What is wordpress ACF Plugin? Why I using ACF plugin?

ACF stands for advanced custom fields, which is a popular plugin for wordpress that allows developers to easily create custom fields for wordpress posts, pages, and other content types on a wordpress site. These custom fields can be used to store and display various type of information, such as images, text, dates, and more.

One of the main benefits of displaying ACF fields on the front-end of a wordpress site it that it allows for greater control over the way content is presented to users. By using ACF to define custom fields for different type of content, developer can ensure that each piece of content is structed in a consistent and meaningful way.

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

For example, I have a blog with a variety of different post types, such as news articles, product reviews, and opinion places. By using ACF to define custom fields for each of these post types (e.g. Author name, publication date, product rating), I can ensure that the information is displayed consistently across all articles, regardless of the type.

In addition, displaying ACF fields on the front-end can also help improve the user experience by providing additional context of information about the content being displayed. For example, a product review could include custom fields for “product image” and “product specification”, helping users to get a better sense of the product being reviewed.

What is wordpress tooltip plugin?

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 I Developed the ACF Tooltip Plugin Addon? What is the Benefit of displaying Tooltip Effects on ACF Fields?

The benefit of displaying tooltips effects on ACF fields in the front-end of a wordpress site is that it can help to make the content more user-friendly and easier to understand for the readers.

This  is a woocmmerce ACF tooltip example: [acf field=’woocommerce_tooltip’]  via ACF shortcode [[acf field=’_woocommerce_tooltips‘]], you can display product in anywhere to increase sales, click the button in the woocommerce acf tooltip to purchase and enjoy tooltips plugin?

With the help of tooltips, bloggers can provide additional information or clarification about specific fields or content areas on their wordpress site. For example, they could use a tooltip to explain the meaning of a technical term, offer additional context or explanation about a particular topic.

By providing these extra details and context, bloggers can enhance their readers’ understanding of the content and improve the overall user experience. This can help to increase engagement, reduce confusion or frustration, and ultimately improve the quality of the content being presented.

I am using ACF form plugin, I found in the context of wordpress and ACF (advanced custom fields), adding tooltips to fields on the front-end can help provide additional information to users about what a specific field is for, or how it should be used.

This can be especially helpful in cases where there may be some confusion or ambiguity about what a particular field represents or how it should be filled out.

By prodding this extra information via tooltips, users can have a clearer understanding of how to use the form or fields on the front-end, which can ultimately lead to a better overall user experience and fewer errors or issues with data input.

use case about ACF tooltip:

suppose you have a form on your site that includes a field for “shipping address”. However, some users might not be sure what information to include in this field or where to find it. By adding a tooltip to the shipping address field that explain what information is needed(e.g. name, address, city, state, zip code), users can have a clearer idea of what to enter.

Another example might be if you have a form that include a field for “preferred contact method”. This field could have a tooltip explains the available options (e.g. email, phone, text message) and each option entails. This can help users choose the right contact method for them.

A third example might be if you have a form with a field for “date of birth”. This field could have a tooltip that explains the expected format of the date (e.g. MM/DD/YYYY) and any other important details (e.g. muse be at least 18 years old). This can help prevent errors and ensure that users provide accurate information.

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:

WordPress Tooltips Addon Settings Panel in Version 16.1.8

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:

acf tooltip group

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: [acf field=’video_demo_acf_tooltip’]  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:

disable acf tooltip in wordpress post

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:

how to disable acf tooltip by post type

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:

Conclusion:

With wordpress ACF tooltip addon, you can add tooltip for ACF fields, you can use acf tooltip for e-commerce product pages, contact forms, reference materials, multimedia content, educational content, podcast episodes, mucis playlists…etc, what  you need to do is just enable wordpress tooltip ACF toolti paddon, then wordpress tooltip will add tooltip effect on your ACF fields automatically 🙂