ACF Photo Gallery Field

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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63 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 14 listed. 49 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

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

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 53% 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 2.5 years ago; the previous band took 16 months to cross, which places it about 80% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ tazmandev

   10mo ago

   I have been using ACF Photo Gallery Field for about 4 years now, and it worked excelent. I use it with Elementor Pro and custom templates, and I am able to access the dinamic data in the gallery fields just like with ACF Pro. Many thanks to the builder for this excelent plugin!

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2. ★★★★★ qbey

   2.5y ago

   Does not work inside ACF fields groups. Simply does not saving any selected images. Also, if a lot images was added, sometimes spontaneously losing all of them when saving the post. Updated 05.13.2024. Changed rating to 1 star. Details below.

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3. ★★★★★ pedrocunhaweb

   3.2y ago

   It works perfectly! thanks Devs! This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by pedrocunhaweb.

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4. ★★★★★ Zohaib Ali

   3.3y ago

   It gives Fatal Error! This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Zohaib Ali.

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5. ★★★★★ pmachart

   3.9y ago

   excellent plugin does just what it says it does. check out my quick and dirty shortcode implementation for it on wpcodebin .com/code/443bp5

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6. ★★★★★ joexcm

   4.2y ago

   Not sure what other people are doing but this worked perfectly for me going into the Elementor image carousel widget. Thanks to the developer

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7. ★★★★★ carlosjunod

   4.3y ago

   It seems a very good alternative for the official Gallery-Field from ACF. But after many tries, I couldn’t get it to work with the WPGraphQL plugin.

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8. ★★★★★ shivd

   4.3y ago

   i am unable to implement the it on my page can u help me the description is not helping

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.5.0 [Added] Support for SVG [Added] Support for legacy PHP version [Added] Add extra fields 1.5.0
2. — Version 1.4.0 [Added] Can sortable gallery images [Bugfix] Fixed the order to follow the sort order for gallery images 1.4.0
3. — Version 1.3.0 Change the meta_key from acf field_key to acf field_name [Added] Helper function acf_photo_gallery() to pull images [Added] Helper function acf_photo_gallery_resize_image to resize the image on fly and save it [Bugfix] I 1.3.0
4. — Version 1.2.0 [Bugfix] Support for WordPress 4.6 [Added] Some changes on on the display [Added] Fetch the data from the database 1.2.0
5. — Version 1.1.0 [Bugfix] Undefined index: acf-photo-gallery-field on file acf-photo_gallery-v4 [Bugfix] When delete the photos from the gallery, the last photo was not deleting [Bugfix] Gallery photos was not saving in the database 1.1.0
6. — Version 1.0.0 Initial Release. 1.0.0

All 4 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (3.1). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 4.3 ACF Photo Gallery Field <= 3.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Attachment Metadata Modification ↗
   2026-02-18 CVE-2025-12081 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.0 Patched in 3.1
2. Patched Medium · 4.3 ACF Photo Gallery Field <= 2.6 - Missing Authorization in apgf_update_donation ↗
   2024-01-30 CVE-2024-23518 Missing Authorization Affects <= 2.6 Patched in 2.7
3. Patched Medium · 4.3 ACF Photo Gallery Field <= 1.9 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Usermeta Update ↗
   2023-07-26 CVE-2023-3957 Improper Authorization Affects <= 1.9 Patched in 2.0
4. Patched Medium · 6.1 ACF Photo Gallery Field <= 1.7.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2021-12-20 CVE-2021-24909 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.7.4 Patched in 1.7.5

Translated into 3 languages, 2 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. 2024-05-08 50K+ → 60K+ up after 468 days in tier
2. 2023-01-26 40K+ → 50K+ up after 215 days in tier
3. 2022-06-25 30K+ → 40K+ up after 262 days in tier
4. 2021-10-06 20K+ → 30K+ up after 377 days in tier
5. 2020-09-24 10K+ → 20K+ up after 507 days in tier
6. 2019-05-06 1K+ → 10K+ up

Competes with

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ACF Photo Gallery Field: 60K+ active installs, 4.0★ (29 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-04. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/navz-photo-gallery