Frequently Asked Questions

SiteKiosk helps you, as a developer, to take advantage of these custom fields. It gives your users a sleek user interface to manage their custom field information, and you a suite of powerful functions to retrieve and present it to your site’s visitors.

Practically, this means you can add customised data to not only Posts and Pages, but also Categories, Taxonomies, Custom Posts, Custom Taxonomies, Users, Attachments, Comments, Menus, Widgets and Options, all in just a few clicks, and without writing any code. There are currently almost 30 different field types ranging from simple text fields through media and maps, to more complex groups of fields and relationships.

With “Chrome Browser” skin (SiteKiosk configuration–>Start Page & Browser) SiteKiosk deletes the HTML5 storage by default.
Just make sure the option « Delete Temporary Internet Files » at « –>Logout » is enabled (is enabled by default when creating a new configuration).

With IE based skins (e.g. Metro IE) you need to enable the additional option « Delete Internet Explorer DOM storage (requires SiteKiosk restart) » at « Logout » in the SiteKiosk configuration to delete the HTML5 storage.
Note: This option is availabel since SiteKiosk 9.7.

Otherwise (with older SIteKiosk versions and using an IE based skin) you need to add a little external script to the SiteKiosk configuration (–>Start Page & Browser–>Advanced–>Execute script file) that deletes the HTML5 storage data and restarts the browser (generally required for deleting HTML5 Storage data)

Example script (without further support):

//Initializing the events we want to use to delete Web Storage
SiteKiosk.OnReset = WaitBeforeDelete;
SiteKiosk.ScreenSaver.OnScreenSaverEnd = DeleteWebStorage;

function WaitBeforeDelete()
{
    //check if screen saver is running
    if (!SiteKiosk.ScreenSaver.Active){
    //Give SiteKiosk some time to run through its default session end methods
    evtid = SiteKiosk.Scheduler.AddDelayedEvent(5000, DeleteWebStorage);
    }
}

function DeleteWebStorage(eventID)
{  
    try
    {	
        //Deleting the folder in SiteKiosk user account with the help of the FileSystemObject
        var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
 		fso.DeleteFolder("C:\\Users\\SiteKiosk\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\DOMStore", true);
 		SiteKiosk.Logfile.Notification("Deleting the Web Storage content was successful");
        
        //Required restart to clear the Web Storage from the temporary cache of the current browser instance
        SiteKiosk.Restart();
 	}
    catch (e)
    {
        //Optionally create a SiteKiosk logfile entry in case something goes wrong
        //SiteKiosk.Logfile.Notification("There was an error deleting the Web Storage content: " + e.description);
    }
}

The script deletes the HTML5 storage data on logout and screen saver end within the SiteKiosk user folder (also restarts the SiteKiosk Browser on logout and when the screen saver deactivates).
When not using default “Auto Start” you need to adjust the path in the script to match the user account.

Just copy & paste the lines above into an editor (e.g. Notepad) and save it as JS file (e.g. DeleteWebStorage.js) to the folder “…\SiteKiosk\Html”.
Then add that script to the SiteKiosk configuration (–>Start Page & Browser–>Advanced–>Execute script–>On startup of SiteKiosk, execute the following script file).

We are fanatically commited to providing users of ACF great support.

We are constantly working to expand and improve the plugin’s documentation.

If you can’t find an answer there, the folks on our email help desk will do their very best to help you out.

There is also a very active community of users on our Community Forums who are both very knowledgable and friendly!

You can find out more about support at our dedicated Support FAQ

Installing ACF is just like installing any other WordPress plugin.

You can install it manually by downloading it from the WordPress Plugins Directory, and then FTP it to your site’s plugins directory. Once ACF is uploaded, you will need to activate it by finding it in the list on the _Plugins_ page in your site’s Administration area, and clicking on the ‘Activate’ link.

Or you can install it automatically by searching for ‘Advanced Custom Fields’ under _Plugins > Add New_ in your site’s Administration area. When you have found ACF in the search results, click on the ‘Install Now’ button. If the installation is successful remember to click the ‘Activate Plugin’ button to complete the process.

ACF is successfully installed and activated if your Administration menu has an entry called Custom Fields.

For a step by step guide to installation, click here.

We can’t imagine why you’d want to, but you most certainly can uninstall ACF.

The first step will be to locate any ACF specific code in both your theme’s functions.php file, or its template files. For your references, you can find a list of ACF specific functions, filters and actions in the documentation.

You’ll need to deactivate ACF by clicking on the ‘Deactivate’ link on the Plugins page, followed by the ‘Delete’ link.

This will remove all of the plugin’s files from the WordPress plugins directory.

License keys are used to enable plugin updates. After purchasing an ACF PRO license, you will receive a unique license key and access to download plugin files via our members area.

After installing and activating the ACF PRO plugin, you may then activate your license key from the “Custom Fields > Updates” admin screen to register that website for plugin updates.