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Advanced Custom Fields: Widget Area Field

Add-on to Advanced Custom Fields that allows you to pick a widget area to be displayed on a page as a custom field.

As of version 1.0, support for ACF v5 is included.

Compatibility

This add-on will work with:

• Advanced Custom Fields version 4 and up

Installation

This add-on can be treated as both a WP plugin and a theme include.

• Plugin

  1. Install through the WordPress plugin repository
  2. Activate the plugin via the Plugins admin page

• Plugin (Manual)

  1. Copy the 'acf-widget_area' folder into your plugins folder
  2. Activate the plugin via the Plugins admin page

• Include

  1. Copy the 'acf-widget_area' folder into your theme folder (can use sub folders).
  2. Edit your functions.php file and add the code below (Make sure the path is correct to include the acf-widget_area.php file. You should also change my_register_fields function name to something unique.)

add_action( 'acf/register_fields', 'my_register_fields' );

function my_register_fields() {
	include_once( 'acf-widget_area/acf-widget_area.php' );
}