Using ACF to extend frontend member profiles and fronted login/registration pages created by popular plugins.

Secure Custom Fields is a fork of ACF Pro. It provides all of the features of ACF Pro for free and the number of active installs is rapidly growing. In this video I look at the pros and cons of SCF for users and also consider the issue from the point of view of developers who might be asked to support it.

ACF Pro is now available for download from WordPress.org under the name Secure Custom Fields. I take a look at this new addition to the WordPress plugin directory and wonder if this is a fork or a nulled plugin?

ACF released the results of their annual survey. There are some interesting results. For example, hybrid theme use has caught up to classic themes and Bricks is the #2 most popular builder among the respondents.

This release includes important security fixes, improvements and bug fixes.

For developers, ACF Free and Pro can now be installed using Composer.

The WordPress team “forked” the free Advanced Custom Fields plugin and renamed it Secure Custom Fields. To continue with Advanced Custom Fields you can download the plugin from the ACF website.

An update is available for a security vulnerability. You need to follow instructions for updating due to the ACF team being unable to update the plugin on WordPress org.

In the latest ACF live stream they demoed how the upcoming ACF 6.4 will support WooCommerce HPOS. This is the high performance Woo that uses custom database tables. It is great to see that ACF will be able to be used in that context.