Paid Add-ons stopped working

Hi @sonjoe

Unfortunately the ACF addons (Repeater, Gallery, Flexible Content and Options Page) were discontinued when ACF 5 was released back in 2018 by Elliot, and are no longer available for purchase or receiving updates. They are deprecated plugins that are only compatible with ACF up to version 5.12.

That being said, we will look into why they worked for you in 6.0.7 and not in 6.1 and if it’s possible to get them working again without a large amount of development, we will.

Please can you send on a the issue you are having (error messages, screenshot, debug log) to our support team through the form on https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/contact/.

I know this says resolved but I also have the same issue.

It worked without any problem on version 6 till 6.0.7. I just had to make few CSS edit because of UI.

@nanny7 Hey there, as Iain said above:

Unfortunately the ACF addons (Repeater, Gallery, Flexible Content and Options Page) were discontinued when ACF 5 was released back in 2018 by Elliot, and are no longer available for purchase or receiving updates. They are deprecated plugins that are only compatible with ACF up to version 5.12.

We’re currently still back porting security releases in ACF 5.12, with 5.12.5 released just this week, so if you need these legacy add-ons without a current ACF PRO licence, you can stick on ACF 5.12.x.

Thanks!

Just an update on this.

The plugins were supported for the duration of ACF 5, and continue to work on ACF 5.12.5, our latest release of ACF 5.

Those plugins will not behave as expected in ACF 6 or future versions, with various CSS errors appearing in the new UI. We do not recommend their use with any version of ACF beyond 5.12.5.

ACF 6.1 contains significant changes to the internals of ACF. Many file paths have changed, so legacy plugins which support subfields will no longer show the “subfields” section when editing the field.

If you wish to manually maintain these legacy add-on plugins, you will need to regain the subfields section in the field editor. You can do so by editing the $plugin/includes/5-7/$plugin_name.php file, and replacing:

acf_get_view('field-group-fields', $args);

With:

acf_get_view( 'acf-field-group/fields', $args );

Thanks Iain. I will look on it.

Thank Iain I will also look at that. It did work on 6.0.7 for me though.

If I were to purchase the pro how will I go about changing the content from the forms already filled out, which is a lot of custom post types. Will I lose what has already been put in?

@nanny7 If you were to purchase ACF PRO and install it on sites which have the legacy add-ons, you should be able to simply deactivate (and delete) the add-ons and your ACF fields will continue to work as is. We would always recommend taking a site backup before making upgrades like this.

I hate to say this was a d*** move on ACFs part, but hey if it walks like a duck. With the near ubiquity of automatic plugin updates, its hard to see it as anything else. That said, here’s a suggestions:

Add a function to ACF 6+ that will notify the user that an incompatible add-on was detected. Present the options of A) upgrade to a PRO license for continued use or B) Download ACF Classic to continue using them.

Obviously this will require releasing a new plugin, but come on.

Appreciate the suggestion @nichcitarella, we’ll look at adding that to the plugin to avoid confusion.

Is there a way to fix the gallery plugin as well? When I do a var dump it shows nothing. Also there are a few bits missing now that includes these:

Return Format
Specifies the format of the returned data. Choose from Array (array), URL (string), or ID (integer).

Preview Size
The WordPress image size displayed when editing.

It would be great to know how to fix please.