As of April 2026, whatwedo ACF Cleaner is a WordPress acf plugin with 800 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®).
We analyze the post of the selected post types against the ACF groups in use. Afterwards we remove all data from deleted groups.
There’s a dry run available (discovery) to see how many fields would get removed. On the actual cleanup you get prompted because it can’t be undone (so make a backup first).
Developed with ♥ by whatwedo in Bern.
Thanks to TrilipuT for contributing.
This plugin was initially created for our own usage to clean a big database from old ACF data.
Check out the GitHub repository and submit pull requests or open issues
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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