Create Custom Fields in Purple Hub

purple hub summary in this article, you will learn how to create custom fields in the purple hub you will create a new field group, assign it to a post type, create a custom field and then set it as mandatory in our example, we will create a custom field for recipes, where the author of a post can select whether a recipe is vegan, vegetarian, or contains fish/meat here is what the result will look like preconditions have the 'administrator' role in your purple hub learn more purple hub overview of roles & rights docid\ djj5yjjacdplm9qt0qlfk have the 'cpt ui' plugin enabled in your purple hub have the 'acf' plugin enabled in your purple hub read this external article from wordpress to learn more about the concept of custom fields https //wordpress org/support/article/custom fields/ read this external documentation to learn more about the abilities of the integrated plugin ' advanced custom fields (acf) pro https //www advancedcustomfields com/resources/ ' how to guide 1\ go to purple hub 2\ click on 'acf' 3\ click on 'field groups' 4\ click on 'add new' 5\ next to 'add new field group' type the desired name for your field group into the form, e g 'recipe information' it is not allowed that the same acf field name is used in more than one field group, a warning will be displayed 6\ click on 'add field' 7\ below 'field type' choose the desired ui for your custom field from the dropdown, e g radio buttons 8\ below 'field label' insert the desired name of the field that will be displayed to the author creating your article e g diet 9\ below 'choices' enter your desired choices for the radio buttons put the labels for the system on the left side in lowercase letters and separate the line with an empty space + ' ' + another empty space and put on the right side the labels that will be displayed on your post to the readers for each label, use a new line, so that it looks like in the screenshot 10\ go back up to the top of the tab and click on 'validation' 11\ next to 'required' move the toggle from the left to the right side 12\ go to 'settings' > 'location rules' > 'show this field if' select 'post type' from the dropdown 13\ in the following field, select 'is equal to' from the dropdown 14\ in the following field, select 'article' from the dropdown 15\ click on 'save changes' you have now successfully created a new field group, assigned it to a post type and created a custom field coming from a list with radio buttons you have saved it and your editors will see this (mandatory) field below the article in the ui when editing it assigning fields to individual blocks in addition to attaching a field group to a post type, you can also assign it to a specific block type within the article editor to do this, select "block (wordpress)" in the location rules instead of "post type", and choose the block type from the dropdown (for example core/image or core/paragraph ) the dropdown lists all available block types fields assigned this way appear in the right hand settings panel of the article editor whenever an editor selects a block of that type — rather than below the article each block instance stores its values independently, so two image blocks in the same article can have different values for the same field the values are included in the published catalog output like any other custom field format specific configuration date pickers / date and timepickers for these types of acfs, it is possible to configure the format they are published with by setting the return format usually, the date/time is published in the string format, however if you want to publish this in the timestamp format, you need to enter "u" as the return format