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CiviCRM Profile Sync
Keeps a WordPress User profile in sync with a CiviCRM Contact and integrates WordPress and CiviCRM Entities when using Advanced Custom Fields.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 3
- Active installs
- 500+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 13 Nov 2025
- Added
- Jan 2015
- Requires WP
- 5.7
- Tested up to
- WP 6.8.8
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Downloads
- 21,377
Our analysis
AI-assistedCiviCRM Profile Sync is a WordPress plugin that synchronises user profile fields between WordPress and CiviCRM. It keeps the 'First Name', 'Last Name', 'Nickname', 'Email Address', and 'Website' fields in sync, regardless of where changes are made. The plugin also supports BuddyPress integration and allows for data syncing via Advanced Custom Fields (ACF).
This plugin is suitable for users who need to maintain consistent contact information across their WordPress site and CiviCRM. It is particularly useful for community sites using BuddyPress and those looking to leverage ACF for custom data integration.
Best for: This plugin suits community sites using WordPress and CiviCRM, particularly those leveraging BuddyPress and ACF.
What it does well
- ✓Syncs user profile fields between WordPress and CiviCRM
- ✓Supports BuddyPress integration for user profiles
- ✓Integrates with Advanced Custom Fields for custom data mapping
- ✓Allows form building with ACF Extended for CiviCRM data submission
Where it falls short
- •ACF integration is not fully comprehensive
- •Form building is limited to specific CiviCRM data types
Verdict
CiviCRM Profile Sync offers useful synchronisation features for WordPress users managing contacts in CiviCRM. Its limitations in ACF integration and form building may affect some users.
From the developer
Christian Wach's own description of CiviCRM Profile Sync, lightly tidied.
WordPress Integration
At its simplest, the CiviCRM Profile Sync plugin keeps the “First Name”, “Last Name”, “Nickname”, “Email Address” and “Website” fields of a WordPress User Profile in sync with their corresponding fields in a CiviCRM Contact. The synchronisation takes place regardless of whether the changes are made in WordPress or CiviCRM.
BuddyPress Integration
The plugin also supports syncing the “First Name” and “Last Name” fields of the WordPress User and CiviCRM Contact with BuddyPress when using the BP xProfile WordPress User Sync plugin. Further integration with BuddyPress is in the pipeline.
ACF Integration
CiviCRM Profile Sync enables integration between CiviCRM Entities and WordPress Entities with data synced via Advanced Custom Fields.
Whilst ACF integration is not complete in its coverage of the CiviCRM Entities that can be linked, it is fairly comprehensive in its mapping of the built-in CiviCRM Custom Field Types with their corresponding ACF Field Types.
So if, for example, you want to display (or create) a Contact Type on your WordPress site with ACF Fields that contain synced CiviCRM data, this feature could work for you.
Please refer to the ACF Integration Documentation for details.
Form-building with ACF Extended
CiviCRM Profile Sync enables Forms to be built for the front-end of your website with the UI provided by the ACF Extended plugin. These Forms can send their data directly to CiviCRM in a similar (though more limited) way to Caldera Forms CiviCRM.
Form building with ACF Extended is currently limited to submitting data for Contacts, Participants, Activities and Cases. This does, however, provide enough functionality to build some fairly powerful and useful Forms.
Please refer to the ACFE Form-building Documentation for details.
Requirements
This plugin recommends a minimum of WordPress 4.9 and CiviCRM 5.23. It also requires BuddyPress 3.0 and the BP XProfile WordPress User Sync plugin for syncing “First Name” and “Last Name” with BuddyPress profiles.
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