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Using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

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Using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

Guidance on using Advanced Custom Fields for designing pages.

Last updated on 19 Mar, 2026

While Frame does provide the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin, using this feature will require JSON and coding skills.

In Frame, simply creating a field in the backend using ACF doesn't tell the theme where or how to display that data on the page. You have to explicitly "bind" that custom data to a block (like a Paragraph or Image block) in your template.

Currently, WordPress does yet not have a visual "point-and-click" interface for connecting these fields to blocks. To display your ACF data, you will need to utilize the WordPress Block Bindings API manually.

 

Overview:

  1. Open your Post/Page in the editor.

  2. Add a standard block (e.g., a Paragraph block) where you want the data to appear.

  3. Switch the editor view to Code Editor mode.

  4. You will need to manually add the binding attributes to the block's HTML to tell it to pull data from your specific ACF meta field instead of static text.

Directions for Block Binding:

https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/02/introducing-block-bindings-part-1-connecting-custom-fi…

https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/03/introducing-block-bindings-part-2-working-with-custom-…

We know this isn't the most "user-friendly" method yet, but it is currently the native way to handle custom data until WordPress releases a visual interface for it.

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