What is ACF?

ACF refers to Advanced Custom Fields, which is a powerful WordPress plugin. ACF allows users to add custom fields to WordPress content such as posts, pages, and custom post types, enabling more flexible management and display of content. The main purpose of ACF is to expand the default field functionality in WordPress. It allows users to add custom fields, such as text boxes, dropdown menus, date pickers, and image uploads, to posts or pages, making it easy to add additional information based on specific needs. ACF’s role is primarily reflected in the following aspects:

1. Custom content: ACF allows users to add custom fields to posts or pages to save and display additional information, such as author information, subtitles, and background colors.
2. Flexible template design: With ACF, it is easy to call and display custom fields in WordPress theme templates. This allows users to design different layouts and display styles for different pages or post types.
3. Enhanced editing experience: ACF improves the user experience of editing content in the WordPress backend. By adding custom fields, users can edit and manage content more intuitively, not just limited to post titles and body text.
4. Improved data structure: ACF helps users establish a comprehensive data structure. By adding custom fields, additional attributes can be added to the data, making it more rich and structured, facilitating future data analysis and display. In summary, ACF is a plugin used to add custom fields in WordPress, providing more flexible content management and display options, and helping users expand the default field functionality in WordPress according to specific needs.

And WordPress Tooltip can read ACF fields and their content, and add the content of ACF fields as tooltip effects to the names of ACF fields in WordPress posts, expanding the usage of ACF. This allows WordPress site owners to flexibly display the actual ACF field content of specific posts in a tooltip popup window under the same ACF field name across different WordPress posts. It enhances the traditional functionality of WordPress posts, saves valuable display space, and provides a better user experience. When the mouse hovers over an ACF field, relevant information is immediately obtained, enriching the dynamic effects of WordPress pages.

ACF Tooltip Demo

This  is a funny ACF tooltip example: [acf field=’bullets_screen’]  via ACF shortcode [[acf field=’bullets_screen’]]

What is tooltip?

Tooltips are small popup box with more information like video /  audio / image / google maps / QR code / wiki / text… and so, tooltips box will pop up when users hover over an element in your pages, the element can be a word in your post, a search form input box, an image in your page, a widget on your sidebar.. and so on, wordpress tooltip plugin supports add tooltip effect on any element on the wordpress posts, or display on wordperss menu, comment, contact form, woocmmerce product, bbpress forum, buddypress activity…etc, with pretty effects and many more little amazing components and addons, for example, Bullets Screen

What it WordPress Tooltip Plugin:

WordPress tooltip pro is a tooltips plugin for wordpress, which be designed to help you create colorful, varied and graceful tooltip styles to present the content to your users, with lively and elegant animation effects, and save your valuable screen space.

When the users hover over an item, the colorful tooltip popup box will display with the animation effect. You can add video, audio, image, and even other content which generated by 3rd wordpress plugins like QR code, Amazon AD, Google Map in tooltip popup box via wordpress standard editor, it is very easy to use.

Why wordpress and woocommerce webmasters need wordpress tooltip plugin’s ACF tooltip function, acf tooltip how can better help wordpress and woocommerce webmasters?

WordPress and WooCommerce users can use the ACF Tooltip plugin and ACF fields in the following scenarios:

• Custom content display: The ACF plugin helps users create custom fields to display specific content on their WordPress website. For example, if you need to add custom titles, author information, subtitles, etc. in posts or pages, ACF fields provide an easy-to-manage and more flexible way.  At the same time you can provide richer information through ACF TOOLTIP, for example, when the mouse moves over the author’s name, you can provide the author’s photo, gallery, occupation, interests, twitter and facebook links …. etc.
• Building advanced search functionality: For eCommerce websites using WordPress, such as WooCommerce, ACF fields can be used to create advanced search features. Users can add additional search parameters through custom fields, such as price range, color, size, etc., allowing users to filter and search for products more accurately. For example, when the mouse moves to the color of the product, woocommerce shop owner can use wordpress ACF TOOLTIP to provide the actual photo of the color of the clothing and the effect of the model.
• Extending WooCommerce product pages: ACF fields can be used to extend WooCommerce product pages by adding custom product information fields. For example, you can add an additional text field to display special product descriptions, an image field to showcase additional product images, or a checkbox field to mark product features. By the way, WordPress tooltips have a WooCommerce Tooltips  module that support add tooltips effect on woocommerce product title,content, image, video, description, catalog…and more, for example, woocommerce shop owner can add tooltip to a WooCommerce product attribute offers valuable information to customers about that attribute. For instance, if the attribute is “material,” a tooltip can provide detailed information about the specific type of material used…etc.
• Creating custom forms: With the ACF plugin and ACF fields, users can create custom forms to collect and manage user-submitted data. This is useful for building contact forms, surveys, or other scenarios where user input data is required, and wordpress blogger can use wordpress contact form tooltip module to add tooltip effect on each contact form fileds.
• Multilingual support: For users with multilingual websites, the ACF plugin provides integration capabilities with multilingual plugins like WPML. With ACF field’s multilingual support, users can easily add custom fields and content for different language versions of the website. For example, we have English document: What is and Where are the wordpress tooltip addons? and we use ACF to manage the German version:Was ist und wo sind die WordPress Tooltip Addons? , also we using ACF tooltip addon in wordpress tooltip plugin to offer detailed description for the ACF fileds in english version and German version
• In summary, the ACF plugin and ACF fields provide WordPress and WooCommerce users with more powerful and flexible capabilities to customize and manage content, extend functionality, and enhance the user experience according to their specific needs. WordPress ACF Tooltip extends the functionality of ACF to provide a more powerful and flexible presentation features, wordpress authors can use the same ACF fields to provide different content in different wordpress posts, and use the ACF tooltip to wordpress readers to show the dynamic, multimedia, stunning tooltip effect, so that wordpress webmasters can according to their own needs to customize and manage the content, extend the functionality and enhance the user experience.

