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Advanced Custom Fields: Extended
The essential ACF upgrade for developers who demand more.
HealthyGrowing
96/100
It provides powerful ACF enhancements and exceptional developer support for technical users.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.8★
132 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+293%
Growing fast
188 → 739 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +293% in the last year
188/day a year ago→739/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAdvanced Custom Fields: Extended is widely regarded as an essential, well-built companion to ACF with standout developer support, though it carries a learning curve for non-developers and some confusion around what features are free versus Pro.
What people like
- +Support from the developer (Konrad) is consistently praised as fast, thorough, and patient×9
- +Adds substantial, well-integrated functionality on top of ACF that developers find genuinely useful×7
- +Plugin is considered stable and reliable, with releases that don't routinely break things×2
- +Pro version is considered worth the price by those who have purchased it×2
- +Improves the backend editing experience for clients, particularly with flexible content previews
Common complaints
- −Not beginner-friendly; requires solid understanding of WordPress, ACF, and hooks/filters to use advanced features×2
- −Unclear distinction between free and Pro features; mixed badges in the UI cause confusion
- −Frontend form workflow lacks a built-in option to map a field to the post title, forcing developers to write custom hooks or duplicate fields
- −Image Selector field does not render images correctly when nested inside a repeater within flexible content on the frontend
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.76★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 132 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-02-04★★★★★Effortless Gutenberg Block CreationCoditive1-shot
- 2025-01-03★★★★★Excellent Support14oangus
- 2024-12-16★★★★★Excellent supportgspowart
- 2024-09-15★★★★★Metadata not saved automaticallytomo55555
- 2024-09-05★★★★★Just what ACF needed61pixels
- 2024-08-29★★★★★Quick support and extensive documentationmuneebkiani
- 2024-07-31★★★★★A really powerful addition to ACFpzh20
- 2023-11-18★★★★★Useful, well thought out plugin. Excellent support.dbrabyn
- 2023-05-06★★★★★A Must Have if Using ACF but somewhat annoyingstormhill
- 2023-03-27★★★★★Properly extends ACF with support second to noneemezing17
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
1,253
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
517
Prior 7-day baseline
1,396
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
7,924
Mean release-day peak (30d)
2,361
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
+142.4%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.19
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.73 → 4.76★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered