Advanced Custom Fields 5.9.0

Does Advanced Custom Fields work with WordPress 5.5.1 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
No PHP errors, warnings or notices
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Looks good! No problems were detected.
Performance

Memory usage: 959.93 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.175 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.5.1
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 2,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
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Pages 5

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=c5fc905a49
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.477 s
Memory usage 3.69 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Custom Fields

Page screenshot: Custom Fields
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.228 s
Memory usage 3.71 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Custom Fields → Add New

Page screenshot: Custom Fields → Add New
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=acf-field-group
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.686 s
Memory usage 3.82 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Custom Fields → Tools

Page screenshot: Custom Fields → Tools
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group&page=acf-tools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.269 s
Memory usage 3.66 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 0.261 s
Memory usage 3.39 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.526 s0.333 s-0.193 s2.75 MiB3.66 MiB+ 929.21 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.245 s0.342 s+0.097 s2.8 MiB3.71 MiB+ 935.51 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.723 s2.948 s+1.225 s4.54 MiB5.54 MiB+ 1020.26 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.645 s0.929 s+0.284 s2.63 MiB3.64 MiB+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.181 s0.201 s+0.020 s2.64 MiB3.52 MiB+ 894.7 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.214 s0.206 s-0.008 s2.6 MiB3.51 MiB+ 927.52 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.205 s0.274 s+0.069 s2.64 MiB3.66 MiB+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.604 s2.055 s+0.451 s4.53 MiB5.52 MiB+ 1010.58 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.337 s0.324 s-0.013 s2.61 MiB3.51 MiB+ 927.83 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.226 s0.260 s+0.034 s2.65 MiB3.61 MiB+ 990.74 KiB
/0.349 s0.311 s-0.038 s2.56 MiB3.39 MiB+ 849.73 KiB
Average 0.569 s0.744 s+0.175 s3 MiB3.93 MiB+ 959.93 KiB

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 1

Custom Post Types 2

ID Name
acf-field-groupField Groups
acf-fieldFields

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Advanced Custom Fields Admin Menus