Advanced Custom Fields 6.6.2

Does Advanced Custom Fields work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 1.36 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.427 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 2,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
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Pages 7

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=advanced-custom-fields%2Facf.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=f57fd0111d
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.478 s
Memory usage 5.32 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

ACF

Page screenshot: ACF
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.466 s
Memory usage 5.1 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

ACF → Post Types

Page screenshot: ACF → Post Types
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-post-type
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.570 s
Memory usage 5.05 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

ACF → Taxonomies

Page screenshot: ACF → Taxonomies
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-taxonomy
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.562 s
Memory usage 5.05 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

ACF → Options Pages

Page screenshot: ACF → Options Pages
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group&page=acf_options_preview
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.203 s
Memory usage 5.01 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

ACF → Tools

Page screenshot: ACF → Tools
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group&page=acf-tools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.479 s
Memory usage 5.05 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.381 s
Memory usage 5.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.548 s0.474 s-0.074 s3.78 MiB5.06 MiB+ 1.28 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.371 s0.305 s-0.066 s3.78 MiB5.09 MiB+ 1.3 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.857 s3.282 s+2.425 s6.31 MiB8.05 MiB+ 1.74 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.646 s0.982 s+0.336 s3.74 MiB5.11 MiB+ 1.37 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.335 s0.338 s+0.003 s3.71 MiB4.96 MiB+ 1.25 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.500 s0.320 s-0.180 s3.7 MiB4.96 MiB+ 1.26 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.428 s0.402 s-0.026 s3.72 MiB5.06 MiB+ 1.35 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.686 s2.899 s+2.213 s6.3 MiB8.04 MiB+ 1.74 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.338 s0.436 s+0.098 s3.72 MiB4.96 MiB+ 1.25 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.323 s0.353 s+0.030 s3.74 MiB4.98 MiB+ 1.24 MiB
/0.269 s0.202 s-0.067 s4.12 MiB5.3 MiB+ 1.18 MiB
Average 0.482 s0.908 s+0.427 s4.24 MiB5.6 MiB+ 1.36 MiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PO File
PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PO File84.6%165,98696,89950
PHP15.0%29,40722,043223
SVG0.2%4130108
JavaScript0.2%4032251
CSS0.0%2611
JSON0.0%2601
Markdown0.0%1501
Total 196,276 119,168 385

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 25,180
Total complexity 5,030
Median class complexity 18.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class ACF_Post_Type
Most complex function ACF\Site_Health\Site_Health::get_site_health_values()
Classes 121
Methods 1,011
Functions 567

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Options wp_options 3

User Metadata wp_usermeta 3

Custom Post Types 4

ID Name
acf-taxonomyTaxonomies
acf-post-typePost Types
acf-field-groupField Groups
acf-fieldFields

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[02-Dec-2025 21:00:07 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:00:07 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:00:19 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:00:19 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Advanced Custom Fields Admin Menus