PB101: L14 - Proper Dynamic Content Management in WordPress (CPTs, Custom Fields, Loops, & More)

Do you stuff everything into the Posts and Pages areas in WordPress as if it's the junk drawer in your grandfather's tool shed?
Do you insert content manually and statically across websites like an absolute madman?
When people mention repeaters and query loops, does your brain immediately think, "I can probably do that with CMD + V?"
GASP!
🚔 FELONIOUS BEHAVIOR! 🚔
My friends, static web development is an act of violence and we all must work together to put an end to this reign of terror.
Transitioning to DYNAMIC content on the websites you build is one of the single-most essential upgrades you can make to your workflow.
I'm talking about using Custom Post Types, Custom Fields, Custom Taxonomies, Relationships, Query Loops, and more.
In this lesson, you'll learn why dynamic content management is critical and how to implement it quickly and easily.
Invest the hour, practice what you learn, and start building better. This is one of the biggest steps you can take on your journey from chump to champ.
** TOOLS MENTIONED IN THIS LESSON **
Metabox AIO - geni.us/t3UBIYH
Advanced Custom Fields - geni.us/YYhEP
DISCLAIMER: While I used Metabox in this lesson and have been using Metabox for a long while now, I'm in the process of switching my personal and agency workflow back over to ACF, given the upgrades they've made that solve my previous criticisms. I think you can use whichever one you prefer, but I wanted to make my personal decisions clear.
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🔥 AutomaticCSS (ACSS) - automaticcss.com
🔥 Frames - getframes.io
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[@PanoNick-80085]

Kevin, I will never forget the impact your educational style has had on my...CONFIDENCE

[@Gearyco]

💪🏻

[@ReubenHochstetler]

When I switched from posts and pages to CPTs I changed my organization and effectiveness as a pro developer. Thanks Kevin.

[@Gearyco]

Yes!

[@mr.matt.eastwood]

Kevin. Dude. I was gonna say "you're setting new standards with this class" because frankly, this is exactly the kind of expert training I've been wishing for but never could find. Somebody in the IC said the other day they were feeling like they were figuring this stuff out all on their own before they discovered your content, and I couldn't agree more. Our industry is full of lateral entrants. I'm convinced there's many more of us who wanna do this RIGHT than the Elementors and Divis of the world would have us believe. We just need the right education! Thing is, you're not "setting new standards". You're teching how it's DONE. Nothing here is new, but damn is it golden and so unique and needed these days. I'm sharing this course far and wide.

[@Gearyco]

🙌🙌🙌

[@BGdev305]

expert training? all of this is thee utmost beginner aspects of building with wordpress.

[@Gearyco]

@@BGdev305 pffff. 🤡 alert!

[@ocbroadband]

@@Gearyco There's always trolls with nothing better to do. 🙄

[@Gearyco]

@@ocbroadband yup!

[@IssaKhlief]

I started using JetEngine two years ago to create CPT, Taxonomies, and relations...etc and never looked back. Fantastic tutorial

[@bonhomie.studio]

I switched from static page creation to dynamic page creation using custom post types and custom fields about 4 or 5 years ago and it changed my life. I learned it back then from Paul Charlton. So, useful, not to mention it allowed my clients to add content to their website without having to worry at all about design or have to hire a developer to add basic content updates in the page builder. They are so happy about that. It is so powerful. As usual, thank you for this. Your trainings are going to up the quality of work in our industry for people who do page building professionally.

[@laurelbraun9428]

As a UI designer just getting into WordPress, this is life changing! Your entire course is so incredibly helpful. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@Gearyco]

Love to see UI designers wanting to do things right and not just slap a site together after they’re done designing it! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@laurelbraun9428]

@@Gearyco Thanks for the encouragement! I originally got into HTML and CSS because I wanted to be able to design for development better, and I enjoyed it so much that I started to look into doing low-code development myself 😄 Your course is giving me the confidence and skills to do it!

