Creating Custom Post Types with the ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) plugin provides us the flexibility to create page templates for each of them, if we desired.
Not only does this take the guesswork out of creating a page, but it ensures they follow the same format from one page to another. It also improves the speed of making the individual pages.
With New Homes, Remodels, ADUs, and Commercial custom post types, the page layouts are basically the same. The main differences are the Navigation Footers, which contain the buttons to go back to the post type’s appropriate landing page.
These CPTs are designed in order to make building their pages in a simple, yet standardized way. There are associated Field Types (also created using ACF).
By using CPTs and Field Types, we can use WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System) for our portfolio pages.
For example, if a New Home has been built and we want to feature it on the New Homes portfolio landing page, we just click “Add New Home” and fill in the data in the Field Groups at the bottom of the page. This data is added to the page when its url is opened. The only blocks we would need to add are the New Home’s galleries, using the “Hug Media Gallery Query Loop” plugin.
