Advanced Custom Fields: Widget Area Field

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1. ★★★★★ Smat Placid

   10.0y ago

   I am using the latest ACF Version 5.4.2 and the latest of WP. It works like a charme! Thank you very much, good job!

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2. ★★★★★ Adam

   11.2y ago

   Works well and happy with the results. Can add a widget area using the plugin, allowing for dynamic layouts. It would be great if the plugin could instantiate widgets directly (whether it does it own virtual widget area mapping). This way we can have more control over what the user can instantiate and don’t have to create widget areas for every different instance of content.

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3. ★★★★★ htz77

   11.8y ago

   Fantastic! This fixes one of the biggest problems with using WordPress for client sites.. letting them easily set the widget-area for each page, rather than hardcoding it into templates. I know other plugins add a UI to each Widget, to set which pages/posts it appears on. But it’s more intuitive for clients to select a widget-area while on a page. One suggestion — if the ui were checkboxes (rather than a dropdown), multiple widget-areas could be added to a page, rather than just one. And one step better, would be to enable the checkboxes to be sortable by dragging.

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4. ★★★★★ andiszek

   11.9y ago

   Works as expected and it has been updated for ACF 5/Pro. Thanks!

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5. ★★★★★ JoshRowland

   12.2y ago

   This plugin is great. There is just a bug or two that needS to be worked out. Mainly, referring to my support ticket here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/needs-output-buffering

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

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-11-06 500+ → 400+ down after 324 days in tier
2. 2024-12-17 600+ → 500+ down after 17 days in tier
3. 2024-11-30 700+ → 600+ down after 24 days in tier
4. 2024-11-06 800+ → 700+ down after 327 days in tier
5. 2023-12-15 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2023-12-14 800+ → 900+ up after 3 days in tier
7. 2023-12-11 900+ → 800+ down after 2 days in tier
8. 2023-12-09 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• A Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field 8K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags D
• Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) 2M+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• Blocksy Companion 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Widget Importer & Exporter 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO 100K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B

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Advanced Custom Fields: Widget Area Field: 400+ active installs, 4.8★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/advanced-custom-fields-widget-area-field