[@Manos-G]

Clear, thorough, spot on, excellent! Up until now, I was building websites "the old way" and it was killing me! A few days ago I approached my son's Jujitsu teacher and offered him to update his old martial arts school website. At our discovery meeting, he asked me to build an online directory for his students and instructors including belt rank with date of acquisition, dates of participation in events and championships with their locations and organizers, the wins of each athlete, their favorite martial arts teacher, etc. It was clear that a website like this can't be built statically and it would be certain that he would never be able to use it and update it. Enter Custom Post Types! What a relief! Thank you for the time and the effort you put in your videos Kevin! It really helps a lot of people, including myself. P.S. Is it a coincidence that your video also was on martial arts? Maybe, but I don't think so :)

[@HollyPattison]

I'm working with a developer to update my non-profit's WP website, and they've encouraged me to think about dynamic content management. It's been a slow evolution for me to wrap my head around these concepts but your clear explanations are helping me to understand and I'm beginning to see and get excited about new possibilities for organizing our content. Thank you!

[@katewhelan2407]

Love this! As a newbie, thank god I found you when I did! I kept hearing the term CPT thrown around but hadn't had a chance to dive in yet, really appreciate how clearly you explain both how to set it all up, and why it's all so important - really feel like I'm learning best practice from the start and cannot thank you enough!!

[@Gearyco]

Glad it was helpful!

[@quickend01]

I have been stuck on this subject for weeks now, just could not wrap my mind around it. This lesson just bridged countless gaps. With confidence boosted, I am hyped to practice getting it right for a change - Thanks Again!

[@Gearyco]

Excellent!

[@TheDesiMarketer]

Your teaching style is amazing. Thank you, Kevin. I am eagerly waiting for the next lesson of PB101!

[@nemanjapuhalo4612]

Yeah, this is next-level stuff. I was organizing stuff mostly in Posts and Categories and querying it in GenerateBlocks. Which is probably 10% of what's doable with what you showed here.

[@AbdulRahman-wj9fw]

Literally feel myself becoming a non-chump with every video in this series. You are the best teacher Kevin. I've started using CPT's a while back and just started using it for website banner placements as well. Its waaay better than the old school way. Thanks for teaching without holding back, may you be bless with more and more erfective knowledge.

[@Gearyco]

🙌

[@RonnieMbugua]

This is so efficient!!! I can’t imagine how much time I’ve wasted making simple changes. Thank you!

[@pushkardamle4112]

Thanks for teaching (over and over) how to do web design the right way. Bringing sanity to the web design process!

[@Gearyco]

You're very welcome!

[@jybevox]

Again. A huge thanks for this serie of videos!

[@emmanuelAumsuri]

Hi Kelvin, I'm from Tanzania in East Africa and wanted to say thanks for this awesome video I very rare posting Comments but I do it for this one. Your presentation was really professional and informative. Please keep posting more advanced topics - your work is making a real difference all over the world. Thanks again!

[@daviddemastus]

Can't go back after switching to this method! Makes things so flexible and easy to maintain.

[@kevinnicholson2383]

Really clear, tangible tutorial - and great comparison to a drawer, although, now every time I open up our kitchen 'cram it all in junk' drawer… I think of this! :)

[@OceanLlamaMedia]

This is such an amazing tutorial. Made my first site and made a few custom posts but knew I wasn't using it right. Well looks like I should have made the site way different after seeing this....but like you said going forward this looks like it's so much better. Thank you for explaining this so well.

[@Gearyco]

Glad it helped!

[@NotAddicted1981]

I can't wait to get a new customer and start implementing what you are teaching. I have been doing it the old way. Currently I am practising what you are teaching to upgrade two of my own sites. Thank you for the amazing content

[@Gearyco]

Best of luck!

[@africanhustle01]

Another slam dunk of an episode. I've always wondered what Custom Fields are since I come across them all the time but never got a good intro until now.

