Advanced Custom Fields Pro (ACF Pro) plugin is a revolutionary WordPress plugin that allows you to customize and control your theme settings, post types, taxonomy, and custom fields. Take advantage of this plugin to create powerful customized front-end edits surfaces on your WordPress-powered site.
Core Features of Advanced Custom Fields Pro Plugin
- More AJAX
More fields use AJAX-powered search to speed up page loading. - Local JSON
The new auto export to JSON feature improves speed and allows for synchronisation. - Easy Import / Export
Both import and export can easily be done through a new tools page. - New Form Locations
Fields can now be mapped to comments, widgets and all user forms! - More Customization
New PHP (and JS) actions and filters have been added to allow for more customization - Fresh UI
The entire plugin has had a design refresh including new field types, settings and design! - New oEmbed Field
A new field for embedding content has been added. - New Settings
Field group settings have been added for label placement and instruction placement. - Better Front End Forms
acf_form() can now create a new post on submission with lots of new settings. - Better Validation
Form validation is now done via PHP + AJAX in favour of only JS. - Better Relationship Field
New Relationship field setting for ‘Filters’ (Search, Post Type, Taxonomy). - Moving Fields
New field group functionality allows you to move a field between groups & parents.
What’s New (Changelog) in Advanced Custom Fields Pro v6.3.6
= v6.3.6 = Release Date 28th August 2024
* Security – Newly added fields now have to be explicitly set to allow access in the content editor (when using the ACF shortcode or Block Bindings) to increase the security around field permissions. [See the release notes for more details](https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-6-3-6/#field-value-access-editor)
* Security Fix – Field labels are now correctly escaped when rendered in the Field Group editor, to prevent a potential XSS issue. Thanks to Ryo Sotoyama of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. for the responsible disclosure
* Fix – Validation and Block AJAX requests nonces will no longer be overridden by third party plugins
* Fix – Detection of third party select2 libraries will now default to v4 rather than v3
* Fix – Block previews will now display an error if the render template PHP file is not found