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Sync Advanced Custom Fields using WPChangeSync

Your field groups are the backbone of every template. Keep them identical across staging and production automatically, instead of exporting and re-importing JSON by hand every release.
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Why

Why sync Advanced Custom Fields using WPChangeSync?

Core capability

Keep Advanced Custom Fields identical across every site

WPChangeSync supports ACF natively. Field groups, ACF-registered post types and taxonomies, and options-page values move as structured JSON, together with the templates that read them. Change a field on staging, sync, and production matches exactly. No drift, no forgotten fields, no half-broken layouts after launch.

How

How to sync Advanced Custom Fields

Core capability

Advanced Custom Fields has native WPChangeSync support

WPChangeSync has built-in support for ACF: it syncs your field groups, ACF-registered post types and taxonomies, and options-page values as structured JSON, with dependencies handled automatically.

01

Select it in a workflow

Add Advanced Custom Fields to a sync workflow or batch job.

02

Dry run first

Preview exactly what will change before anything is applied.

03

Push and audit

Apply to the target site and review the audit trail.

What syncs

What WPChangeSync syncs for Advanced Custom Fields

Core capability

These are the Advanced Custom Fields pieces WPChangeSync captures as Git-friendly JSON, ready to move between your sites.

Synced

Field groups

Every ACF field group, with its rules and conditional logic.

Synced

Custom post types

Post types you registered through the ACF UI.

Synced

Taxonomies

ACF-registered taxonomies and their settings.

Synced

Options pages

Options-page values, including global site settings.

Synced

Field configuration

Field types, defaults, instructions and display rules.

FAQ

Common questions about syncing Advanced Custom Fields

What Advanced Custom Fields data can I sync with WPChangeSync?
WPChangeSync moves your field groups, custom post types, taxonomies, options pages and field configuration as Git-friendly JSON you can review, move between sites and roll back.
Is Advanced Custom Fields a native WPChangeSync integration?
Yes. Advanced Custom Fields is supported out of the box, so its data is exported and imported automatically, with dependencies resolved. There is nothing extra to set up.
Will syncing Advanced Custom Fields overwrite my live site?
No. WPChangeSync previews every change as a dry run and lets you choose exactly what to apply, with backups and one-click rollback if anything looks wrong.
Do I need Advanced Custom Fields active on both sites?
Yes. Keep Advanced Custom Fields active on the source and the target so its data has somewhere to land. WPChangeSync moves the configuration, and Advanced Custom Fields renders it.
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