November 2, 2025 — In questo lightning talk esploreremo come implementare un sistema di cache basato sui transient di WordPress per migliorare drasticamente le performance e l’impatto dei siti con contenuti dinamici basati su ACF. Partendo dal problema del caricamento ripetitivo dei campi personalizzati, analizzeremo una soluzione scalabile ed efficiente che riduce le query al database fino al 70%. Vedremo come gestire automaticamente l’invalidazione della cache al salvataggio, come implementare una cache multilingua, e come ottimizzare selettivamente i campi non utilizzati.

December 18, 2023 — In questo piccolo talk, voglio spiegare come possiamo implementare tutta una serie di opzioni aggiuntive al nostro tema (custom o free) utilizzando ACF, plugin fondamentale per chi sviluppa utilizzando WordPress come piattaforma.

August 6, 2022 — This talk explains how to create complex blocks using the popular Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin. If you have experience with ACF, learn how to use what you already know in new ways.

November 30, 2020 — For those of us that rely greatly on Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for customizing our themes, the release of Gutenberg was and still is scary at times.

Have no fear! acf_register_block() allows you to create your own Gutenberg blocks using just Advanced Custom Fields.

You will learn:
– ACF & it’s awesome capabilities
– How to create Gutenberg blocks with ACF
– A few other handy ACF tips & tricks

February 10, 2020 — For those of us that rely greatly on Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for customizing our themes, the release of Gutenberg was and still is scary at times.

Have no fear! acf_register_block() allows you to create your own Gutenberg blocks using just Advanced Custom Fields.

You will learn:
– ACF & it’s awesome capabilities
– How to create Gutenberg blocks with ACF
– A few other handy ACF tips & tricks

January 14, 2020 — Let’s explore the benefits of thinking in re-usable blocks. Atomic design, Modular Development, and D.R.Y. methodology improves productivity, enhances UI and empowers authors. We will explore multiple methods to achieve modularity in our WP themes, leveraging the WordPress templating system and Advanced Custom Fields or using blocks in the form of Gutenberg. Regardless if you are ready to learn Javascript deeply and embrace Gutenberg, or set in your ways and sticking with the classic editor.

October 21, 2019 — Descripción: En muchas ocasiones necesitaremos algo más que un título y el cuerpo de un artículo para nuestra web: tal vez fechas, imágenes extras, una dirección en Google Map o un conjunto de direcciones. Si bien WordPress incluye una funcionalidad para incluir campos personalizados, la misma es muy básica, poco intuitiva y propensa a errores en la carga de datos.

En esta charla voy a enseñar cómo instalar y agregar campos personalizados a tu proyecto utilizando el plugin ACF (Advanved Custom Fields (https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/)) y también cómo incluir esta información en el desarrollo de nuestros plugins y temas.

August 7, 2019 — An introduction to registering custom blocks (via PHP) using ACF and implementing clean templating via Timber
Takeaways:

We can still create custom WordPress sites without having to dig deeply into JavaScript
We can keep our templates clean with Twig
ACF is still awesome and can help keep custom site building overhead low

May 17, 2017 — En la esquina azul con muchas líneas de código: el desarrollador de metaboxes de WordPress. Y en la esquina roja luchando bajo el lema “No reinventes la rueda”: el desarrollador que usa el plugin ACF. Ven a este encuentro pugilístico para ver las habilidades y debilidades de cada uno de los contrincantes y decide tú mismo quién será el ganador para tu proyecto web.

Presentation Slides »

March 29, 2017 — My topic will be centered on ways to customize WordPress posts, pages and custom templates with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for a better user experience. I will start out by giving a brief introduction to the plugin and how to use it, but the main focus will be on tips and tricks to making your fields clean and organized so that your users don’t freak out when looking at the backend of all their posts, pages or custom templates that use numerous custom fields.

The topic will be WordPress backend heavy, with a little bit of development talk to describe how to create fields in templates during the brief introduction to the plugin.