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ACF Flexible Content Module #372

Open zackpyle opened 6 days ago

zackpyle commented 6 days ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I would like a way to build ACF Flexible Content layouts using Beaver Builder modules instead of with custom html/css/js

Describe the solution you'd like

I have thought about this and I think there would need to be 2 modules:

  1. Flexible Content Container module.

    • This container module will be where the Flexible Content will be output
    • It only accepts a child module of Flexible Content Layout module (detailed below)
    • There is a single field in this module where you assign it to an ACF Flexible Content field name.

  2. Flexible Content Layout module

    • This is also a container module
    • All of the modules inside of this module would then be connected using Themer Connector to the fields assigned to that layout in the ACF settings
    • This module would also have a single field - it would be where you assign it to the Layout name

Describe alternatives you've considered

The only alternative right now is to create the layouts using html/css/js using the Themer shortcodes: [wpbb-acf-flex name='my_flexible_content']

https://docs.wpbeaverbuilder.com/beaver-themer/integrations/acf/field-types/flexible-content/

This is laborious and not pleasant to work with like it would be to create layouts using modules.

Additional context

Using these two modules would allow you to create complex layouts using BB/Themer and then have the user create pages using those layouts using ACF Flexible Content fields on the backend!

zackpyle commented 6 days ago

After the new Loop module is released in v1.5, which can do this ACF Repeater fields, this proposed new Flexible Content module seems like the next evolution!

chillybin commented 6 days ago

This would be a game changer for us, we build a lot of sites in ACF Flexible content where we don't want to give the client complete design control, but give them layout and content control based on set modules from an approved design. Would be keen on this for sure. If we have to do a lot of ACF Flex, which we do… then we bypass BB and go straight into a Bootstrap theme