Advanced Forms for ACF

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55 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 11 listed. 44 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 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 · 88% 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 20 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ zebomfim

   3.7y ago

   Great plugin, and the support is excellent, the developers have done a great job.

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2. ★★★★★ Adrian Mörchen

   4.5y ago

   This plugin is a very good addition to the already very good and high-quality ACF. I was a long time user of Caldera Forms, which never was good (very poor quality). As developer, I often had to customize forms… this always was a struggle with Caldera Forms, but worked… And lately a user of its successor Ninja Forms (Pro)… Unfortunately, Ninja Forms doesn’t stand to its advertising… support, quality.. Because of the general very high quality of ACF I always wanted to switch to ACF based forms, but hesitated because of ACF itself. (I’m a long term user of ACF pro too and using it in nearly every project). The problem with ACF is its quite “end user unfriendly” and very technical UI… But after another frustrating project using Ninja Forms, I bit the bullet and switched to Advanced Forms (Pro) and Advanced Custom Fields Pro. And I only regret not to have done this earlier. The pros just outweigh the cons multiple times… (To admit: I currently only use it in projects where the end user has not to work with the forms directly. This might be a problem in the future, but maybe not.)

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3. ★★★★★ neuromorph

   4.8y ago

   Advanced Forms Pro is an essential component to our patient and animal intake system – a system which integrates Acuity Scheduling, WordPress-ACF, Zapier and Google Workspace apps. AF Pro’s API is used to pre-fill ACF form fields with URL query string values initially generated in Acuity. After that, AF Pro’s Zapier API passes to Google raw field values, and computed values, which populate placeholders inside a G-Doc template. Then, automatically created Workspace folders receive new intake G-Docs derived from the populated templates. The folders also receive image files passed to Google via AF Pro’s Zapier integration. Largely thanks to AF Pro, and Fabian’s outstanding tech support, I was able to pull this whole thing off. My client is absolutely over-the-moon at all the functionality and subsequent tremendous time savings the system is providing them. Thank you! This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by neuromorph.

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4. ★★★★★ drl

   4.9y ago

   This is a really useful set of tools for those of us who rely on ACF. Goes way beyond the basic field and form interface with a whole host of ready to use helper functions. Well documented and clear.

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5. ★★★★★ blurFactor New Media, LLC

   5.0y ago

   We’ve used the pro version of Advanced Forms for a couple of years and could not be happier with the functionality and support. This is a great solution for forms, and it’s especially useful when collecting user-submitted content. Can’t recommend Advanced Forms and the folks at Hookturn enough. We’ve used all three of their pro plugins and they are all of excellent quality.

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6. ★★★★★ markuschv

   5.0y ago

   I luckily stumbled upon Advanced Forms when I had a client with many special requirements. The form had to have some different ACF-fields (maps, image upload, …), mutli-step with a lot of conditional fields, hidden calculated fields and custom validation of some elements. It’s used for registered users to submit events (Custom Post Type), which then will be marked as pending and an email is sent to the revisor for approval. I couldn’t find any other Form-Plugin plugin that met all of the special requirements, and was about code the form myself. Needles to say, Advanced Forms Pro saved me a lot of headache and development time. Also: Great support PS: The provided filters and actions are very powerfull!

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7. ★★★★★ stirrell42

   5.0y ago

   Wonderful product for making custom forms. If you are a user of Advanced Custom Fields, this is a great tool to add to your workflow.

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8. ★★★★★ Renaud Hamelin

   5.0y ago

   Using this without fear, because it’s simple and usual as it’s based on ACF that is mostly well know, and because products from Hookturn are always carefully tailored, and with a small teams taking time to perfect the products. And they are very opened and easy to contact and discuss with.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.9.3.8 Security: Fixed a missing authorization check on the form import handler. An unauthenticated request to admin-post.php could overwrite an existing form (identified by its publicly visible form key) and inject stored cros 1.9.3.8
2. — Version 1.9.3.7 Added copy-to-clipboard button for the shortcode field on the form edit screen. Pro Fixed issue where HTML in integration field labels was escaped by ACF 6.7+. 1.9.3.7
3. — Version 1.9.3.6 Fixed bug preventing taxonomy terms from loading in field’s conditional logic settings. 1.9.3.6
4. — Version 1.9.3.5 Added the af/form/field_groups filter to allow modification and reordering of field groups. 1.9.3.5
5. — Version 1.9.3.4 Added the af/form/submission/value filter to allow modification of submission values before they are processed. 1.9.3.4
6. — Version 1.9.3.3 Added capability and nonce checks to prevent unauthorized export of form JSON. 1.9.3.3

All 3 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (1.9.3.8). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 5.3 Advanced Forms for ACF <= 1.9.3.7 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2026-07-07 CVE-2026-57378 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.9.3.7 Patched in 1.9.3.8
2. Patched Medium · 5.3 Advanced Forms for ACF <= 1.9.3.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Form Settings Export ↗
   2024-02-05 CVE-2024-1121 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.9.3.2 Patched in 1.9.3.3
3. Patched High · 8.8 Advanced Forms for ACF <= 1.6.8 - Insecure Direct Object Reference ↗
   2020-06-27 CVE-2021-24892 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affects < 1.6.9 Patched in 1.6.9

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 10 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. 2025-03-21 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2025-03-20 3K+ → 4K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2025-03-17 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2025-03-16 3K+ → 4K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2025-03-15 4K+ → 3K+ down after 7 days in tier
6. 2025-03-08 3K+ → 4K+ up after 1756 days in tier
7. 2020-05-17 2K+ → 3K+ up after 411 days in tier
8. 2019-04-02 1K+ → 2K+ up after 298 days in tier

Competes with

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