out and it reads Beaver did this or that for ACF - i automatically think? Hummm... connectors are just connectors and what makes this specific to ACF - so my need to ask and probe is triggered cause I think more broadly and see it as a way to solve a problem not promote a specific tool - sorry.. But I tend to do this as it benefits all in my opinion to understand the addon or extension and or update is not specific to ACF but to field connections and that is what many are asking in their heads when they read the update/ headlines .
My reply seems to have been lost. I totally understand. I added a note here and on the blog post. It's not my intention to promote one over the other. That said, I do like to share stuff about what I use so I guess I will never quite succeed in that. Funny, I paused my other series on product sites (which you helped with) and I just could not learn how to do the same on all the tools. I kind of forgot that in my excitement over this.
We call it "settings" Page and yes you can create multiple of them - and yes colors where supported from the start … and you don't need a single line of code - you can even configure where it show's up - a separate item or beneath settings or… and you don't need to remember the field name either as the pods integration presents you with all the option ^^
Thanks Bernhard. Great update. I think Didou is going to update his "Easy ACF Connect For Themer" plugin so the names it remembers will work with ACF option fields. I usually remember the names - I just get bored of typing and my own typos.
Mind Blown. I love it when plugins "just work" together.
Hi Robey. What an honour to have you pop by. Thanks for this comment and yes indeed!
well done - if you need it now and don't want to use the alpha or ACF ;) -> in PODS We call it "settings" Page and yes you can create multiple of them - and yes colors where supported from the start … and you don't need a single line of code - you can even configure where it show's up - a separate item or beneath settings or…
and you don't need to remember the field name either as the pods integration presents you with all the option ^^
Sounds great. How to you do this without the Apha version?
that's easy just create a pods settings page, add a color field select it's form the Background color connection… need to check if BB 2.2 added color connections in more areas… but most of them are already there!
I have not seen any Themer color connectors in 2.1. Only in 2.2
Yes Pods, also has an options page possibility
Cool. Thanks for this Peter. Pods seem to be more popular in the BB community, but having started with ACF and Themer I don't really get to explore it much.
Well, ACF is great and with Themer you can do anything you want. If you want full relational control, add the small add-on ACF post-2-post (wordpress.org/plugins/post-2-post-for-acf/) and you have 'it all'.
There will always be discussion about the two, also how thet 'act' in the database/filed strucure with storage and so on, but it remains a matter of taste. ACF had for sure the best userinterface in the back-end. Pods could learn something there.
Yeah, I can't see me moving from ACF soon. The user interface is important to me, but mostly it's about keeping my maintenance responsibilities low with the least number of tools. Indeed, once I found the ACF post-2-post there was no clear reason to use anything extra... so far!
I'm not exactly going for Enterprise sized builds so data structure is not very high on my list. To me, these things are a bit like how WP was structurally wrong for E-commerce. How WP was a fail for no being a proper CMS and how they were all doomed as they were not built with Ruby on Rails... Fortunately WP has a leader who can predict the future.
Simply put - genius. Really cool implementation of this!!
Too Kind :-)
As usual, I'm at least one year behind the latest tricks.. Excellent video! Question: How would you show a row of social icons with each one displaying conditionally if keys were set? I'm guessing that would be a text or html module with conditional statements, and not a simple icon group module?
Oh heck Matthew I'm so sorry for the delay. Had some laptop and connection difficulties recently and missed this.
I think I used the single icon module as the group one does not have individual connectors for the icons. Probably doing this in a HTML module would be easier then managing individual icon modules in columns.
Funny. I did no more with this after the video, but just recently I have been thinking more about putting it to proper use. You may see why later when I start up the video making again... or a year or so later. Thanks mate . I appreciate you taking a look at this.
@@DavidWaumsley no problem! I actually was messing around with html module as well, but realized it probably wasn't worth all the headache. The thinking was about making rows and modules more transferable when using on other sites. Would love if there was a way for the module to pull in the social icons from the customizer settings when using a theme like BB that enables them there.
Off topic question.. :) Hey David does Gutenberg do much of the same stuff that beaver builder does? If so do i really need beaver builder.? was just looking at Gutenberg and it seemed an awful lot like BB. Thanks! Great video. :)
In short - no. Gutenberg may one day be a page builder (even though the project lead seems to say otherwise and that it is not a threat to page builders).
If you try Guttenberg you will quickly see you can add different types of content in to blocks, but that will not look the same on the page when you publish. There is no real visual page layout of content or styling like with BB presently.
I have disabled Gutenberg with the Classic Editor plugin on all client site and don't expect to change that based on anything I have seen yet.
ok awesome! THANKS David ! ;)
Brilliant
It does get the blood racing again doesn't it. Typical BB team! I bet somewhere buried in the changelogs is the cure for cancer...maybe even what happens to the other sock... or where did all the teaspoons go...
Thumbs up from me... again ;-)
Cheers Hugues :-)
pods does this as well - correct? except for repeater field...
I have no idea Nathan. If it has a color picker field I am sure it works. I'm struggling to keep up with ACF alone. This video was only really to make sense of the ACF options fields in BB. Hope to look at Pods later.
I understand - my point is when something like this comes out and it reads Beaver did this or that for ACF - i automatically think? Hummm... connectors are just connectors and what makes this specific to ACF - so my need to ask and probe is triggered cause I think more broadly and see it as a way to solve a problem not promote a specific tool - sorry.. But I tend to do this as it benefits all in my opinion to understand the addon or extension and or update is not specific to ACF but to field connections and that is what many are asking in their heads when they read the update/ headlines
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My reply seems to have been lost. I totally understand. I added a note here and on the blog post. It's not my intention to promote one over the other. That said, I do like to share stuff about what I use so I guess I will never quite succeed in that.
Funny, I paused my other series on product sites (which you helped with) and I just could not learn how to do the same on all the tools. I kind of forgot that in my excitement over this.
We call it "settings" Page and yes you can create multiple of them - and yes colors where supported from the start … and you don't need a single line of code - you can even configure where it show's up - a separate item or beneath settings or…
and you don't need to remember the field name either as the pods integration presents you with all the option ^^
Thanks Bernhard. Great update.
I think Didou is going to update his "Easy ACF Connect For Themer" plugin so the names it remembers will work with ACF option fields. I usually remember the names - I just get bored of typing and my own typos.