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Hey Guys,
Looking for help on this project that I’m working on, the project is a product website that has 3 categories of Commercial, Residential and Accessories, Which in turn then have their own product items.
The products aren’t sold online, hence why I’m not using Woo-commerce.
My question is what would be the best way to do this in Advanced Custom Fields Plugin (Free version), using custom post types .
As every time i try and figure it out i seem to get lost in the UI and then get frustrated.
Thanks
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If you find it hard working with ACF you could still use Woocommerce and just turn of sales. I’ve done that on several websites that just want to showcase their products and that works perfectly. If you want to use ACF anyways I think you have to be more specific about your problems asking for one or a few things at a time, as typing out an entire guide for you including all the steps is **a lot** of work. You’re better of googling a guide or reading the documentation page on acf’s website.
Defining custom post types can be tricky to do manually, you could investigate the CPT UI custom post type plugin to define your 3 post types using a user interface as a start. though there are a million options that will be asked of you when defining a custom post type, the defaults in the plugin will mostly be ok to get up and running.
[https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/)
Or if you wanted to pursue woocommerce, you don’t have to sell products on it as CocioPuckio mentions, if you set your products up as without a price assigned. You can then leverage the woocommerce categories for the categorisation part.
Try Pods instead. It’s less complicated has somewhat of a guided setup, completely free and has all the features ACF pro has.