ACF Quick Edit Fields

Reviewers keep calling it a big time saver for editing custom fields straight from the post list, with the newest ratings staying at five stars, and the only sour notes are older ones about quick edit not saving and a bulk edit error.

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9 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 3 listed. 6 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 89% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 21 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ nancy.hildebrandt

   6mo ago

   I don’t know why these features aren’t included in ACF Pro Presentation options but this plugin fixes that.

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2. ★★★★★ theguitarlesson

   9mo ago

   THe plugin does exactly what it should do. Allows the addition of ACF filds to the Quick edits of items in WP post lists and custom post type lists. Awesome!

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3. ★★★★★ Manou Allou

   1.6y ago

   This plugin is golden! It saves you so much time by editing custom post’s fields from the list table view. A big THANK YOU to the developer. You rock @podpirate!

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4. ★★★★★ christianfdk

   2.4y ago

   works very well

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5. ★★★★★ carlosvai

   2.8y ago

   This is a great and fundamental tool to access custom fields in the post editor list. You can also choose which fields appear in the list, which ones only for quick edit and also in the backend search box. Overall, an amazing extension for ACF. Thanks a lot!

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6. ★★★★★ sstanczak

   3.1y ago

   The first issue I found was 1) the quick edit fields don’t save correctly – the spinner justs keeps spinning. If you do click out of it, it seems the field was edited but pretty clunky and not quick. The main issue was when I tried bulk editing a field, I got a critical error that broke my site. Does have some nice features but can’t rely on this plugin to be on my site

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7. ★★★★★ Nic

   3.5y ago

   love this plugin. so simple and so intuitive. works well with acf pro. you do not need more than this. great! thank you so much for maintaining.

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8. ★★★★★ siknoidas

   3.5y ago

   Thanks for your plugin! I was working directly with mysql and acf fields. And when you don’t saving products individually you can’t see ACF fields. After bulk save its helped me a lot! Thanks.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.3.8 Fix: Messed up media library. Kudos to tflight Fix: Select values not loading after ACF Update Fix: Backend Search not working Fix: Some Bulk Operations not validating 3.3.8
2. — Version 3.3.7 Fix: Ajax loading broken with select fields on ACF 6.3.2+ 3.3.7
3. — Version 3.3.6 Fix: PHP warning Fix: Post object column shows garbage 3.3.6
4. — Version 3.3.5 Fix: nested select fields now dispalyed with optgroups. (Notice: Won’t work with UI) Fix: Custom Checkbox values not showing 3.3.5
5. — Version 3.3.4 Performance: Skip feature init on edit post Fix: PHP warning, None label not clickable in radio fields Fix: show no value in datetime fields 3.3.4
6. — Version 3.3.3 QuickEdit: add none-choice to nullable select fields Render data-id atrribute on field Fix: Default Taxonomy UI shown Fix: QuickEdit options visible if field is added for the first time Fix: Local JSON not saved immediat 3.3.3

The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (3.3.8). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 6.5 ACF Quick Edit Fields <= 3.2.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Insecure Direct Object Reference ↗
   2022-12-05 CVE-2023-7286 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affects <= 3.2.2 Patched in 3.2.3

Translated into 8 languages, 1 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-02-09 20K+ → 30K+ up after 1 days in tier
2. 2025-02-08 30K+ → 20K+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-02-07 20K+ → 30K+ up after 34 days in tier
4. 2025-01-04 30K+ → 20K+ down after 12 days in tier
5. 2024-12-23 20K+ → 30K+ up after 14 days in tier
6. 2024-12-09 30K+ → 20K+ down after 187 days in tier
7. 2024-06-05 20K+ → 30K+ up after 735 days in tier
8. 2022-06-01 10K+ → 20K+ up after 416 days in tier

Competes with

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ACF Quick Edit Fields: 30K+ active installs, 4.5★ (43 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/acf-quickedit-fields