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Advanced Custom Fields – Menu Field add-on

by Chris Wessels · Admin & Utilities

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This add-on creates an Advanced Custom Fields field type that renders a select element, containing the items in the associated menu.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 54 average across 3,792 Admin & Utilities plugins

10+

Active installs

≈19 estimated

3.3K

Total downloads

since 2012

3.85★

Rating (adjusted)

3.7★ raw · 3 reviews

-41%

27

Downloads · 30d

category median +24%

High removal-risk signals

75/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, well behind 6.8.
  • Reviews souring. Recent reviews read meaningfully worse than older ones, an early sign of decline.

Directory ranking optimization

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How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

32 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5026 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-41% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

27

now · peak 63

2730d downloads · Sep 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Advanced Custom Fiel · #30182 you Advanced Custom Fiel · #28 ACF Content Analysis · #296 Advanced Custom Fiel · #449

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.7Stars · Sep 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

2.7Kper 1k installs · Sep 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈19

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-09-28 · 1,385 observations

10Installs · Sep 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. A declining trend compresses what a buyer would pay.

Ratings · 3 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
13.8y ago
Added
2012-11-27 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.3
Tested up to
3.4.2
Requires PHP
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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 3 reviews to 2014-02-25
Deteriorating PraiseBroken updatesCompatibility

Early reviewers were delighted with how much time it saved them, but the most recent review says the menu field doesn't show up at all on newer WordPress and ACF versions.

Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ sagalbot
    12.5y ago

    Seems to be broken on WordPress 3.8.1, running ACF 4.3.4. Menu field didn’t show up.

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  2. ★★★★★ seansean11
    13.7y ago

    You just saved me a whole bunch of time!

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  3. ★★★★★ Dora.Moldovan
    13.8y ago

    Great work!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-10-08 20+ → 10+ down after 465 days in tier
  2. 2024-06-30 30+ → 20+ down after 102 days in tier
  3. 2024-03-20 20+ → 30+ up after 3 days in tier
  4. 2024-03-17 30+ → 20+ down after 308 days in tier
  5. 2023-05-14 40+ → 30+ down after 22 days in tier
  6. 2023-04-22 30+ → 40+ up after 11 days in tier
  7. 2023-04-11 40+ → 30+ down

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Advanced Custom Fields – Menu Field add-on: 10+ active installs, 3.7★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/advanced-custom-fields-menu-field-add-on