Need help with website design

I am looking for a way to get a specific design for my website, I am using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin in my site, but currently my theme is not supporting ACF Pro features. My website is about celebrity profiles; there are lot of tables in posts (one post has 35 tables with 334 rows in total). I currently have 334 fields in one field group of ACF plugin because i can't use the repeater field, it’s impossible for me to edit it without crashing my site. i need the ACF repeater field, currently my theme does not support, and it’s creating a lot of manual work.

I actually want a design like this site, myanimelist.net/anime/season but i have no idea how i can get that. Currently using Newspaper theme with a demo that has ACF support, but it does not have pro features support. I don't have budget to hire someone to create the website design, so I need to do it all of it on my own.

navi9000 said:

I am looking for a way to get a specific design for my website, I am using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin in my site, but currently my theme is not supporting ACF Pro features. My website is about celebrity profiles; there are lot of tables in posts (one post has 35 tables with 334 rows in total). I currently have 334 fields in one field group of ACF plugin because i can't use the repeater field, it’s impossible for me to edit it without crashing my site. i need the ACF repeater field, currently my theme does not support, and it’s creating a lot of manual work.

I actually want a design like this site, myanimelist.net/anime/season but i have no idea how i can get that. Currently using Newspaper theme with a demo that has ACF support, but it does not have pro features support. I don't have budget to hire someone to create the website design, so I need to do it all of it on my own.

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That layout you want is much easier if you switch to a theme or builder that supports ACF Pro out of the box since working with 300+ fields in one group will always be messy. You could look into using a free addon like ACF Extended or even Elementor’s dynamic features which work better with repeater fields. If switching themes is not an option you might try creating custom templates with a child theme so you can style the repeater output similar to MyAnimeList without breaking your current setup.

metersaver said:

That layout you want is much easier if you switch to a theme or builder that supports ACF Pro out of the box since working with 300+ fields in one group will always be messy. You could look into using a free addon like ACF Extended or even Elementor’s dynamic features which work better with repeater fields. If switching themes is not an option you might try creating custom templates with a child theme so you can style the repeater output similar to MyAnimeList without breaking your current setup.

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I can switch themes, currently looking into this theme, "Ohio - Creative Portfolio & Agency WordPress Theme" they said they have ACF pro features support. My current theme is Newspaper, using child theme and custom template from the demo I altered it way too much already, I asked their support if there is a way to make pro features work, they said it's not possible.

If you know any themes that I can use, please do suggest.

SeoForLife777 said:

I can help you with that

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Can you tell me how?

I am also a newbie in web development otherwise i would have helped you in this thing. being a newbie i am also facing same issue almost. Recently i have made a menu site. i have covered all the recipes and it went upto 63 posts and pages with multiple of columns and rows in it. each menu items is further explained for a proper and easy browsing

Using 300+ fields in one group will always cause problems. The ACF Repeater field would fix this, but it’s only in the Pro version. If you don’t want to upgrade, try free alternatives like Meta Box or Pods, or break your data into custom post types instead of one giant post. That’ll make things way easier to manage and stop your site from crashing.

Why not switch to a theme that fully supports ACF Pro instead of struggling with limits? (My opinion)

navi9000 said:

I am looking for a way to get a specific design for my website, I am using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin in my site, but currently my theme is not supporting ACF Pro features. My website is about celebrity profiles; there are lot of tables in posts (one post has 35 tables with 334 rows in total). I currently have 334 fields in one field group of ACF plugin because i can't use the repeater field, it’s impossible for me to edit it without crashing my site. i need the ACF repeater field, currently my theme does not support, and it’s creating a lot of manual work.

I actually want a design like this site, myanimelist.net/anime/season but i have no idea how i can get that. Currently using Newspaper theme with a demo that has ACF support, but it does not have pro features support. I don't have budget to hire someone to create the website design, so I need to do it all of it on my own.

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Hello I am SK Kamal. Your problem isn’t actually that the theme “doesn’t support” ACF Pro, but that it doesn’t provide ready-made templates for Pro fields; ACF Repeater works with any theme if you display it via a custom template. Having 334 individual fields in one field group is what’s causing the crashes and heavy manual work, and the correct solution is to replace those with ACF Pro Repeater (or Flexible Content) fields and render the tables dynamically in a template instead of inside the post editor. You don’t need to change the Newspaper theme or hire a developer—just install ACF Pro, move your repeated data (like filmography or stats) into repeaters, and output them with a simple PHP loop, which will drastically reduce fields and improve performance. A MyAnimeList-style layout is essentially custom post types plus repeatable data and a grid/table layout, which you can fully achieve in WordPress using ACF Pro, a custom template, and basic CSS, even on a tight budget.