Description
ACF On-The-Go lets site editors update Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) text and textarea field values right on the page where they appear, without opening WP-Admin.
- Edit your ACF text fields from the front-end of your website.
- Save time looking for the field in WP-Admin.
- See immediate results in the front-end.
- Changes are written straight to the database, so nothing is lost between the front-end edit and the admin view.
- Access is limited to logged-in users who can already edit the post being viewed.
- Developer & User friendly.
IMPORTANT
- For fields to be editable on the front-end, YOU MUST ADD ‘acfgo’ to the target ACF field’s ‘Wrapper Attributes -> Class’
- Right now the plugin only supports non-repeater text fields!
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Installation
Developer: – Go to the relevant ACF field group. – Find the field you wish to turn front-end editable. – On ‘Wrapper Attributes’ add the class ‘acfgo’. – Save the changes.
User: – Visit a page that has an editable text field – Click the small, blue pencil icon near the content you wish to update. – Enter new content, click ‘Update’. – That’s it! The new content is now set and is updated also in the DB.
FAQ
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I have installed and activated the plugin, but I still can’t see any changes on the frontend, why is that?
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Please make sure to put ‘acfgo’ in the target field’s class. You can do so by going to the field’s field-group page, then in the field attributes go to ‘Wrapper Attributes -> class’, type ‘acfgo’ and click ‘update’.
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What kind of ACF fields are supported?
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Right now the plugin works only for non-repeater text fields. We’re working on adding functionality to more kinds of fields.
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Contributors & Developers
“ACF On-The-Go” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.2
Release date: August 5th, 2026
- Security: full plugin audit confirmed the AJAX save handler is the only endpoint that accepts input, and it enforces both nonce verification and a per-post capability check.
- Version bump for WordPress.org relisting following the security review.
- Security: added nonce verification and per-post capability checks to the front-end save request.
- Security: escaped all dynamic front-end output to prevent stored XSS.
- Tested up to WordPress 7.0.2
- Fixed a text domain mismatch that prevented translations from loading correctly.
- Removed the manual textdomain loading call in favor of WordPress.org’s automatic translation loading.
- Localized the front-end dialog’s “Update” and “Close” button labels, which were previously hardcoded in English.
- Fixed a front-end JavaScript error that prevented the save dialog from closing and the success/no-change notice from appearing after a save (the response was parsed twice).
- Added support for Secure Custom Fields, the actively maintained successor to Advanced Custom Fields, as a recognized dependency.
- General code cleanup and WordPress Coding Standards fixes.
1.0
Release date: January 31st, 2020
- Initial release.