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Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)

ACF helps customize WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields. Proudly powering over 2 million sites, WordPress developers love ACF.

By WP Engine·Acf·Free
4.5(1,428 reviews)
·2.0M+ active installs·Updated 4 days ago
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As of April 2026, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) is a WordPress acf plugin with 2.0M+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 1,428 reviews. It has been downloaded 69M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.2+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 220% this week. Support resolution rate: 43%. Top alternative: Advanced Custom Fields: Extended.

4.5/51,428 reviews
2.0M+active installs
43%resolved
15 yearssince 2011

Overview

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&#…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.51,428 reviews
5 ★
1,202
4 ★
32
3 ★
17
2 ★
12
1 ★
165

Recent Reviews

Must Have Tool
by tyriqsuth·1 week ago

One of the best plugins I’ve used. Makes custom fields super easy to manage. Works smoothly and is very flexible. tnx to devs, really helped in my projects 👍

Flexible Fields Tool
by albertowadsworth·1 month ago

ACF really helps when adding custom fields to posts n pages. Setup is pretty simple and very flexible. Took a little time to learn at first, but works great once you get used to it. Tnkz devs.

I just want to display the content
by annafjmorris·1 month ago

The back-end set up is great and clearly this is a powerful plugin. However, this plugin requires either the paid version or custom PHP theme to display the content on the front end!

There are no blocks included and the support on the website seems to be referring to the old editor.

This is the kind of walled garden approach I don’t think should be welcome from WordPress plugins.

I have wasted a huge amount of my time trying to make this plugin work, have now given up and am using a directory plugin instead. I would have preferred ACF as it’s a simpler solution but even being savvy and using ChatGPT I couldn’t get my fields to show up in the free WordPress theme.

Flexible & Reliable
by kellymann·1 month ago

ACF really helps me build custom layouts without extra hassle. Field setup is clear & options are flexible. Saves a lot of dev time. There’s a bit of a learning curve at first, but once you get it, it works really well.

Very Flexible Tool
by sheapurcell64·1 month ago

Using Advanced Custom Fields really helped me control custom data easily. UI is clean and setup is simple. Saved a lot of dev time. Cz of that my workflow feels smoother. Some things need Pro, but overall tnkz ACF 👍

Download Trends

Today: 32KYesterday: 141KThis week: 834KPeriod total: 10.8M

Compatibility

WordPress6.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP7.4+ required

Version Adoption

v6.7
43.5%
Other
32.3%
v6.3
10.8%
v6.4
7.2%
v6.2
6.2%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

6.8.0

Release Date 30th March 2026

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  • New – ACF now integrates with the WordPress Abilities API, allowing external consumers (AI tools) to manage field groups, post types, and taxonomies when explicitly enabled via the enable_acf_ai feature flag
  • New – ACF can now generate JSON-LD structured data fields when explicitly enabled via the enable_schema feature flag
  • New – ACF now includes WP-CLI support with new wp acf json commands for importing, exporting, syncing, and checking the status of ACF JSON files
  • New – ACF custom post Types now support the WordPress 6.9+ “Notes” editor feature via a new “Notes” checkbox in the Supports settings

…and 22 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Anthony BurchellAnthony BurchellLiam GladdyLiam GladdyMatt ShawMatt ShawWP EngineWP EngineDale WilliamsDale WilliamsElliot CondonElliot CondonIain PoulsonIain PoulsonPhil JohnstonPhil Johnston+1 more
Plugin Info
Version
6.8.0
Last Updated
Mar 30, 2026
WP Requires
6.2+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
2.0M+
Downloads
69M+
Added
Mar 25, 2011
Business
Free

Tags

acfmetafieldsrepeatercustom fields

Developer

W
WP Engine
15 plugins3.5M+ total installs
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