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Ajax Load More for Advanced Custom Fields

by Darren Cooney · Uncategorized

Also makes 7 other plugins · 36.9K+ installs across the portfolio →

Ajax Load More extension that adds compatibility with various field types for Advanced Custom Fields.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
74 Health · B
Maintenance 73/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

74 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

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.

84 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 81/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 56/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-15% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

434

now · peak 1.4K

42730d 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

Ajax Load More for A · #4546 you Advanced Custom Fiel · #2361 Advanced Custom Fiel · #9785 ACF Fold Flexible Co · #10307

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.6Stars · Aug 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.

214per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

1

releases in the last 12 months

10mo ago

latest release · v1.4.0

10

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4.0 · 10mo ago1.3.4 · 1.2y ago1.3.3 · 1.7y ago1.3.2 · 3.2y ago1.3.1 · 3.7y ago1.2.0 · 6.9y ago1.1.2 · 7.3y ago1.1.1 · 8.0y ago1.1 · 8.9y ago1.0 · 9.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 51% 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 51%
v1.3 44%
Older / other versions 4.5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.9K

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

Install history · since 2017-07-03 · 1,435 observations

2KInstalls · 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.

Details

Version
1.4.0
Last updated
10mo ago
Added
2017-05-04 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
6.8.8
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. alexiusgrey
    4.2y ago

    With your support I realized my task, ACF flexible content with ajax loading.

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  2. MarkJ
    6.1y ago

    I couldn’t make it work, documentation is not clear enough, it’s confusing. Big con is that it needs another plugin which is quite large. This needs a standalone small solution. This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by MarkJ.

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  3. mebishwak090
    7.7y ago

    Such a helpful tool to create professional ajax loaded content on my website using ACF contents – thank you!

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  4. sadesades
    9.2y ago

    Works great a little confusion at the start but got it working after reading several times and following the author examples, works very nice with ACF galleries

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  5. gecko_guy
    9.3y ago

    Great, another superb addition to the Ajax Load More toolset. While it was possible to hand code the functions that this tool provides before, this plugin makes it simpler and faster to get things done. Less head scratching, more getting things done! Really nice, thanks Darren 🙂

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.4.0 NEW: Added support for Ajax Load More Cache 3.0. UPDATE: Various code cleanups and organization. 1.4.0
  2. Version 1.3.4 NEW: Adding Ajax Load More as a required plugin. UPDATE: Code cleanup, readme and WP tested version. 1.3.4
  3. Version 1.3.3 UPDATE: Readme, contributors, WordPress tested version 1.3.3
  4. Version 1.3.2 NEW: Added support for accessing sub field data in Repeater or Flexible Content field types by row index. UPDATE: Updated to add compatibility with Cache Add-on 2.0 and Ajax Load More 6.0. FIX: Fixed issue with broken Pa 1.3.2
  5. Version 1.3.1 FIX: Fixed issue with undefined $page variable when using Repeater field. FIX: Fixed issue with $alm_item variable being off in preloaded queries. UPDATE: Code cleanup and organization. 1.3.1
  6. Version 1.3.0.1 FIX – Fix for issue with Relationship field type show PHP warning message about undefined variable. 1.3.0.1

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3

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. 2024-11-30 3K+ → 2K+ down after 531 days in tier
  2. 2023-06-18 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2023-06-17 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2023-06-16 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2023-06-15 3K+ → 2K+ down after 2 days in tier
  6. 2023-06-13 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2023-06-12 3K+ → 2K+ down after 55 days in tier
  8. 2023-04-18 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier

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