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ACF Photo Gallery Field
Grab this ACF gallery tool before it officially retires.
HealthyGrowingPoor rating
67/100
The plugin offers useful ACF functionality but faces critical bugs and an upcoming deprecation.
Active installs
~65,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 60k+
Rating
4.0★
29 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+16%
Growing
129 → 150 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.87★
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 · +16% in the last year
129/day a year ago→150/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayACF Photo Gallery Field is a well-liked utility plugin for adding gallery fields to ACF that works well for many users, but is undermined by a persistent and serious image-saving bug and unreliable compatibility with Elementor Pro and WPGraphQL.
What people like
- +Works as advertised for adding and listing photos in ACF field groups×5
- +Works well with Elementor Pro and custom templates for accessing dynamic gallery data×3
- +Reported as easy to use and versatile×2
Common complaints
- −Images are not saved after adding them to the field and updating the post — a recurring and critical data-loss bug×4
- −Does not work or integrate properly with Elementor Pro for some users, particularly the gallery widget×2
- −No support for WPGraphQL
- −Causes a PHP Fatal Error for some users
- −Support is slow or absent, with the plugin appearing abandoned to some users
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.87★Verified rating — drops from 4.00★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 21%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 29 total
Latest reviews · 29 analyzed
- 2025-12-27★★★★★Excelent free option for ACF photo gallery fieldtazmandev
- 2024-05-14★★★★★Too buggyqbey
- 2023-08-13★★★★★Great solution! It works perfectly! thanks Devs!pedrocunhaweb
- 2023-07-27★★★★★PHP Fatal errorZohaib Ali
- 2022-11-26★★★★★excellentpmachart
- 2022-08-21★★★★★Works perfectly with Elementorjoexcm
- 2022-07-22★★★★★does not have support for GraphQLcarlosjunod1-shot
- 2022-07-10★★★★★Urgentshivd1-shot
- 2021-01-25★★★★★Doesn't workcristian5
- 2021-01-22★★★★★Does what it saysExpIorer
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to ACF Photo Gallery Field
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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.
132
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
154
Prior 7-day baseline
124
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
132
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-14.3%
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.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.48
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
69%
5★ share in analyzed sample
21%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.97 → 3.87★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered