10 Best Advanced Custom Fields Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Advanced Custom Fields has 20,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Advanced Custom Fields
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Smart Custom Fields
Closest match4.9 (20) 50,000+ active installsSmart Custom Fields is a simple plugin for managing custom fields.
Shares the field tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated July 16, 2026.
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5.0 (23) 9,000+ active installsA plugin to add masks in the form’s fields.
Shares the field tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated May 23, 2026.
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Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field
4.9 (36) 90,000+ active installsAdds a new 'Font Awesome Icon' field to the popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
Shares the acf tag on WordPress.org. About 4.5 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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4.9 (59) 50,000+ active installsA Table Field Add-on for the Advanced Custom Fields and Secure Custom Fields Plugin.
Shares the acf tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
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4.0 (29) 60,000+ active installsA lightweight extension of Advanced Custom Field (ACF) that adds Photo Gallery field to any post/pages on your WordPress website.
Shares the acf tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated December 26, 2025.
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Advanced Custom Fields: Extended
4.8 (132) 100,000+ active installsAll-in-one enhancement suite that improves WordPress & Advanced Custom Fields.
Shares the acf tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 11 days ago.
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Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)
4.5 (1,438) 2 million+ active installsACF helps customize WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields. Proudly powering over 2 million sites, WordPress developers love ACF.
Shares the acf tag on WordPress.org. About 100 times the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
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Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields
4.8 (418) 100,000+ active installsPods is a framework for creating, managing, and deploying customized content types and fields for any project.
About 5 times the installs, last updated 7 days ago.
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Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
4.8 (3,211) 200,000+ active installsTop-rated antispam for contact forms, comments, WooCommerce, eCommerce, and login. No CAPTCHAs, no friction, just background anti spam protection.
About 10 times the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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LoginPress
Paid version availableLoginPress | wp-login Custom Login Page Customizer
4.8 (1,075) 200,000+ active installsLoginPress is a Custom Login Page Customizer plugin allows you to easily customize the layout of login, admin login, client login, register pages.
About 10 times the installs, last updated July 10, 2026.
Switching from Advanced Custom Fields: common questions
What is the best alternative to Advanced Custom Fields?
Smart Custom Fields is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 50,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Advanced Custom Fields alternative has the most users?
Advanced Custom Fields, with 2 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Advanced Custom Fields alternative is rated highest?
Table Field Add-on for ACF and SCF, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 59 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Advanced Custom Fields alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Advanced Custom Fields score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Advanced Custom Fields on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Smart Custom Fields is the closest match to Advanced Custom Fields by the data we track, and Advanced Custom Fields has the widest reach with 2 million+ active installs. CleanTalk shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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