Deze plugin is niet getest met de laatste drie grote versies van WordPress. Mogelijk wordt het niet meer onderhouden of ondersteund. Er kunnen ook compatibiliteitsproblemen ontstaan wanneer het wordt gebruikt met recentere versies van WordPress.

Advanced Custom Fields: Widget Area Field

Beschrijving

Easily add and change Widget Areas on any page template using Advanced Custom Fields and the Advanced Custom Fields: Widget Area Field plugin. This plugin will add a field with a drop-down selection of all registered Widget Areas in your WordPress installation. You can select which widget area you would like to display in your template files when using ACF’s get_field and the_field functions.

As of version 1.0, support for ACF v5 is included.

This Plugin Requires Advanced Custom Fields Version 4 or Higher

Advanced Custom Fields can be found in the WordPress Plugin Repository Here.

Compatibility

This add-on will work with:

  • Advanced Custom Fields version 4 and up

Installatie

This add-on can be treated as both a WP plugin and a theme include.

Plugin

  1. Install through the WordPress plugin repository
  2. Activate the plugin via the Plugins admin page

Plugin (Manual)

  1. Copy the ‘acf-widget_area’ folder into your plugins folder
  2. Activate the plugin via the Plugins admin page

Include

  1. Copy the ‘acf-widget_area’ folder into your theme folder (can use sub folders).
  2. Edit your functions.php file and add the code below (Make sure the path is correct to include the acf-widget_area.php file. You should also change my_register_fields function name to something unique.)

    add_action(‘acf/register_fields’, ‘my_register_fields’);

    function my_register_fields() {
    include_once(‘acf-widget_area/acf-widget_area.php’);
    }

FAQ

How does this work?

For this plugin to work, you need to have the Advanced Custom Fields Plugin installed. Once installed, you will be able to select a Widget Area as one of your custom fields.

How do I add new Widget Areas?

The WordPress Codex has an article on Widgetizing Themes which includes “How to Register a Widget Area”. If you add a new Widget Area (also called sidebar) with this method it will be available in Appearance > Widgets and also able to be selected in your new Widget Area Field.

How do I display my Widget Area Field?

The Advanced Custom Fields website has documentation on displaying custom field values.

Beoordelingen

3 september 2016
I am using the latest ACF Version 5.4.2 and the latest of WP. It works like a charme! Thank you very much, good job!
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Bijdragers & ontwikkelaars

“Advanced Custom Fields: Widget Area Field” is open source software. De volgende personen hebben bijgedragen aan deze plugin.

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Changelog

0.0.1

  • Initial Release.

1.0.0

  • Add ACF v5 support
  • Fixed an issue where it should have been buffering output
  • Add the ability to return the name of widget area instead of just the HTML output
  • Adding some escaping, better spacing, commenting
  • Better translation support for the few strings included
  • Fix bugs preventing from being used in Repeater Fields
  • Add checks for ACF existing and other checks