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Gabriel Nazoa
Gabriel Nazoa

Reputation: 229

Advanced Custom Fields in wordpress

I am making my first steps learning to code. I made some courses on Internet and now I am building a Wordpress theme to continue learning from the experience.

The thing is that I am learning how to install a jquery slider plugin and I see that it's necessary to install advanced custom fields plugin and the repeater plugin that is only available in his pro version ($25) and that's not cool...

Now I would like to know if there is some free good plugin with the same functions of advanced custom fields?

I am just starting my experiments with wordpress to learn everything that I need to start building sites, so I don't have the enough experience to know if it worth to pay the $25 for the advanced custom fields plugin or not.

Do you have some suggestion? It will be something useful in the future? Are there other plugins that you recommends to download even if I have to pay for them?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 361

Answers (1)

Alex MacArthur
Alex MacArthur

Reputation: 2286

There's so little context around what you're using the slider for and how much the site admins would need to update slides, etc., but I have two comments:

  1. Do you need to use that specific slider? You could rig something up with custom post types, hide the editor and metaboxes, leave only a field for an image upload and whatever meta you like, and have the admin user just add a new post for each slide. Generate those posts in the PHP and have the jQuery slider take it from there. If you're just learning code, that might be more of a challenge, though. I just tend to resist paying for things when there are reasonable alternatives out there.

  2. ACF is a worthwhile plugin. If the general context-free question is "Is ACF worth the $25?", the answer is 100% 'yes.' I use it virtually every day and often wonder how I'd make use without it. In your case, if you have other potential use for the project you're on, then yes, I'd say it's worth it. But still, in the simple context of a jQuery slider, I'm hesitant to purchase it just for that.

Upvotes: 3

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