ACF Columns

Description

With the ACF Columns plugin it is possible to arrange ACF fields in column groups in the post editor.

Conditional Logic can now be used over different columns with the new ACF 5.7

For each column add a Column Field to your field group and define the width for this column. You can select between 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, etc. columns. To close a row you have to add a Column Field with the value ‘Reset’.

This plugin works only with the ACF PRO (version 5.4.0 or higher).

Localizations

English
Deutsch

Installation

Upload the acf-columns folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Done!

Screenshots

Example for a field group with column fields. This field group ...
... split the fields in two columns in page/post editor
Works in tabs as well

Faq

ACF conditional logic doesn’t works across different columns

If you are using a ACF version prior to 5.7 you can’t use the ACF conditional logic on fields across different columns.

Unfortunately, the problem is how ACF uses conditional logic. Both of the conditional logic fields (the conditional logic field and the field containing the value for the logic) must have the same parent element in the DOM.

However, since the column plugin have to modify the DOM tree, so that the columns can be split, the conditional logic only works in one column.

Reviews

Very useful plugin

By gavin310 on February 7, 2023

I've used this plugin for years and it's always worked great

Awesome little plugin!

By Joe Bloggs on June 14, 2021

Really great little plugin. Deserves to be looked after. Many thanks!

Simply do the job

By charlybd on December 27, 2018

Great plugin to organise ACF back-end !

Great Plugin, Works Perfectly

By aliashiquemohammad on October 4, 2018

I used this plugin recently and it really help me to organized my ACF fields. Thank you for the wonderful plugin.

Does just what it says!

By jvwx (enfueggo) on August 30, 2018

Thanks for this. Great way to clean up and condense a lot of ACF fields.

Works great, people are just dumb

By lucasbustamante on March 27, 2018

Nice work there man, thanks a lot for such a useful plugin!

A good start

By muzKore (muzoid) on March 26, 2018

I actually tried to use this plugin but found it awkward and it broke the visual layout of the admin entry fields. Having said that, it is a creative use of ACF and does have numerous possibilities and I could see how this could work in the right circumstances. If the WordPress / ACF API did allow setting up rows with columns in the same manner as this plugin, it would be awesome. A good start!

Unfortunately it doesn't work within ACF tabs

By jDelforge (joDelicious) on February 28, 2018

This plugin is a good idea, but you can't use it within tabs.

Great enhancement to ACF interfaces

By Alain (alainotjens) on October 25, 2017

Adding functionality I was missing for creating better ACF interfaces. Danke!

Great Great Great plugin!

By Asifur Rahman (aj0ob) on May 7, 2017

I was trying to customize the layout of frontend form and couldn't do it with JS. detach and append wasn't working, advanced custom field wasn't saving field contents and many more problem. But this thing worked perfectly. Thanks to the developer. Please add some screenshot and more descriptive info here. I was confused and couldn't decide if this is the plugin I am looking for.

Changelog

v1.2.5

PHP 8 Support

v1.2.3

Minor CSS changes

v1.2.2

Minor CSS changes

v1.2.1

Added support for RTL languages

v1.2.0

Added compatibility for ACF 5.7 and newer

v1.1.0

Added CSS styling to support the new ACF Accordion field type (new in ACF 5.6.6) in columns
Changed class name to prevent future conflicts with ACF

v1.0.0

Initial release of this plugin, tested and stable.