ACF Photo Gallery Field

Overview

About this plugin

Important Notice for New Users of ACF Photo Gallery Field

If you are installing the ACF Photo Gallery Field for the first time on your WordPress website, we’d like to inform you that this plugin will no longer be maintained as of October 2024. As an alternative, we have launched a new and improved plugin called ACF Galerie 4.

We encourage you to check out ACF Galerie 4 for enhanced features and ongoing support. ACF Galerie 4 includes a built-in migration tool that seamlessly transfers data from ACF Photo Gallery Field or ACF Gallery Pro to ACF Galerie 4. Learn more.

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A lightweight extension of Advanced Custom Field (ACF) that adds Photo Gallery field to any post/pages on your WordPress website.

Visually create your Fields

Add multiple photos and you can also modify title, caption and link to anything

Assign your fields to multiple edit pages (via custom location rules)

Easily load data through a simple and friendly API

Uses the native WordPress custom post type for ease of use and fast processing

Uses the native WordPress metadata for ease of use and fast processing

Supports WordPress classic and Gutenberg editor

RESTFul API

Donation

Navneil Naicker is the sole developer working on this free WordPress Plugin in his leisure time. He would like to integrate it with premium plugins like Elementor Pro and Advanced Custom Fields Pro. Please donate to support Navneil in continuing further development of this plugin.

com/navzme ” to donate.

Usage

acf_photo_gallery is a helper function that takes in ACF_FIELD_NAME and POST_ID will query the database and compile the images for you. The output of this function will be an array.

acf_photo_gallery(ACF_FIELD_NAME, POST_ID);

Example

The following example is using Twitter Bootstrap framework to layout. You can use any framework of your choice.

php echo ($target == 'true' )? >

Add Extra Fields

php file.

//Create extra fields called Altnative Text and Status function my_extra_gallery_fields( $args, $attachment_id, $acf_key ){ $args['alt'] = array( 'type' => 'text', 'label' => 'Altnative Text', 'name' => 'alt', 'value' => get_field($field. '_alt', $attachment_id) ); $args['status'] = array( 'type' => 'select', 'label' => 'Status', 'name' => 'status', 'value' => array( array( '1' => 'Active', '2' => 'Inactive' ), get_field($field.

'_status', $attachment_id) ) ); return $args; } add_filter( 'acf_photo_gallery_image_fields', 'my_extra_gallery_fields', 10, 3 );

Supported field types:

* text, date, color, datetime-local, email, number, tel, time, url, week, range, checkbox, radio, textarea, select

How to get values of extra fields

You can use ACF helper function get_field

get_field('photo_gallery_alt', $id); get_field('photo_gallery_class', $id);

Pull caption from attachment caption field

By default the caption is being pulled from description field. php to pull the caption from attachment caption field.

add_filter( 'acf_photo_gallery_caption_from_attachment', '__return_true' );

REST API

Send HTTP Request to URL to get JSON response of all posts

http://{domain}/wp-json/wp/v2/{POST_TYPE}/

Send HTTP Request to URL to get JSON response of specific post

http://{domain}/wp-json/wp/v2/{POST_TYPE}/{POST_ID}/

When you receive the response, see the ACF item which contains ACF photo gallery name and array of images.

Installation and basic usage tutorial