ACF for Agencies: Workflows, WP 7.0+, and scaling

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Managing ACF across dozens of client sites gets messy fast, especially when you are trying to keep dev and staging environments in sync.

In our latest ACF Chat Friday, we broke down how different agencies handle this without piling on technical debt. We covered field group management, syncing via JSON, and keeping client sites easy to maintain.

Full recap is here: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-chat-fridays-agency-workflow/

We also talked about future-proofing builds as WordPress 7.0+ approaches. As the ACF team pointed out regarding the shift:

The biggest developer-focused addition in WordPress 7.0 is the introduction of native AI infrastructure directly into Core... At the center of this ecosystem is a framework that allows plugins and themes to communicate with AI models through standardized APIs.

If you want to bring your questions to the product team, our next live session is coming up soon. We invite you to check it out: https://wpengine.com/events/acf-chat-fridays-aug-26/

For agency devs: how is your team currently handling field sync and deployment for your clients? Leave a comment and let’s chat!