ACF/Meta Box Gallery Images as Bricks Slider Using a Custom Query Type in Bricks

For an easier alternative method, follow this tutorial instead.

Updated on 26 Jul 2023

This Pro tutorial provides the steps to set images of a ACF Pro's Gallery field or Meta Box' Image Advanced type of field as the source of a Slider (Nestable) element in Bricks.

When editing a Page:

When the Page is being viewed on the front end:

ACF Pro

Step 1

Create a field group having a Gallery-type of field labelled say, Page Gallery and set its location to be your desired post type (Pages in this example).

Step 2

Edit your Pages and populate the field for each by uploading/selecting your desired images that should appear in the slider.

Step 3

Add the following in child theme's functions.php (w/o the opening PHP tag) or a code snippets plugin: