ACF Pro

The theme comes with the bundled Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin. It's used to handle custom fields for the posts and pages.

Revealing Hidden Panel

ACF is a plugin intended for use by WordPress developers. By default, its admin page panel is hidden in the theme. To reveal it, add the following line of code to the end of the functions.php file in your child theme:

add_filter( 'acf/settings/show_admin', '__return_true', 99 );

Updating Plugin

Since version 3.1.0, automatic updates are available for the bundled plugins, including ACF Pro. For more information on how to activate the theme license and receive updates, please see License Activation.

Once the theme license is activated, the updates are delivered to your WordPress dashboard via a notification as shown in the following screenshot:

Click 'Update Now' to begin the plugin update

Enabling Automatic Updates

To ensure compatibility with the latest WordPress and the theme, it's recommended to turn on automatic updates for the ACF Pro plugin:

Click 'Enable auto-updates' so WordPress will handle the plugin updates for you

About Automatic Updates

Please note that remote updates of the bundled plugins are available only for users with an activated theme license. For more information, please see License Activation.