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Advanced Custom Fields: Validated Field
The Validated Field add-on for Advanced Custom Fields provides input masking and server-side validation of other field types.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.5★ from 22
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 19 Aug 2015
- Added
- Sep 2012
- Requires WP
- 3.0
- Tested up to
- WP 4.3.34
- Downloads
- 18,908
Our analysis
AI-assistedThe Advanced Custom Fields: Validated Field plugin is an add-on for Advanced Custom Fields that enhances input handling through client-side masking and server-side validation. It allows you to enforce data formats, ensure uniqueness of field values, and manage field visibility based on conditions.
This plugin is suitable for developers looking to create custom fields with robust validation features. It is particularly useful for multilingual sites and those needing to maintain data integrity across various post types.
Best for: Developers creating custom fields that require validation and formatting.
What it does well
- ✓Provides client-side input masking
- ✓Offers server-side validation with PHP
- ✓Ensures uniqueness of field values
- ✓Compatible with multilingual sites using WPML
- ✓Allows fields to be marked as read-only
Where it falls short
- •Requires Advanced Custom Fields version 4.0 or greater
- •Last updated in August 2015, may not support newer WordPress versions
- •Limited information available on user experience
Verdict
This plugin offers useful validation features for Advanced Custom Fields, but its age and update history may limit compatibility with newer WordPress versions.
From the developer
doublesharp's own description of Advanced Custom Fields: Validated Field, lightly tidied.
Validated Field Add-On
The Validated Field add-on for Advanced Custom Fields
provides a wrapper for other input types which allows you to provide client side input masking using the jQuery
Masked Input Plugin, server side validation using either PHP regular expressions
or PHP code, the option of ensuring a field’s uniqueness for all posts by post_type and meta_key, post_type, or site wide, or a
single post by meta_key, as well as marking a field as read-only. Edit your fields in the ACF Field Group editor and update code using the ACE.js
IDE with autocomplete and syntax validation.
Features
- Input Masking – easily set masks on text inputs to ensure data is properly formatted.
- Server-Side Validation – validate the inputs using server side PHP code or regular expressions.
- Uniqueness – ensure that the value being updated is not already in use.
- Repeater Fields – validated fields within a Repeater Field.
- Read Only – specify a field as read-only allowing it to be displayed but not updated.
- WordPress Multi Language – compatible with multilingual sites using the WPML plugin.
- Conditional Logic – show and hide validated fields based on the values of other “switch” fields.
Compatibility
Requires Advanced Custom Fields version 4.0 or greater.
Tagged as
platform
Advanced Custom Fields
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