[@fuadsyawal7461]

Junk drawer. Exactly the first time I built a website is full of those. I actually tried to to find resources about how to make website properly, but there was no mention about custom post type as best practice. What they usually tell you is to plan ahead the pages and posts using this app or that app, or the difference between the posts and pages and how to utilize them well. I only learned recently about CPT in Bricks group and it opened my eyes how it should be the way you utilize wordpress website. This lesson is really comprehensive in one package. If you google about this, you need to go to different websites and different posts which is annoying and distracting. Thanks to you Kevin Geary for creating this invaluable video!

[@Gearyco]

❤️

[@DontPaws]

You really hit the nail on the head with the hating my life when coming to find out about Dynamic Queries yesterday. I was dreading having to go and fix all my clients sites. However, I will take your lesson and just do better going forward. Thank you so much, I’m subscribed and I’m sure I’ll find a need for the inner circle.

[@eucalyptech]

Dynamic content changed my way of working when you made me discovered all the possibilities with your previous videos. Thank you so much Kevin !

[@Gearyco]

Great to hear!

[@ZachariahWiedeman]

I've mostly always been using dynamic content management in WP - I've just been implementing it by purchasing a custom theme and plugins that had all the post types and fields I needed already - I never realized how easy it could be to set all this up on my own. This not only is going to save me a ton of money - its going to give me super powers!

[@tristanabais1044]

Yes. This is the best approach if you want to turn over a website to its owner who wish to maintain the content. We've been using this method along with white label cms plugin to make it so much easier for the end user to update web content.

[@ukukudu]

Amazing. Just made my first Custom Fields and Query Loops. Game changer ❤

[@alexf2525]

I did exactly the wrong way yesterday and was quite happy, glad to have been shown the way lol

[@chrisparky]

Great Video, I was doing it the old way but then I'm new to this ! I've since changed after watching some of Kevin's and WPTuts videos about dynamic data. Great resources thanks Kevin.

[@ted-e-baer]

Another informative video. Just got back this week and was a pleasure to watch this, even though I am familiar with the subject. Gives one confidence that they are doing things in alignment with others out there.

[@goannacs6861]

Now I finally know what people are talking about in Facebook Groups. This is awesome!

[@davidwalls2304]

Great lesson Kevin. I've been using CPTs for 3-4 years now primarily for events. After watching your other CPT video, I'm branching out to additional CPT areas as needed (reviews, team members, services, locations, etc.). For some reason, taxonomies have always been a bit challenging for me but this video finally made things clear. Sometimes the queries can be a bit complicated when I'm trying to query and sort by dates (future, past, date field types, etc.). I found your video on the proper way to create cards with BEM to be very helpful and look forward to what you will reveal in the upcoming lessons.

[@comartse]

Excellent and engaging lesson. Thank you so much! It reminded me of using ACF on some sites I have produced before. Very stimulating!

[@elevateyourcreativeness]

Solid video walkthrough Kevin. Thank you!

[@simonkerridge]

Again...brilliant! Although I knew the basics of dynamic data, this video clarified some aspects. I look forward to you expanding upon this, especially with templating and filtering (facets). Your videos have also made me appreciate the semantics and accessibility aspects of web design, which I didn't do before.

[@unclelukedigitals]

Wow, I have been doing everything the wrong way. Thank you so much Kevin

[@seangolding4324]

Can't wait for the templating lesson. I was just working on a build which made me resort to some really chump like behaviour. Imagine a single service template, with a dynamic header and a sidebar. I added a "post content" widget for the unique content. I had to call this from Bricks because each page needed more control than Gutenberg offered, as page content varied and needed to keep ACSS styling on buttons etc. Another challenge was for the post content widget, using sections within the editor, and having to remove l/r padding, plus using blocks instead of containers, as containers destroyed the content area and pushed the sidebar off the page (set at 1366px).

