#450 by installs
Advanced Custom Fields: Extended
All-in-one enhancement suite that improves WordPress & Advanced Custom Fields.
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (132)
- Updated
- 12 days ago
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)
ACF helps customize WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields. Proudly powering over 2 million sites, WordPress developers love ACF.
- Active installs
- 2+ million
- #28 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 77.5M
- 77,494,318
- Downloads, 30 days
- 468K
- 111.1K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5
- 1,440 reviews
- Last updated
- 51 days ago
- Sep 10, 2026
- Version
- 6.8.10
- 231 releases
What Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)'s own page says
Read from advancedcustomfields.comon
| Plan | Price | Billed | Renews at | Sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | $49 | Not clear on the page | Not shown | 1 website |
| Freelancer | $149 | Not clear on the page | Not shown | 10 websites |
| Agency | $249 | Not clear on the page | Not shown | unlimited websites |
The page's own words around each price
- Personal:
to suit our users across three common use-cases.  $49, Freelancer (10 websites) $149, Agency (unlimited websites) $249.](https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/wp-content/u
- Agency:
ers; Personal (1 website) $49, Freelancer (10 websites) $149, Agency (unlimited websites) $249.](https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/acf-pricing-tiers-2
- Lifetime or one-time payment:
your license will remain as is – a one time purchase with lifetime updates forever.
Who it is for
developers
Use cases the vendor names
- building custom content models
- developing websites using ACF Blocks and Options Pages
- handling multiple site activations
Features it lists
- ACF Blocks
- Options Pages
- PRO Fields
- Repeater
- Flexible Content
- Gallery
- Clone
A script read this page, and kept only what the page's text backs up. These are the vendor's list prices and its own words, not a deal and not my review. Prices change and can differ by country, so confirm on the vendor's page before you buy.
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | September 10, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.2 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | March 25, 2011 |
| Support, last two months | 9 of 9 threads resolved (100%) |
Reviews
4.5 / 5 from 1,440 reviews
| 5 stars | 1,212 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 33 |
| 3 stars | 18 |
| 2 stars | 12 |
| 1 star | 165 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
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.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
What kind of support do you provide?
Support Forums. Our ACF Community Forums provide a great resource for searching and finding previously answered and asked support questions. You may create a new thread on these forums, however, it is not guaranteed that you will receive an answer from our support team. This is more of an area for ACF developers to talk to one another, post ideas, plugins and provide basic help. View the Support Forum
Looking for non-minified files?
Our plugin’s non-minified JS and CSS files are available on GitHub.
Does ACF collect any data?
ACF includes an optional email signup to receive plugin updates and news. No data is collected unless you choose to subscribe. Your email is stored in accordance with WP Engine’s Privacy Policy.
Latest changelog entry
Release Date 10th September 2026
- Security – ACF now validates that uploaded PDF files begin with the standard %PDF- header before further processing, rejecting files that do not match the expected format
- Security – The Relationship, Post Object, Image, Gallery, and File fields now enforce WordPress read permissions on referenced posts and attachments when returned in REST API responses
- Security – ACF now verifies both preview context and the caller’s edit capability before substituting revision data when field values are retrieved for a post
Screenshots
Simple & Intuitive 
Made for Developers 
All About Fields 
Registering Custom Post Types
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.