{"id":157458,"date":"2025-11-19T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=157458"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:29:11","slug":"webinar-acf-product-improvements-2025","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/resources\/webinar-acf-product-improvements-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar | A New Era for Custom Blocks with the Latest from ACF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Few plugins have changed how WordPress<sup>\u24c7[1]<\/sup> sites are built as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancedcustomfields.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Advanced Custom Fields<\/a> (ACF), and it\u2019s our mission to keep making the ACF experience even better.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch this webinar to see how developers are using ACF to speed up their work and improve the sites they build. 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