[@CreativeStake]

I was sentenced in your previous Video 😅 But if you’re Teaching in Jail. It’s a happy sentence. Only ever made a lot of 4-10 page websites. Things are changing, found you at the right time. Started using CPT, but struggled a lot going the trial and error route. Saw a bunch of other videos, all of them were just something. You my Prof 👨‍🏫 are the Champ Educator. Thank You 🙏 Bow 🙇‍♂️

[@Gearyco]

🙏

[@gashumba888]

i do not use Bricks, nor do I use Meta Box, but Kevin, you're a genius! Amazing teaching skills. I use Oxygen and ACF and I truly appreciate this class as I've been struggling to make complex custom fields structures.

[@Gearyco]

🙏

[@danstevens1974]

Great video. TIP: I've found installing the Classic Editor plugin gives a cleaner view when adding and editing custom posts. I often give my clients access to Custom Posts - better for them to be using the Classic editor rather than the default Gutenberg editor.

[@Arvoisa]

I like the markup of gutenberg editor so usually we leave it on and use it for content and acf for extra fields. Also there is plugin for acf that adds new "block field".

[@clemtw]

OMG!!! With this, I've just upgraded to at least a half-chump to say the least Thanks Kevin 💪

[@Gearyco]

Boom!

[@AdhamMaher]

Yes, you're right Kevin. I don't want to touch or manage any website, I built before this course :D lol

[@karengreene9922]

Thank you for this video! I first started using CPTs, custom fields, and queries about 3 years ago. I've been using Toolset, because it is a complete set of no code tools integrated with blocks. I'm moving away from Toolset, since they paused development for 18 months and aren't sure what they will do at the end of that time. I've been looking for options for the last year - I have tried Pods, ACF, Metabox, and ACPT, and have been using GeneratePress as a theme. I kept running into roadblocks on complex queries, especially queries using relationships, and anything involving facets and filters. When I found Bricks, I was super excited about how the queries work. And recently I acquired an LTD for CubeWP. I'm currently working on rebuilding 7 sites, the last I have that are using Toolset, using Bricks and CubeWP. It's so much better than what I had been doing, and your videos - this series, as well as your other Bricks videos - have helped my quickly get up to speed and improve my skills.

[@Gearyco]

🙏

[@Smnthaas]

My god Kevin, every frustration I had before officially belong to the past! 🎉

[@Gearyco]

Love to hear it!

[@rickdugmore]

Extraordinary

[@justinsideris]

Hey Kevin, I have a suggestion for a follow-up video where we’ve thrown some ideas for more complicated querying/cpt situations? Even just for Inner Circle perhaps? PB102?

[@Gearyco]

I've done many in the Inner Circle already and more to come.

[@deskman]

I've been using ACF since 2013, but life has become so much easier in the page-builder era. While adding the PHP code to the template page was always a bit cumbersome (I'm not very code-savvy), so it took a lot of time to develop a site. Bricks integration with custom fields makes me fly.

[@Gearyco]

Yep!

[@techiesreviews]

I have been doing this for years, it's just an easier and cleaner way to maintain. Even a year after posting your video, it provides value. Great job! When looking at Dynamic data, you are not far from decoupling data from the design, as a CMS was like back in the day. Would this still work today with visual builders, and how would you approach that in WordPress. Or would you say, don't go that route at all, unless you are willing to develop things.

[@Gearyco]

Dynamic data makes this possible

[@techiesreviews]

​​ @Gearyco , would it make sense to do so with all the visual builders available and the sheer number of people creating websites? I don't think so in most cases, depending on what information will be reusable and what information will only be used in one place. How even would this work, setting up conditional repeaters with all fields for each section and media separate (I am getting '90s vibes already ms Access anyone?)

[@Jessica-ld4bs]

Man, I'm only halfway through this lesson and I already want to go back and fix every site I've ever done.

[@Gearyco]

Common side effect!

[@sinchro]

Perfect! Thank you.

[@nikunjgajjar9814]

Awesome Video! Thanks Kevin!

