Using Custom Tables for ACF Data
Read about Tom McFarlin's experience using ACF Custom Database Tables for normalising ACF data
Read about Tom McFarlin’s experience using ACF Custom Database Tables for normalising ACF data
For those who love to do it all, creating a table schema, writing the code to create the table, and begin testing writing and reading data to it from ACF – not to mention all of the validation and sanitization needed – sounds like a fun technical problem to solve. But when working under ‘real world’ constraints, we’re far more limited. After a lot of research (and seriously considering just doing it myself ?) I ended up using ACF Custom Database Tables.
Read the full article here:
https://tommcfarlin.com/custom-tables-for-acf-data/
Related Extension
ACF Custom Database Tables by Hookturn is the plugin Tom discusses in this article. It lets you store ACF field data in dedicated database tables for faster queries and cleaner data architecture. View the extension on Awesome ACF.