Episode 11 - Chatting with Elliot Condon of Advanced Custom Fields

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Episode 11 - Chatting with Elliot Condon of Advanced Custom Fields

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This week we welcome our first ever guest! 🎉

We chat to Elliot Condon, the man behind the enormously successful WordPress plugin Advanced Custom Fields, about developing a plugin, becoming a father, Gutenberg, and running a business.

We run a little longer this time round, and we could have talked for much longer! But we hope you enjoy listening as much as we did chatting.

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Posted by:
Iain Poulson on June 6, 2019
Tag: acf, gutenberg

Posted by Iain Poulson

I’m a WordPress developer based on the south coast of England. I develop plugins like Intagrate and WP User Manager.

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Marjorie Ray says:

June 8, 2019 at 2:29 pm

Loved this, thanks to all. I am a newer ACF user, happy the direction you are headed in. Kudos to all for putting family first and your general positive attitudes all around!

Murray Chapman says:

June 25, 2019 at 1:30 am

I was really encouraged by the podcast and appreciated both the Presenters and Elliot sharing their views on the current scope of WordPress and WP development. Being a home-based WP dev/designer (Melbourne, Australia), I was taken back by the number of similarities I had to Elliot and was encouraged that i was not alone in how I developed, made decisions and generally went from day to day. A lot of questions that were being asked I had to address and it was genuinely a breathe of fresh air to hear you ask them as well. Finally a big thank you the openness of the conversation. Peace and props.

Adam Patterson says:

June 17, 2021 at 3:30 pm

What’s amazing is that around the time ACF added repeatable fields I was working on my own CMS out of frustration with WordPress and how it handled custom data. ACF was around but I wanted repeatable blocks of data.
So I built one, the template is what setup the admin interface rather than making the fields and then loading them in the template.
Not long after ACF repeater came out and it has been the one plugin for WordPress that I basically won’t build a site without.