custom posts with custom fields

Hello,

I need to use custom posts with custom fields in them.
for this I’m using these plugins
– Custom Post Type UI
– Advanced Custom Fields

we need a page where we offer books. they need to be posts because the list is long and it needs to be searchable. the post loop would show the book cover (featured image) with then a buy button that links to off site places like amazon.

With a custom post for books, in admin we can then add the right link to each place they book it offered.

so the question is:

is there a way to use a flex post loop and add the custom item to it? or is this only possible with PHP ?

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• This reply was modified 4 years by thedonatshop.

sorry for the double image. I tried to delete one but I saw no delete option.

part 2 of this is a slight variation. but principally the same issue or very similar.

I’d want to be able to link these “learn more ” buttons to link to a custom link added to the post with the aid of a custom field. they would actually go to the author template.

I arrived here as I saw no way to loop contributors
thus I saw even less on how to loop in “featured” contributors as I saw no way to indicate any contributor as a featured one.

so I resorted to making custom posts for each of the featured contributors . so I can loop them in a block but now I need them to link to their respective author page.

I’m not asking you to help me with these other plugins. only to find out once I have custom plugins will I be able to place them in your theme and get some of the custom fields to be populated.

Or if you see another way to achieve what I need within your theme.

thank you.