Last updated on June 30, 2025
This taks is very annoying and will take some time, probably months. But it is essential for my task of ACF Pro custom field integration. All of the lyric quotes are created using a wordpress cover block. Basically, I find a relevant image, convert it to WebP, and insert it into a cover block in the wordpress graphical editor. Then I can adjust the layout and add text over it. I can then change text color to black or white depeneding on the inverted contrast necessary for that image. I can adjust the darkness of the overlay, and then it is complete. These blocks contain a low of code to reproduce the way it looks. Because of this, ChatGPT and I struggled to integrate ACF fields into them in a simple way. It became an impossible nightmare. My soluton was to convert these to images. Which is great, it wil allow me to tag each image aswith its relevant fields, such as artist name, song name, theme 1, theme 2, theme 2, album title, album cover, etc. This applies to EVERY cover block on the page, including book excerpts. The power of this is as such, search and tag queries will be able to show all of an artist or authors related blocks, or a subjects related blocks, thus, being able to generate nearly infinite combinations of dynamic content. The ones with the highest threshold of content can be turned into static pages, but they will automatically extract the relevant images which are tagged “neoplatonism” for example. SO that page will show every current and future item tagged “neoplatonism”. So all of my chapters will have enough content, once converted to generate many more pages with the content already existent. So its worth it in the end. But it means I have to use Safaris web element capture on EVERY cover block on my site after adjusting it for the best conditions and test wrapping. So far only the first chapter is using these.
