Advanced Custom Fields

ACF allows you to create custom fields, assign them to post types, and input them on the admin edit screen.

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This is a free plugin

Features

Advanced Custom Fields

This is the free version of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) that can downloaded from the WordPress plugin directory. ACF allows you to create custom fields, assign them to post types, and show them on the admin edit screen. ACF free has more than two million active installs, more than all other custom fields solutions added together. ACF free has 30 field types, comes with easy to use PHP functions for displaying fields in theme templates, and is well documented. It has the most support of any custom field plugin solution.

Tutorials

Custom Post Types and Theme Builders – Part 1 CPT UI and ACF

Advanced Custom Fields - The Good

Has good documentation.

Due to its popularity, ACF has a huge number of tutorials, videos, and other learning resources available.

There are a number of third party addons available for ACF.

ACF is regularly updated and well supported.

ACF is GPL licensed.

Advanced Custom Fields - The Bad

You must use CPT-UI or a code generator to create Custom Post Types for use with ACF.

ACF free has no templating ability and you will need to use PHP code or another tool to display the custom fields on the front-end.

ACF has been sold twice, once in 2021 and then a year later in 2022.