[@knuterockknee]

ACF now has everything in one plugin.. The free version is amazing. Either way you cant lose

[@jnslzr]

This is one of the most important topics, thank you fur the clear explanations! Still trying to achieve the bi-directional relationship for free though = )

[@jnslzr]

nvm free acf does it now = )

[@Yusuf.Sidat.]

learned soo much thanks

[@GavinDavidson]

Excellent, thank you.

[@tjveach]

Very well done!….mostly old way..but now, I have a few restaurants with menus….

[@davidnickson5043]

I hate and love you at the same time, now I want to update all my previous websites 😭

[@Gearyco]

Haha always

[@dahunsi]

Great presentation Kevin. Loving every minute of it. I may have a question or 2 later.

[@Gearyco]

Fire away!

[@Gojiyaravi]

Amazing Lecture 🤩.

[@SamFrysteen]

All stuff I already do... but always great to get some additional tips and way of looking at things through your eyes. And I know you mentioned not using Admin Cols Pro on purpose, but was frustrating watching the way you had to add feat images and descriptions the old school way 🤪 instead of inline editing in the class list.

[@Gearyco]

Yep, painful

[@Qartaboun]

That was amazing! Question. Do I need to worry about all those "pages" that are created every time you create Custom Post? You have many "pages" (URLs) being generated for "empty" content that is being referenced by 1 page as a query, so what happens to all the custom posts not being used. I guess from a crawling and seo perspective, I worry because all those posts have "empty" content on the front end. Hope this question makes sense.

[@Gearyco]

Not sure what you mean. Can you give an example?

[@VascoDanielBaiao]

If it's a product for sell will it be also a good approach storing it has a woo product separating by categories? Or is it always better use my own CPT? Great class and content, as usual!

[@Aktiff.B]

I'm a chump. Just doing a website for tattoo studio that is located in three towns. It has 12 tattoo artists, some of them move between two of them a their boss even among all free of them. Too bad I watched your video too late. Next time I will use to for sure. Can't even imagine how much time this would have saved me.

[@martinboisclair4104]

Good video :) - Would you be able to give a training course on how to set up attibutes in the HTML structure to create SEO Schemas? I've found some training, but it's always on FAQs and there are very few of them, maybe for a service page or a team page . Do you have any training on this subject?

[@Gearyco]

Maybe!

[@danieldk9433]

Great lesson! Just quick question: 56:08 how can I set limit on the text? 🙏

[@Gearyco]

{shortcode:20} -- add the ":20" part and change the number to whatever limit you want.

[@urbannerdz]

Dope lesson! Been doing this using Pods with Elementor and its way harder!!! Making the switch to Bricks!

[@Gearyco]

💪🏻

[@DavidCmono]

Great video Kevin! You mentioned limiting the number of characters to be shown in the description element, quick question - can that value be tokenized as a variable so you could change the description length across the board? Hope that makes sense!

[@Gearyco]

Don’t think so :/

[@DavidCmono]

@@Gearyco You're correct, just tried it 😞

[@visualmodo]

Really good work!

[@TheSamGames]

nice one. loved it

[@ericgauvin7681]

This is the way to go. Thanks for the demo. Great enthusiasm!

[@docelot7033]

Hey Kevin. What is your opinion on JetEngine or Crocoblock plugins in general? They are very competitive on the pricing and with JetEngine you also get a "full suite" like Relations, query builder and all that jazz. Would love to hear what you think.

[@Gearyco]

They don’t integrate with as much stuff, so I’ve never used them.

[@ChristinaMcKay]

​@@Gearycomost of the Croco plugins integrate well with Bricks already including JetEngine, JetFormbuilder etc. and more support is coming quickly. I used Meta Boxes but JetEngine has more options. Btw you mentioned ACF can't generate CPT. That has changed a few months back, so you don't need another Plugin anymore. But ACF still can't keep up with JetEngine. The latter gives us CCTs in addition, kind of the same like CPT but the content is stored in a separate DB table. That doesn't matter in most of the cases but on large projects that speeds up the queries. Crocoblock has the Freelancer plan for around 750 dollar, 500 projects lifetime support which is more than enough for me, but they also offer a lifetime plan for unlimited projects. And of course yearly plans. I am not affiliated with them but can really recommend them. Maybe try it.

