Advanced Custom Fields

Not as of now. I’ve looked into it and wasn’t excited about the prospects of “injecting” Airtable data into ACF. However, depending on what you’re trying to accomplish, Airpress will work wonderfully alongside of ACF.

I’d love to hear a little about what you’re trying to accomplish. Specifically regarding whether or not you’re looking to have Airtable data exposed in the Admin side of things (post editor, etc) or if you’re looking to use ACF shortcodes and API calls to get “up to date” data from Airtable.

I hear you. I didn’t realize that it was pulling records into WordPress virtually in real time via the API when I wrote that. This is a million times better than using ACF actually – my only challenge is for long descriptions in AirTable it’s be nice to have WYSIWIG markup functionality. If they hard code italics and bold into the long text, will AirPress pull that into the site and preserve formatting?

Thanks again for a plugin I’ve been waiting a long time for. We’ve built a number of sites using ACF + WP All Import, but keeping the data in sync proved to be a real challenge.

Thanks again!

Airpress includes a wonderful Markdown library called Parsedown which you can use on any AirpressRecord with a simple ->html($field) call.

So:

echo $post->AirpressCollection[0]->html("My Field with Markdown");

Awesome, thanks! We’ll check it out. We’re deep into building our first artist portfolio site using Airpress and it’s going well!

Fantastic. If there’s any way to see it when it’s done I’d love that!

And in the meantime, feel free to hit me up with any additional bug reports or feature requests.

Hello, just a quick heads up that I’ve just released functionality for resizing and caching Airtable images. You can read more here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/image-sizes-47

Hi Chester,

I’d like to reiterate the appreciation stated by @tinymill. This is a really awesome plugin. Thank you for taking the time to create it.

I’m chiming in on this thread because I was also looking for a solution to pull Airtable data into regular and custom wp fields.

I’d like this functionality so that I can update fact based fields across multiple sites with one update in Airtable. I’m not a developer by trade so I’ve been trying to hack my way through a process that would allow this type of update via manual pull or push to prevent any undesired overwrites of data in WP fields.

Any thoughts or opinions on this method?

Thanks again for sharing your excellent work!

I only have a moment to respond, so this will be short but sweet!

Airpress doesn’t (currently) interact with a page/posts REAL custom fields. Remote Airtable data is fetched when the page/post is loaded based on your configuration settings and/or code. So rather than WordPress being “updated” when Airtable data changes, think of it as WordPress “fetches” required data when a page/post loads.

If you want to fetch remote Airtable data when a post is EDITED or CREATED that is a different task. I’ve thought of building a “Custom Fields Sync” module, but I can’t honestly think of a use-case where my existing functionality wouldn’t satisfy.

I’d love to heard a little more about why you want WordPress Custom Fields populated with Airtable data rather than accessing that data in “real-time”.

If there’s a use case I’m missing, I’d love to expand Airpress to cover it. Let me know! And thanks for the kind words and feedback.