ACF Launches New Annual Survey – WP Tavern

WP Engine has launched an annual survey for Superior Customized Fields (ACF), one of many plugins it acquired from Delicious Brains in 2022. ACF reviews greater than 4.5 million lively customers, together with PRO web site installs, and WP Engine Product Supervisor Iain Poulson reviews that the plugin is “rising in each manner for the reason that acquisition.” ACF has added extra customers, options, and releases, together with group constructing efforts like bi-weekly office hours.

That is the primary time ACF has surveyed its person base about how they’re constructing websites with WordPress and what will be improved. The survey begins with questions concerning the contexts wherein professionals are utilizing ACF and the quantity and forms of websites they’re constructing. Respondents are requested about how they edit their websites, the kind of license they’re utilizing, how typically the attain for ACF of their toolbox, and which ACF options they use most frequently (i.e. REST API, ACF Blocks, Choices pages, ACF Types, Submit Varieties Registration, and so forth.).

The survey is on the lengthier facet with an estimated quarter-hour to finish. As ACF is a vital and indispensable a part of many WordPress builders’ workflow, serving to to form its future growth could also be well worth the time. WP Engine has additionally added a couple of questions which will solely be tangentially associated to ACF, equivalent to the place customers are internet hosting their WordPress websites and what they use for native growth.

“It’s our major methodology for gathering insights and suggestions from the WP group on what they wish to see in ACF,” WP Engine Product Advertising Supervisor Rob Stinson stated. He additionally associated the significance of earlier buyer suggestions that helped ACF’s workforce plan and implement options like registering CPTs and Taxonomies (v6.1).

“Within the close to time period, we’re engaged on bringing a UI to register Choices Pages which is a PRO plugin characteristic, some lengthy requested options like bi-directional relationship fields and enhancements to conditional logic guidelines for taxonomy fields,” Poulson stated. “We may even be focussing a launch on extra ACF Blocks options and enhancements. The survey gained’t seemingly change these deliberate options, and the preliminary outcomes are validating our deliberate work on ACF Blocks.”

The survey ends Might 19, 2023, and WP Engine plans to publish an aggregated and anonymized model of the outcomes quickly after the info is collected.