[@loukaskouros2582]

Very good content and explanation. Is possible to show hover with transitions on cards? Thank you!

[@Gearyco]

I’ve shown many times. Search for cards on my channel

[@kareem2928]

Thank you Kevin! If you one day decided to switch from MB to ACF, Please explain why.

[@andrew_anzhu]

According to what he said, he kind of already decided to switch to ACF. Reason is he prefers the UI of ACF, while ACF and Metabox provide the same functionality he needs.

[@kareem2928]

@@andrew_anzhu If it comes to ACF UI, in this regard it is subjective, Otherwise, he needs to clarify to the community, MB is still better in terms of functionality. UI for me is acceptable.

[@andrew_anzhu]

@@kareem2928 yes, Metabox still has some advanced features, which are for high-end large-scale project needs. Common users and projects do not need them. Advanced developers who must use Metabox know what they need and do not need Kevin's guidance.

[@imanol4468]

@@kareem2928 Meta Box is lighter and have more tools. But what I like of ACF is that you can use the free version and when project scale add the Pro stuff. But when using MB you have to go for PRO even if it's just to add a couple of CPT and Taxonomies, and is overkill for small projects.

[@JirehTorres]

Amazing course Kevin! One question. When I add a background color to my section or container, it covers the card's image background as well. How do I approach this properly? Thank you!

[@Gearyco]

Have a link?

[@JirehTorres]

@@Gearyco Yes, I've pasted the link in this comment section a few times but it seems like my comment is being deleted.

[@JamesJosephFinn]

You're doing God's work sir! Stay strong.

[@Gearyco]

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@curtismorrow4537]

Inner Circle, here I come!

[@kickinapps6703]

Hey Kev - Great and Helpful Video as always, thanks! Hoping you can help.... I have LTD of ACF Pro and building out a platform with CPTs and Custom Fields - but I'm looking for a way to bulk upload hundreds or thousands of Custom Posts with Custom Fields at one time. I know there are a bunch of plugins that include this - but looking for a no-bloat solution (don't really need all the other stuff). Should I just figure out a code snippet or do you have a recommendation?

[@Gearyco]

Not sure ... haven't ever had to do that :/

[@Gearyco]

Try WP All Import

[@martinboisclair4104]

QUESTION - Sometime, I add taxonomy on page with Metabox you said we can't do that. Know I use CPT like you said but some time I add taxonomy on page. It's bad to do that?

[@Gearyco]

As far as I know, it doesn't work in WordPress.

[@praveensharma5962]

I was thinking if you put these lectures on Netflix....at least Half of its viewers will learn Web design without even realizing that they don't have to....That's how much easy it is to grasp and watch your hour long tuts bro....

[@Gearyco]

I don’t know if Netflix will sign me 🤷‍♂️

[@praveensharma5962]

@@Gearyco That might be the "Bev" talking not the "King of Dommies" ....😁😁

[@ninanessel3512]

QUESTION: You mentioned the cheat code at 46:50min in a blueprint video. Which video do you mean? The 2023 plugin blueprint or the bricks site blueprint, i watched through both in the metabox chapter but couldn't find the cheatcode you mentioned. Would be awesome if you could tell me how to implement it faster or link to the video with timecode. Thank you. by the way this series is so valuable to me!

[@Gearyco]

Admin Columns Pro

[@CS-Pro-Web]

Hi Kevin, thanks for these great videos 👌 Does this mean we shouldn't use WordPress categories? And if not, what should we use WordPress categories for?

