ACF 6.2.1

Advanced Custom Fields version 6.2.1 is now available.

👨‍💻 Please find the release notes below. And for the latest ACF news, follow us on Twitter @wp_acf.

Changelog

• New – Options Pages created in the admin UI can now be assigned as child pages for any top-level menu item
• New – Added a “Title Placeholder” setting to ACF Post Types which filters the “Add title” text when editing posts
• Enhancement – ACF PRO will now warn when it can’t update due to PHP version incompatibilities
• Enhancement – ACF PRO will now work correctly with WordPress automatic updates
• Enhancement – The internal ACF Blocks template attribute parser function parseNodeAttr can now be shortcut with the new acf_blocks_parse_node_attr filter.
• Enhancement – Removed legacy code for supporting WordPress versions under 5.8
• Fix – The “Menu Position” setting is no longer hidden for child options pages
• Fix – The tabs for the “Advanced” settings in Post Types and Taxonomies are now rendered inside a wrapper div
• Fix – Options pages will no longer display as a child page in the list view when set to a top level page after previously being a child
• Fix – Conflict with Elementor CSS breaking the ACF PRO banner
• Fix – Errors generated during the block editor’s savePost function will no longer be caught and ignored by ACF

🙌 Thanks to everyone who helped make this release possible.

About the Author

Matt is a WordPress plugin developer located near Philadelphia, PA. He loves to create awesome new tools with PHP, JavaScript, and whatever else he happens to get his hands on.