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Field types overview

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Field types overview

- [Instructor] Wordpress has supported post meta, the ability to add extra information to your posts and pages for a long time. However, doing anything more than simple text got complicated very quickly. Here among the CMB2 github page and you can see that doing anything more complicated than simple text requires hours of coding, additional frameworks and a ton of testing to make sure everything is working and saving properly. Thankfully, advanced custom fields removes those complexities by creating a wealth of different field types all configurable, directly through the Wordpress dashboard. While we won't be comprehensive in this video it is worth highlighting a few of the more advanced ones. First let's take a look at our relational field type. There are actually several versions of this. The page link, which allows you to quickly look up a post and grab the permalink or the post's URL. If you simply want to link to another post, this is a great option. The post object which will…

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