This is actually a good explanation of ACF Blocks and when to use them verses native blocks built with React.

We often use ACF to create Custom Post Types and custom fields, but then need a way to display them on the frontend. In this tutorial, I explore how Novamira, Claude Code, and ACF Blocks can work together so an AI agent can generate working ACF blocks that can be used in the Full Site Editor to create single and archive templates.

In this tutorial the ACF team tells how to manually setup ACF so that you are using custom tables instead of post_meta for storing field values. According to the article using custom tables is 100% safe and is supported by the standard ACF functions. I expect to see the team add this as an option for the Pro plugin in the future.

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.