ACF has been ignoring a critical bug with ACF Blocks inside Patterns for over 4 months now. Dozens of developers (myself included) reported that patterns with ACF blocks can’t be edited since WordPress 6.8, but there’s still no fix, no ETA, just vague promises and poor workarounds. For a paid plugin, this level of support is unacceptable — it feels like development has stalled and important issues are simply brushed aside.

It was great before when it just did custom fields, but they've continued expanding and improving it and now it also does CPTs and taxonomies - I'm super impressed - it's one of my go to plugins

This, combined with custom post types make WordPress infinitely reusable. There is almost nothing that can't be built.

The options page feature (paid) is also excellent.

In my career as a dev, this plugin has not once let us down. It never breaks or cause any issues. Very well recommended.

ACF is one of those plugins I install by default. It’s reliable, flexible, and makes managing custom fields super easy.

I feel that enough time has passed that it's fair to post a new review. My previous review was deleted, in what used to be a very rare occurrence for reviews on the repo. The review demonstrated the number of guidelines for the WordPress Community. wordpress.org, and the Plugin Directory were broken when Automattic changed ownership and naming of the plugin, and locked out the original developers.

As that situation was backtracked, and the larger issue is working through the courts, It's time to show love to a plugin that I've used on dozens of sites for over a decade at this point. If you ignore the additional harm that was brought to trust this plugin and future updates thanks to the unilateral actions of Automattic, this plugin is great for adding custom metadata to pretty much any part of your site, including custom post types, users, taxonomies, and more.

This plugin used to be great but it has recently become really unreliable and clunky to use. Having to add short codes to use it and going back and forth to get things to actually appear on the website is tedious, and the other day I discovered that content I spent a lot of time putting in doesn't display on certain iphones, so now I have to go back and redo 2 dozen services pages without using ACF. It's incredibly frustrating when this app used to be pretty flawless.

Now that custom post types are available in the Free version, why go elsewhere?

This is the standard for Post Types in WordPress.

We love you ACF!

An essential plugin. So glad it's back properly!!

not as good as before