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WordPress websites are versatile and user-friendly. Thanks to extensions and customizations, it is possible to fully customize a WordPress website. This is useful for organizations that have loading speed, privacy, security and digital accessibility challenges.
With a customized WordPress website, you are no longer dependent on standard templates. We use Advanced Custom Fields, also called ACF, which can be used to create any possible design and solution. As a result, you are assured of a unique website that meets all your requirements and wishes. Customization may seem complicated, but it actually brings structure and unity. In this article, we discuss what ACF is, how we build our own flexible sections and what the benefits are.
In a WordPress website, you can create elements through Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), which are the building blocks of your page. We store these building blocks and call them sections. ACF is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add and manage custom fields. They are flexible sections because we can make anything you want. By creating several flexible sections, you create a container of content elements that you can use to build each page yourself, to your liking.
We build the flexible sections ourselves, giving us control over the presentation and design of each section. As a result, as an experienced Internet marketing agency, we guarantee high quality. For example, our sections are always being optimized, to remove bugs. This significantly reduces the chance of errors in your website. Also, this way there is no need for a plug-in developer. That’s a big difference from standard templates. There are often errors in a template that you cannot simply address. Such a bug is then “fixed” with a plug-in, making the website slower or containing even more errors.
Because we build the sections ourselves, we can handle certain challenges directly. At 2manydots, we prefer not to install an additional plug-in, but build the appropriate section as an alternative. This is clearer, safer, faster and completely to your liking.
The biggest pitfall in using ACF, is having too many different sections. There are also numerous options for each section, which can make it difficult to choose the best options for your website and content elements. As a result, a Web site can look cluttered and the corporate identity can get lost in the mix. So it is very important that the website remains a unit, despite the different components in a website. We help you find the right balance between unity and dynamic elements. In the end, it’s all about the best representation for a particular type of content.
The recommendation is to use a maximum of 10 to 15 different flexible sections. Some sections you use often, others only appear in one or two places in the site.
There are five flexible sections that recur on every website to build a good page. These five sections are the foundation and we build on them. Then we look at specific solutions to best present your content on a page. The solution must be in line with the corporate identity and user-friendly in the backend. We often see the following five basic sections:
You can make a custom WordPress website as complex as you like, but of course you don’t have to. By using ACF, you have the room to keep expanding, but still keep the backend uncluttered and secure. For example, you can link “custom post types” to a section: information in different places in the website is easily customizable in one place through this feature. For example, you don’t have to manually update contact information for changing recruiters throughout the website.
If you use flexible sections in WordPress, the extended content plug-in is a good addition. This homemade plug-in gives you the option to deal with available flexible sections easier and faster. In fact, this plug-in provides a visual translation for selecting the appropriate section. That way you don’t have to remember what each flexible section looks like. In summary, this plug-in provides an uncluttered backend and time savings.
The plug-in provides the following functionalities:
Get more out of your WordPress website and choose customization. Want to learn more about using our flexible sections with ACF or the premium extended content plug-in? If so, please contact us.