ACF Quick Edit Fields

53 Quality Score

Active Installs

20/30

At 30,000 active installs and strong exposure across the listed use cases, the plugin has a meaningful but narrow user base, well below the top ACF companion plugins like Admin Columns or ACF Extended.

Update Freshness

5/25

The last update on 2025-01-11 is very recent, which is a strong sign, but the overall maintenance score of 33 reflects concerns elsewhere, likely tied to limited recent activity beyond a single date or thin changelog evidence.

User Rating

14/15

A rating of 90 from 43 reviews is excellent and indicates real users are getting the value they expect from the plugin.

Support Health

8/15

With only 2 total support threads and 0 percent resolved, support responsiveness is essentially unproven, which is a meaningful risk for mission-critical sites.

WP Compatibility

8/15

Compatibility is a mixed picture: it requires only WordPress 4.7 and PHP 5.6, which is broad, but the tested-with ceiling of 6.7.5 and modest compatibility score suggest you should test it on a staging site before deploying.

Scores higher than 5% of indexed plugins

About

Enable Columns, Filters, Quick Edit and Bulk Edit for ACF Fields in WordPress List Tables

Active Installs 30k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.5/5

Last Updated 2025-01-11 2:27pm GMT

Requires WordPress 4.7+

Tested Up To 6.7.7

Requires PHP 5.6+

Security History

1 known vulnerability, all patched

1 Medium

Most recent: December 5, 2022

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What It Does

ACF Quick Edit Fields adds WordPress list table functionality to Advanced Custom Fields, exposing your custom fields as admin columns, filters, and inline quick edit or bulk edit controls for posts, pages, and custom post types. It saves content managers from opening each item individually to change a custom field value, which is especially useful on data-heavy sites with hundreds or thousands of entries.

Who It's For

This plugin is built for site owners and content managers running ACF-powered post types such as real estate listings, job boards, event calendars, product catalogs, directories, and multi-author publishing platforms where quick inline editing of custom field values is part of the daily workflow. It is best suited to teams comfortable managing custom field groups who want to reduce repetitive clicks without building a custom admin.

Who Should Skip It

If you only run a small blog or brochure site with a handful of posts and no serious ACF usage, this plugin is overkill and adds admin clutter you do not need. Anyone already happy with the ACF Extended plugin or who needs deeper admin column and filtering control beyond quick edit will likely want a different solution.

The Bottom Line

ACF Quick Edit Fields does one specific job, exposing ACF fields as quick edit, bulk edit, columns, and filters, and it does it well enough to earn a strong 90 percent user rating. The unresolved support question marks and modest compatibility testing limit the overall quality score to 56.76, so treat it as a useful tool for ACF-heavy workflows rather than a universally safe add-on. Test it on staging, especially on PHP 8+ environments and the latest WordPress, before relying on it in production.

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Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) 94/100

Pick ACF itself first if you do not already have it installed, since this plugin depends on it entirely.

Admin Columns 85/100

Choose Admin Columns if you want broader and more polished admin column and filtering control across any post type, even without ACF-specific quick edit features.

Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 84/100

Pick ACF Extended if you want built-in columns, quick edit, and many other ACF productivity tools bundled into a single actively maintained plugin.

Advanced Custom Fields: Font Awesome Field 84/100

Choose this only if your specific gap is an icon picker field, which is unrelated to the admin list editing this plugin provides.

Table Field Add-on for ACF and SCF 83/100

Pick this if your bottleneck is rendering repeating tabular ACF data on the front end rather than editing custom fields inline in the admin.