How to us wordpress ACF tooltip addon?

1: Login  wordpress tooltip plugin site to download wordpress tooltip pro plus plugin

2: login your wordpress  dashboard, upload wordpress tooltip plugin via your wordpress plugins panel,then activate wordpress tooltip plugin

3: Click “Tooltips” menu item, then click “Addons” sub menu item to open “Tooltips Addon settings” panel, it looks like this:

As you can see, there are 18 wordpress tooltip addons, “tooltip for table”, “tooltip for contact form”, “tooltip for woocommerce”,”glossary for woocommerce”, “tooltip for buddypress”, “tooltip for bbpress”, “tooltip for ACF”…etc, please just enable “tooltip for ACF” and click blue “update now” button

4: in ACF, add a ACF group, then add some ACF fields, for example, in the current time, my ACF group for this article looks like this:

5: In front end, use ACF shortcode to insert ACF field in your wordpress post, wordpress tooltip plugin will add tooltip effect in tooltip term which includes in ACF fields automatically, for example, in general, I am happy to add a multimedia tooltip keyword in ACF field:

This  is a video ACF tooltip example: video demo  via ACF shortcode [acf field=’video_demo_acf_tooltip’]

As you can see, including video in a tooltip window can be helpful for users to better understand ACF fields. THis can be especially useful for more complex fields that require more detailed explannations or visual aids.

For example, a form might have a field for “how to use our product” which requires a demonstration video to properly explain how to product works. In this case, a tooltip window with a video explaining how to use the product could be very helpful for users who may not be familiar with the product.

here are some possible use cases for displaying tooltips with video or audio content on ACF fields in the front-end of wordpress site:

educational content: wordpress tooltip could be used to provide additional explanation or clarification about a specific term or concept mentioned in a video or audio

e-commerce product: wordpress tooltip could be used to provide additional infomation or context about a specific feature or benefit showcased in a product demo video. For example, hovering over a highlighted feature in a video could display a tooltip with more information about how it works and why it’s beneficial

How to disable ACF tooltip in wordpress front-end?

1: when you edit a wordpress post, if you activated wordpress tooltip pro + plugin, in the right-hand, you will find metabox “disable all tooltips in this post” or “disable specific tooltips”…and more, it looks like this:

2: You can disable ACF tooltip displayed in a few kinds of wordpress standard post type or custom post type, just click tooltips menu item in wordpress dashboard and click tooltip post type sub menu item, it looks like this:

If you disabled tooltip for custom post type, then in post of these custom post type, ACF tooltip will be disabled too

Please note, ACF tooltips followed rules of “tooltip keyword matching mode” in global settings, about tooltip keyword matching mode, you can find more relaetd document at:

WordPress Tooltips Video Tutorial 7: WordPress Tooltip Keyword Matching Mode

How to Only Add WordPress Tooltip to the First Matching Keyword in the Same WordPress Post?

How to display all ACF fields in ACF group in wordpress front-end?

When we develop ACF tooltip addon, we developed ACF group plugin for users too.

When wordpress ACF users insert ACF fields into frontend of wordpress post, wordpress ACF Tooltip addon will add tooltip effect on ACF fields automatically.

A problem is, ACF do not support display all fields in ACF group in front-end of wordpres post,  what we want to do is, load all ACF fields in a ACF group and display their labels and values in frontend of wordpress post, and add wordpress tooltip effect for ACF fields which have a wordpress tooltip keyword, but after searched a lot of official site and plugins, we cannot find this kind of plugin or code, so we decide to develop this ACF group plugin for ourself and for all ACF users and wordpress tooltip users

How to use ACF Group Plugin?

1: Login wordpress tooltip plugin site to download acf group plugin

2: login your wordpress dashboard, upload acf group plugin via your wordpress plugins panel,then activate acf group plugin

3: in front-end, in wordpress editor, enter the shortcode
[[acf_group group=’group1′]]
“group1” is the acf group title

Then in the front end, ACF GROUP plugin will print group title and then list the values and labels of all fields from the ACF group group1, we make a ACF group quickly and make a screenshot quickly:

In addition, the wordpress tooltip plugin offers many interesting and powerful tooltip shortcodes, please check our detailed documentation and tooltip shortcode demo at: How to use wordpress tooltip shortcode tooltips to add tooltips manually?

please note, in general, you do not need a tooltip shortcode, because wordpress tooltips plugin will add tooltips effect for post’s content/title/tag/excerpt/gallery/menu automatically, based on wordpress standard APIs. By this way, wordpress tooltip plugin will save your time to manage tooltips, for example, when you want to change tooltips content, you will not need to read all posts to find which page has a specified tooltip and change it one by one manually, what you need to do is just editing your tooltips in wordpress standard WYSWYG editor, then tooltip content in all posts will be updated automatically.

Conclusion:

wordpress tooltip provides a powerful , wordpress users can use our wordpress ACF tooltip to automatically add stunning tooltip effects to wordpress and woocommerce ACF fields which enhances the functionality of This enhances the functionality of wordpress posts and provides wordpress users with a stunning experience that leaves a deep and professional impression of the wordpress webmaster’s content and helps to achieve the wordpress webmaster’s business goals 🙂