ACF 6.1 Adds Support for Registering Custom Post Types and Taxonomies – WP Tavern

ACF (Superior Customized Fields) version 6.1 was launched this week with help for creating Customized Submit Varieties and Taxonomies. It is a long-awaited function that customers have been asking for because the earliest days of the plugin when it was nonetheless developed by its unique creator, Elliot Condon.

When Scrumptious Brains acquired the plugin, the ACF group reiterated this function request. WP Engine saved it on the roadmap once they acquired ACF in June 2022 and has lastly been in a position to ship. Registering submit sorts and taxonomies is now obtainable by a easy interface that works in the same approach to creating subject teams and fields.

After registering the CPT, customers can then add an present or new subject group for it or create a taxonomy, and transfer on from there. The benefit is that customers don’t have to interrupt their workflows and use a special plugin for this performance. For these managing shopper web sites, it’s one fewer plugin required.

“We all know there are a lot of ACF customers registering customized submit sorts (CPTs) and creating customized fields for them,” WP Engine Senior Product Supervisor Iain Poulson mentioned. “However they should register the CPTs both manually with code or utilizing one other plugin. The overarching workflow of modeling the information wanted for a website construct is fragmented between completely different plugins, UIs, and consumer experiences. We needed to repair that!”

The ACF growth workforce has additionally created a dedicated import tool for customers who wish to migrate submit sorts and taxonomies from the Custom Post Type UI (CPTUI) plugin to ACF with a purpose to handle all of them from one plugin. ACF has additionally constructed within the means to disable post types and taxonomies from the plugin admin in case customers don’t require this function within the replace.

ACF experiences greater than 4.5 million customers, so it will likely be fascinating to see how having this in-built will impression the CPTUI consumer base, which is lively on greater than one million web sites. Some customers merely want customized submit sorts however gained’t require all of ACF’s capabilities, however there may be actually a big overlap between the 2 plugins.

After increasing effectively past the creation of customized fields with this and former updates, Poulson mentioned they are going to be referring to the plugin as “ACF” extra going ahead. The plugin’s admin sidebar menu has been up to date from “Customized Fields” to ACF.

Model 6.1 additionally contains the next highlights and necessary adjustments:

• New ‘browse fields’ button opens a modal to go looking and showcase all subject sorts
• Submit Object, Web page Hyperlink and Relationship fields now help filtering by submit standing
•  Full compatibility with PHP variations 8.1 and eight.2
• New choice to filter subject settings tabs so different plugins can add customized tabs and organize their fields
• Safety repair backported to ACF 5.12.5 for a safety difficulty the place ACF would possibly unserialize maliciously manipulated information which instantiates a category

All of those new options can be found in each the free model and ACF Professional. Take a look at the changelog for the total rundown of all the pieces included in model 6.1.