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
info:
ACF | Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress
Customise WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields
www.advancedcustomfields.com
Changelog
= 6.2.5 =*Release Date 16th January 2024*
* Security Fix - The ACF shortcode will now run all output through `wp_kses`, escaping unsafe HTML. This may be a breaking change to your site but is required for security, a message will be shown in WordPress admin if you are affected. Please see the [blog post for this release for more information.](https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-6-2-5-security-release/) Thanks to Francesco Carlucci via Wordfence for the responsible disclosure
* Security - ACF now warns via an admin message, when upcoming changes to `the_field` and `the_sub_field` may require theme changes to your site to avoid stripping unsafe HTML. Please see the [blog post for this release for more information](https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-6-2-5-security-release/)
* Security - Users may opt in to automatically escaping unsafe HTML via a new filter `acf/the_field/escape_html_optin` when using `the_field` and `the_sub_field` before this becomes default in an upcoming ACF release.
= 6.2.4 =
*Release Date 28th November 2023*
* Fix - Custom Post Types labels now match the WordPress 6.4 behavior for "Add New" labels
* Fix - When exporting both post types and taxonomies as PHP, taxonomies will now appear before post types, matching the order ACF registers them. This resolves issues where taxonomy slugs will not work in post type permalinks
* Fix - Advanced Settings for Taxonomies, Post Types or Options Pages now display with the correct top padding when toggled on
* Fix - When a parent option page is set to "Redirect to Child Page", the child page will now correctly show it's parent setting
* Fix - When activated as a must-use plugin, the ACF PRO "Updates" page is now visible. Use the existing `show_updates` setting to hide
* Fix - When activated as a must-use plugin, ACF PRO licenses defined in code will now correctly activate sites
* Fix - When `show_updates` is set or filtered to false, ACF PRO will now automatically still activate defined licenses
* i18n - Maintenance and internal upstream messages from the ACF PRO activation server are now translatable