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Advanced Custom Fields: Widget

by alexvandervegt · Admin & Utilities

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A widget that is able to use content from an ACF field group

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 54 average across 3,793 Admin & Utilities plugins

100+

Active installs

≈150 estimated

8.6K

Total downloads

since 2014

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+11%

89

Downloads · 30d

category median +24%

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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34, 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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 5/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3766 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+11% vs prior 30d
2Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

89

now · peak 189

8930d 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 · #13461 you Blocksy Companion · #165 Widget Importer & Ex · #257 ACF Content Analysis · #296

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.

890per 1k installs · Aug 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 “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

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

Install history · since 2016-04-21 · 1,383 observations

100Installs · 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 · 1 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.2
Last updated
10.3y ago
Added
2014-08-02 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
4.3.34
Requires PHP
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  1. ★★★★★ Matt Gross
    11.0y ago

    The instructional screenshots could do with being added in English, but after figuring out what they represented this plugin was easy to use and fit my exact need.

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Behavioral tests

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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. 2026-03-18 200+ → 100+ down after 10 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-08 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-07 200+ → 100+ down after 25 days in tier
  4. 2026-02-10 100+ → 200+ up after 13 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-28 200+ → 100+ down after 908 days in tier
  6. 2023-08-04 300+ → 200+ down after 14 days in tier
  7. 2023-07-21 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2023-07-20 300+ → 200+ down after 16 days in tier

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