Sounds great! I have a few more ACF Blocks ideas on the way.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks! These are great ideas for future videos. 1) I'd look into ACF's "Local JSON" feature as the go-to way to store ACF files locally in your theme. www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/local-json/ Also if you want to prevent your users from seeing the ACF admin screen, you can hide it from them: www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to-hide-acf-menu-from-clients/ 2) You can override the default colors in the ACF color picker: www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/javascript-api/#filters-color_picker_args . I could imagine setting that up with a custom ACF options field or else pulling the color values directly from theme.json 🤔

​@@BrianCoords Thanks! I've been planning to dig more into local JSON. Regarding 2 - the issue is that this theme + blocks combo will be used by multiple clients in the same industry. Which means the palette needs to be both changeable in the UI, and I want to provide some preset choices too. That's easy to do with something like Kirki but seems a lot more limited with the Gutenberg global styles panel. Unless there's a way of adding custom sections and controls to the GB global styles panel? I'm also not sure how I'd access GB global styles in ACF blocks and if they're just limited to client side things like CSS variables. Whereas getting customizer options anywhere in PHP is easy, and they can include more complex db-stored stuff like layout configs etc.

Carousels are always hard because they're interactive - there may be some block plugins that do it, I could even imagine it coming to core one day, but for now a custom block, like an ACF Block, is the best way,

@@BrianCoords Sorry I didn't explain what I mean and thanks for the reply. I mean is ASF outdated since Wordpress has introduced FSE and a complete blocks workflow? So we can develop natively without ACF? Basically is ACF becoming redundant?

@@taunado Oh I see. No I think there's always a great use case for ACF. It gives you a UI for things like custom fields and settings pages. If you aren't interested in learning React, you can build custom blocks with it very easily. There's still a lot of reasons a developer might want to use ACF.

@@BrianCoords Thanks! I've learned React, just got to learn PHP now.

So there's a filter that determines whether your site will load ALL block assets or just the assets on the current page. It's typically true on block themes but not on custom themes. Take a look here and see if this helps: developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/should_load_separate_core_block_assets/

Yeah that's a great question. Since WooCommerce products appear as a custom post type, you should be able to update the post/relationship field to load the "Products" CPT instead of just posts.

Thanks! If I remember correctly, I used wp-cli to generate the initial plugin for this one. Since I use LocalWP for local development, it has wp-cli built right in! I also probably deleted some of the stuff I didn't need, like the stuff for translation, the grunt file, etc. Here's a link: developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/scaffold/plugin/

I'm planning a longer series with more step-by-step basics. Let me know if there are any particular parts of ACF Blocks that you'd like me to cover

I downloaded your repo; everything worked, except for some minor css issues. I'm still wondering why I was getting "No posts selected"?? Maybe a naming issue somewhere...

Hmm are you trying to get posts or are you trying to get a different post type?

I am running on the same issue and I am not getting a different post type. Just the native one. Any idea what could be the reason? (Thanks for this video)@@BrianCoords

Found the answer. The get_field() should reference the Field Name you entered when creating the ACF

In your ACF field or on the front end of your site? @@vincentagasen1368

The full code is linked in the description but let me know if I'm missing anything else: github.com/bacoords/example-acf-carousel-block