Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) turns WordPress sites into a fully-fledged content management system by giving you all the tools to do more with your data.
Use the ACF plugin to take full control of your WordPress edit screens, custom field data, and more.
**Add fields on demand.**
The ACF field builder allows you to quickly and easily add fields to WP edit screens with only the click of a few buttons! Whether it’s something simple like adding an “author” field to a book review post, or something more complex like the structured data needs of an ecommerce site or marketplace, ACF makes adding fields to your content model easy.
**Add them anywhere.**
Fields can be added all over WordPress including posts, pages, users, taxonomy terms, media, comments and even custom options pages! It couldn’t be simpler to bring structure to the WordPress content creation experience.
**Show them everywhere.**
Load and display your custom field values in any theme template file with our hassle-free, developer friendly functions! Whether you need to display a single value or generate content based on a more complex query, the out-of-the-box functions of ACF make templating a dream for developers of all levels of experience.
**Any Content, Fast.**
Turning WordPress into a true content management system is not just about custom fields. Creating new custom post types and taxonomies is an essential part of building custom WordPress sites. Registering post types and taxonomies is now possible right in the ACF UI, speeding up the content modeling workflow without the need to touch code or use another plugin.
**Simply beautiful and intentionally accessible.**
For content creators and those tasked with data entry, the field user experience is as intuitive as they could desire while fitting neatly into the native WordPress experience. Accessibility standards are regularly reviewed and applied, ensuring ACF is able to empower as close to anyone as possible.
**Documentation and developer guides.**
Over 10 plus years of vibrant community contribution alongside an ongoing commitment to clear documentation means that you’ll be able to find the guidance you need to build what you want.
Features
- The Repeater Field
- ACF Blocks
- The Flexible Content Field
- Options Pages
- The Gallery Field
- The Clone field
- More AJAX
- Local JSON
- Easy Import / Export
- New Form Locations
- More Customization
- Fresh UI
- New oEmbed Field
- New Settings
- Better Front End Forms
- Better Validation
- Better Relationship Field
- Moving Fields
Changelog
6.1.8
Release Date 3rd August 2023- Security Fix - This release resolves a stored XSS vulnerability in admin screens with ACF post type and taxonomy labels (Thanks to Satoo Nakano and Ryotaro Imamura)
6.1.7
Release Date 27th June 2023- New - Added new capability settings for ACF taxonomies
- Enhancement - Added a new acf/field_group/auto_add_first_field filter which can be used to prevent new field groups from automatically adding a field
- Enhancement - Field setting labels now have standard capitalization in the field group editor
- Enhancement - Clone field now has a tutorial link
- Enhancement - "Exclude From Search" CPT setting now has an improved description
- Enhancement - The acf_get_posts() function now has acf/acf_get_posts/args and acf/acf_get_posts/results filters
- Enhancement - Added a new acf/options_page/save action hook that gets fired during save of ACF Options Pages
- Fix - Taxonomies are now initialized before post types, preventing some permalink issues
- Fix - Increased the taxonomy slug maximum length to 32 characters
- Fix - Extra tabs are no longer added to PHP exports with field settings containing multiple lines
- Fix - ACF admin assets now load when editing profile and users for a multisite network
- Fix - Blocks with recursive render_callback functions will no longer crash the editor
- Fix - JSON files now end in a new line for better compatibility with code editors
- i18n - layout(s) strings in Flexible Content fields are now translatable
- i18n - Updated Polish translations
6.1.6
Release Date 4th May 2023- Security Fix - This release resolves an XSS vulnerability in ACF’s admin pages (Thanks to Rafie Muhammad for the responsible disclosure)
- Fix - Duplicating fields in a new field group with field setting tabs disabled now behaves correctly
