This is a surprise – For years ACF has stayed focused on the creation of Custom Post Types and custom fields. Now, in a departure from that disciplined approach, the ACF Pro 6.8 Beta 2 is adding the ability to output full JSON-LD schema so content for your post type is more easily discoverable by AI and search engines.

The ACF team released Advanced Custom Fields 6.6 which includes the new ACF Blocks version 3. The new version lays the groundwork for future updates, enhances the editing experience, adds a new color picker, and more.

The ACF Annual Survey for 2025 was released. I didn’t see much that surprised me except for the number of people building blocks with ACF.

If you are new to using dynamic data with Bricks then this article from the ACF team might be useful to show you the options and process. It is a pretty comprehensive overview. If you are already familiar then it might not be of as much value.

ACF Pro 6.5.0 was released yesterday. The main focus of the update involved a number of enhancements made to the Flexible Content layouts feature to make it easier and more flexible to use. Another nice quality of life enhancement was that you can set a Date or Date Time picker to default to the current date. That is a real time saver.

Advanced Custom Fields version 6.4.3 is now available. This release contains several security fixes for ACF and ACF PRO, including additional HTML escaping for field group labels, post titles, and Select2 elements to prevent JS vulnerabilities in the WordPress admin. These vulnerabilities all required an ACF admin user to save malicious HTML. For this reason, it’s important to only ever import ACF JSON files from trusted sources.

This video from Paul Charlton shows what is possible with a little PHP and a good page builder.

The ACF team is again holding an annual survey to learn about how people are using ACF and to get feedback. This is a good opportunity to share your thoughts with the ACF team.

The Beaver Builder team created a free course showing how to use Beaver Builder together with Advanced Custom Fields and Grid Builder WP.