DP & Advanced Custom Fields

[Eric]

Hello again. It seems I’m having trouble wrapping my head around these custom fields. Correct me if I’m wrong:

– DP uses custom fields in posts to add info to products
– DP provides a nice GUI for the ‘duka’ custom post type
– You can use your own custom post type by adding custom fields

I’ve run through the documentation but am probably missing something. I would like to use Advanced Custom Fields to provide the price etc fields for my custom post type, but for whatever reason I can’t get anything to show up in the grid views.

Side note: the grid view shortcode is properly configured, it works great for post_type=’duka’, just not anything else.

Could I be naming my advanced custom fields incorrectly? Can I even use ACF? The price one doesn’t get any simpler – I named it ‘price’.

Anyway, thanks for any ideas you might have 🙂

[Eric]

Oh man, brutal. Answering my own question, not even 5 minutes later… turns out I was requesting the third shop page when only 1 existed. *1.5hr facepalm*

Advanced Custom Fields works great! For those interested, the fields can be found here: http://dukapress.org/docs/custom-fields-used/

The bold parts are what you should name your advanced custom fields: price, dropdown_option, currently_in_stock, item_weight, and digital_file. I haven’t actually played with anything other than the price so take that with a grain of salt, but it’s a relief to find out that this works 😀

[Kelvin]

Sorry we got here late, but glad you figured it out!

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