[@AmandaLucaseu]

I’d use them for categorising standard blogs - eg product news or staff news for example

[@Gearyco]

Use them for blog post categorization

[@maayanzilberberg2523]

Hello Kevin, Great tutorial, Which is better, in your opinion, ACF or JetEngine by Crocoblock?

[@Gearyco]

I’ve only used ACF and Metabox. ACF is the standard.

[@maayanzilberberg2523]

Thank you!@@Gearyco

[@VictorPaul-ty5ih]

This is exclusive ❤

[@VictorPaul-ty5ih]

Does KZbin contain all the archive of your tutorials on WordPress? I'll like to access them all to take myself to the next level in website development.

[@behnamashouri2449]

Hi Kevin. Thanks for videos sorry for my bad english. In addition to Custom Post Type, Jet Engine has another feature called Custom Content Type (CCT). They say the difference between CCT and CPT is that CCT allows you to create a separate table in the WordPress database to store its fields. And this causes that all the data of each custom content type is stored as a separate row in a database, so there's no need to retrieve any data from other DB tables or rows. But when we create CPT, all the content is stored in the wordpress default tables, wp_posts and wp_postmeta. This causes the loading time to increase in websites with a large number of CPTs. My question, in the ACF plugin, when we create a CPT, the new CPT stores its data in the default WordPress wp_posts and wp_postmeta database table? or it creates a separate table in the database like CCT in Jet Engine? If not, is there any option in the ACF settings to create a separate table for custom post types in the database like cct in het engine? Thanks

[@Gearyco]

ACF doesn’t have that option. But it’s really not all that big of a deal.

[@behnamashouri2449]

@@GearycoThank you

[@osvaldoodon]

Great Lesson, thanks. What are your thoughts about ACPT and JetEngine?

[@Gearyco]

Haven’t looked at them. They don’t integrate with as much stuff

[@web-atelier]

​@@GearycoJetengine have all stuff and more.

[@djs964]

Kevin, you have a time-sensitive “Busy Block” calendar notification in the top right corner. You forgot to activate the macOS Do Not Disturb mode.

[@Gearyco]

I know. I forget one thing every video.

[@raziel8799]

Have you tried Pods? I don't have a problem paying money for good plugins as long as they improve my workflow but Pods seems to have all the functions while being free, so I'm asking myself why I should buy Metabox or ACF?

[@Gearyco]

Free plugins are a bad thing. Pods doesn’t integrate with nearly as much stuff

[@michaelwinanditya3601]

Hi Kev, when do you think a custom taxonomy is not enough and need to change/upgrade it to cpt? Based on your example in this lesson, I thought "location" could be custom taxonomy, since custom field could also be added to it. When "location" is a taxonomy, it's already have bi-directional relationship by default when it's attached to any post, no? I think the ability to decide when to go to taxonomy route vs cpt route is also important process, and sometimes, this is also make me stuck at some point.

[@karengreene9922]

I've been stuck on this same decision loop in relationship to a project! For me, the answer came down to whether or not there's content that needs to be displayed publicly on the frontend. In this video, Kevin didn't build out Custom Fields for Locations, but he talked about doing so - adding an address, a link to a Google My Business page for each location, etc. So there's content related to the Location, not just the name of the location. Content = CPT. If the only thing that needed to be displayed on the front end is the Location Name, and no other information about the Location, then it's time to use a Taxonomy.

[@Gearyco]

Correct

[@michaelwinanditya3601]

​@@karengreene9922 My goodness! Your answer gave me another perspective. We are able to display & query taxonomy on frontend if there is a template created (archive based on tax for example). So, another possible answer may be that if there is a need or condition for display flexibility in a frontend, choose taxonomy. If not, then CPT. I think that's it because by common sense (or by design?), a cpt needs to be display (publicly queryable), meanwhile for taxonomy it doesn't have to be. What do you think? I'm not quite confident by my answer though.

[@ritzz48]

Hey Kevin, I feel like using CPT is still a chump like way. Since they store all data into post_meta table in the database. Not a good option for scalable websites with multiple posts and CPTs as they can really slow the database. I expected you to talk about this in this lesson but my expectations are incorrect. To overcome this we should use CCT in JetEngine or ACF custom database table extension. I'm not aware of similar tools for metabox. Otherwise great content, I've learnt a lot about frontend building from this course Thank you for putting out all these content for free

[@polarxta2833]

Metabox has that built in.

[@ritzz48]

@@polarxta2833 Interesting. Does it work well with Taxonomies, relations, etc or does it break like CCT?

[@BuildersFilmStudio]

How about Font End forms? Doesn't Metabox have this feature out of the box?

[@Gearyco]

I use WS form for everything. It has this built in regardless.

[@BuildersFilmStudio]

Awesome. Thanks! @@Gearyco

[@dzulhelmi81]

You dont need CPT UI anymore Kev, ACF now has built in feature to do that. Yeah, what took them so long?

[@Gearyco]

Yes I know. Now they just need relationships built in.

[@OneBrokeBloke]

Apparently ive done it so wrong, that even the wrong example is more correct than mine. Do you have more videoes about how to work like this? It will take some time to click for me

[@Gearyco]

Just finish the course and make sure you’re subscribed to channel. More coming!

[@冯宗耀]

Hello, I'm interested in joining your INNER CIRCLE. However, I have a concern: my English is not very good. When watching videos within the INNER CIRCLE, is there a feature that automatically generates and translates subtitles, similar to KZbin? If not, I would completely struggle to understand, and this worries me a lot.

[@Gearyco]

Unfortunately not. Sorry :/

[@izkuhl]

You were right. I hate my other websites now. 😭

[@Gearyco]

😂 it’s okay. Part of the process.

[@ZachariahWiedeman]

Your other post on CPT (kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZnGkqWmj92ohM0) is how I discovered your channel, and wow am I glad I did. I'm also torn between Meta Box and ACF. I can't find any recent videos or articles that adequately compare their features and account for all the latest updates, so it's confusing.

[@ZachariahWiedeman]

My biggest concern right now is being able to create custom fields that query custom post types and allow me to create a new post from within that field if the one I'm looking for doesn't exist yet. I'm definitely signing up for your Inner Circle in a few weeks once I really get started with that project so I can post my progress and get suggestions along the way. I'm building a web-based tool that integrates many of the features and functionality of Zotero. 😱

[@jeffbarnhart6441]

I'm trying to do a woocommerce store that will have 3 types of products. Is there a way to not have a junk drawer effect with that and can you do a tutorial on it?

[@Gearyco]

Just use categories

[@hosseinkhanmohammadi4770]

Hi Kevin. I'm not sure, but as I know, unfortunately the bidirectional relationships in ACF not implemented yet, so we have to use custom PHP code or using a plugin like AFC Extended (which is very powerful) to work with. Do you have any better solution for this? Regards

[@Gearyco]

Hopefully resolved soon!

[@jacobwwarner]

56:04 😮🤯😊

[@koperkuba]

Hi. You've reviewed the website I created in Polish about runners associoate. I plan to make some changes, but I'm having trouble with ACP, and I would appreciate some guidance. I have different types of races: N Bieg Nocny Św. Kingi, Bieg Kumaka, Bieg Sylwestrowy.. Each of these races has editions, such as Bieg Sylwestrowy 2020, Bieg Sylwestrowy 2021, Bieg Sylwestrowy 2022, Bieg Kumaka 2021, Bieg Kumaka 2022 etc., etc. I hope you understand. Should I create two types of ACP? One for Races and one for Editions? Should I link them together? Shoulda races could be taxonomies. And editions CPT? I still don't fully understand, and I would appreciate any suggestions.

[@Gearyco]

Races CPT. Race name = parent post. Race edition = child of parent

[@koperkuba]

@@Gearyco Thanks, ill try it:) Proud memeber of inner circle:)