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Advanced Custom Fields – Taxonomy Field add-on

by Brian Zoetewey · Uncategorized

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Adds a Taxonomy Field to Advanced Custom Fields. Select one or more taxonomy terms and assign them to the post.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

1K+

Active installs

≈1.9K estimated

14.4K

Total downloads

since 2012

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+40%

132

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 14+ 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.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

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

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5134 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+40% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

132

now · peak 160

13030d downloads · Aug 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 · #5721 you Advanced Custom Fiel · #9591 ACF: Google Map Exte · #7699 ACF: Multiple Taxono · #8661

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.

130per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

14.1y ago

latest release · v1.4

7

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4 · 14.1y ago1.3.1 · 14.1y ago1.3 · 14.1y ago1.2 · 14.1y ago1.1.1 · 14.3y ago1.1 · 14.4y ago1.0 · 14.6y ago

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.

v1.4 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

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

Install history · since 2015-03-21 · 1,421 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 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.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.4
Last updated
14.1y ago
Added
2012-02-09 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.2
Tested up to
3.4.2
Requires PHP
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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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. 2024-11-14 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2024-11-13 1K+ → 2K+ up after 4 days in tier
  3. 2024-11-09 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2024-11-08 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2024-11-06 2K+ → 1K+ down after 364 days in tier
  6. 2023-11-08 3K+ → 2K+ down after 34 days in tier
  7. 2023-10-05 4K+ → 3K+ down

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