Scroll-based animated circular progress bar with incrementing number from ACF options page

This members-only tutorial provides clear and complete steps to implement Supa Mike's tutorial on animated progress bars with the additional functionality of the countup or increasing number being read from a custom field set on the options page via ACF Pro.

Step 1

Install and activate Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin.

Let us enable ACF Options page.

Install and activate Code Snippets plugin.

Go to Snippets > Add New.

Title: Enable ACF Options Page

Code:

if ( function_exists( 'acf_add_options_page' ) ) {
    acf_add_options_page();
}

Go to Custom Fields > Add New.

Create a field group titled say, "Sitewide" having a Number-type of custom field with the name of countup. Set it to appear on the Options Page.

Step 2

Click on Options in the admin menu and enter your desired number that should get incremented as the circle does the progress animation.

Step 3

Let us load Waypoints and jQuery Circle Progress on the site's homepage.

Install and activate My Custom Functionality plugin.

Connect to your hosting account using a FTP client and navigate to site's /wp-content/plugins/my-custom-functionality-master.

Upload jquery.waypoints.min.js and circle-progress.min.js to the plugin's assets/js directory.

Edit plugin.php and add the following inside the custom_enqueue_files() function: