Meta Field Block

1.5.2

Release Date – 02 March 2026

• Added – New “Enable Strict Mode” setting. When enabled, only custom fields exposed via the REST API can be displayed on the frontend
• Security – Restricted access to private user custom fields and core settings fields to Administrators only. Private custom fields for posts and terms are validated against their respective capabilities.
• Improved – Updated UI settings styling to better match the WordPress 7.0 design
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Added a “Fill Available Width” option to the Repeater row layout, allowing items to either stretch to fill the full width or keep their natural size

1.5.1

Release Date – 19 January 2026

• Fixed – (MFB Pro) Bound blocks were not displayed in the pattern preview
• Fixed – (MFB Pro) Context data was not available when using a block inside a pattern

1.5.0

Release Date – 15 January 2026

• Added – Display subfields for the Terms Query block.
• Added – (MFB Pro) Display taxonomy fields as a Terms Query.
• Improved – Handle field context based on the loop context.
• Improved – Display WYSIWYG fields in block format to prevent margin collapsing.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Display a repeater field as an accordion block.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Handle carousel previews inside repeater fields.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Add a “link to term” option for taxonomy’s image fields.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Use native block binding when rendering “video” fields as core/video blocks.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Add display settings to the MFB Query Loop variation.
• Improved – Moved Freemius into the vendor directory.
• Refactored – Improved the code to support more providers.

1.4.6

Release Date – 18 November 2025

• Improved – Removed _source names from the suggested list for Secure Custom Field (SCF)
• Improved – Passed block settings to the meta_field_block_get_acf_field and meta_field_block_get_mb_field hooks.
• Added – (MFB Pro) Support for displaying ACF Google Map fields.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Support for displaying taxonomy fields as a list of term names.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Improved handling of carousel scripts when hosts or cache plugins defer or delay the script.

1.4.5

Release Date – 10 September 2025

• Improved – Refactored the code to support additional add-ons.
• Fixed – Double formatting issue on ACF textarea fields.

1.4.4

Release Date – 24 June 2025

• Fixed – (MFB Pro) Bound ACF True/False field to the “open by default” attribute of the details block.
• Fixed – (MFB Pro) Corrected preview styling for single carousel effects.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Removed unnecessary values when selecting paths for SFB, background image, video, or overlay color.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Added support for selecting sub-paths when binding a text field as the label for a bound button.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Added support for selecting sub-paths when binding a URL field as the URL for a bound image.

1.4.3

Release Date – 17 June 2025

• Improved – Added error handling for get_term_link to prevent string casting errors.
• Added – (MFB Pro) Allowed binding a text field as the label for a button created from a URL field.
• Added – (MFB Pro) Displaying a group field as a details block, and displaying a repeater or cloned group as an accordion.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Allowed selecting a field path for sub-field blocks instead of entering it manually.

1.4.2

Release Date – 12 May 2025

• Improved – Ignored the cloneable setting for Meta Box image-related and choice-related field types
• Added – (MFB Pro) Set a video sub-field as the background video of a parent group field.
• Added – (MFB Pro) Bind a sub color field to the overlay color feature.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Handle missing media uploads for button and image block bindings.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Render only one item as the fallback value for a single ACF Post Object field.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Allow displaying the sample ID input setting when choosing the meta type as ‘post’ and the current post type is not post or page

1.4.1

Release Date – 28 April 2025

• Fixed – (MFB Pro) The target attribute of the ACF link was not binding correctly.
• Fixed – (MFB Pro) Removed the duplicate store registration warning.
• Fixed – (MFB Pro) Error when the hosting environment does not support mb_encode_numericentity.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Preload layout for carousels is now calculated correctly before the script executes.
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Don’t show carousel preview in the Block Editor on Mobile and Tablet modes
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Some small adjustments on the carousel layout

1.4

Release Date – 14 April 2025

• Added – Supported most of field types for the Meta Box framework.
• Added – (MFB Pro) Display the ACF repeater field in a carousel layout besides group, row, stack and grid layout.
• Added – (MFB Pro) Display the ACF gallery field as a carousel of images.
• Added – (MFB Pro) Set an image sub-field as the background image of a parent group field.
• Added – (MFB Pro) Most Meta Box complex fields have PRO features similar to ACF fields.
• Added – [MFB Pro] Background overlay and doutone to background images.
• Improved – [MFB Pro] Add block bindings to image and button blocks.
• Added – Supported displaying post title with MFB.
• Added – Shadow, heading color support features.
• Improved – Add new hook meta_field_block_ignore_wrapper_block to allow omitting the block wrapper, prefix, suffix in the output.
• Improved – Add new hook meta_field_block_ignore_prefix_suffix to allow omitting the prefix, suffix in the output.
• Improved – Add new hook meta_field_block_get_block_wrapper_extra_attributes to allow adding custom attributes to the block wrapper.
• Changed – Replace the hook meta_field_block_acf_field_true_false_on_text by the hook meta_field_block_true_false_on_text. The new hook can be applied to both ACF and Meta Box fields.
• Changed – Replace the hook meta_field_block_acf_field_true_false_off_text by the hook meta_field_block_true_false_off_text. The new hook can be applied to both ACF and Meta Box fields.
• Fixed – Non UTF-8 characters in button’s text are rendered incorrect

1.3.5

Release Date – 13 February 2025

• Fixed – (MFB Pro) Load alt text for gallery images

1.3.4

Release Date – 27 January 2025

• Improved – (MFB Pro) Allow custom sorting with the nested Query Loop for the relationship field
• Fixed – (MFB Pro) Load all posts stored in the relationship field for the Query Loop
• Updated – Freemius SDK 2.11.0

1.3.3

Release Date – 06 January 2025

• Fixed – (MFB Pro) ACF Relationship field and custom post types
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Add the plugin version to the premium style file
• Updated – Update Freemius SDK 2.10.1

1.3.2

Release Date – 17 November 2024

• Improved – Updated translation text for compatibility with WordPress 6.7

1.3.1

Release Date – 28 October 2024

• Improved – Prevent inner links from being clickable in the editor
• Improved – Add code to check if the post and term exist before displaying them
• Updated – Upgrade to Freemius SDK 2.9.0

1.3.0

Release Date – 05 August 2024

• Added – (MFB Pro) Register custom bindings for heading and paragraph when displaying a text field as a heading or a paragraph block
• Added – (MFB Pro) Allow linking an image field to a custom URL from another field
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Display dynamic value in the editor when displaying a field as a heading, paragraph, button, image, or video block
• Improved – (MFB Pro) Allow displaying the value of URL, and email as button text when displaying them as a button
• Fixed – (MFB Pro) Expanding image is not getting dynamic value
• Refactor – Replaced classnames with clsx
• Refactor – Replace useSetting by useEttings
• Updated – Tested up to 6.5 for block bindings

1.2.14

Release Date – 31 July 2024

• Improved – Escape the style attribute for prefix and suffix

1.2.13

Release Date – 17 July 2024

• Improved – Ignore array and object fields from the list of suggested names in the meta field type
• Improved – MFB Pro: Change the label with mailto prefix to the mail value
• Updated – Update Freemius SDK to 2.7.3

1.2.11

Release Date – 06 June 2024

• Added – Support clientNavigation interactivity
• Added – Allow changing the object type via the new filter meta_field_block_get_object_type
• Improved – MFB Pro: Use useEntityRecord to display suggested names for setting fields

1.2.10

Release Date – 07 May 2024

• Added – Add correct format for ACF textarea and editor field in the editor
• Updated – Use useSettings instead of useSetting since WP 6.5
• Improved – Flush server cache for object type and ACF fields when necessary
• Improved – Add field label to the layout variations of SFB: Group, Flexible content, Repeater
• Improved – MFB Pro: Don’t allow editing field path for repeater items SFB
• Improved – MFB Pro: Flexible content field type

1.2.9

Release Date – 01 May 2024

• Improved – Invalidate the MFB cache when updating a post, a term, a user, or settings
• Updated – Help text in the settings page

1.2.8

Release Date – 22 April 2024

• Updated – Since WP 6.5 we could not get the post ID and post type from the current context when accessing the template editor from a post/page.
• Added – Add the emptyMessage feature to static blocks

1.2.7

Release Date – 16 April 2024

• Added – Support displaying custom fields inside the Woo Product Collection block

1.2.6

Release Date – 22 March 2024

• Added – Add query, and queryId of Query Loop as context parameters
• Updated – PRO: Render nested ACF oEmbed fields

1.2.5

Release Date – 11 March 2024

• Updated – Update inline documentation
• Fixed – When front-end forms are submitted to admin-post.php, nopriv users are redirected to the login page.
• Added – PRO: Display ACF gallery field
• Added – PRO: Display ACF File as a video

1.2.4

Release Date – 22 February 2024

• Added – Add typography and gap settings to prefix and suffix
• Removed – Remove the redundant blockGap support feature
• Improved – Remove _acf_changed from the list of suggested names
• Fixed – Remove the block margin on value, prefix and suffix when the block is used inside a flow-layout block
• Fixed – PRO: Correct the name for some field types for ACF
• Added – PRO: Enable the hideEmpty setting for static blocks
• Improved – PRO: Change the default perPage value for ACF query fields from 100 to 12
• Added – PRO: Add the linkToPost setting to the ACF image field and ACF URL-as-image field

1.2.3

Release Date – 24 January 2024

• Added – New dynamic field type to display private fields, support running shortcodes, and see the changes made by the hook meta_field_block_get_block_content both on the front end and the editor.
• Updated – Change the name of a private hook from ‘_meta_field_block_get_field_value’ to ‘_meta_field_block_get_field_value_other_type’
• Updated – Change the permission for getting custom endpoints from publish_posts to edit_posts

1.2.2

Release Date – 08 January 2024

• Updated – Adjust the configuration for freemius

1.2.1

Release Date – 03 January 2024

• Updated – Support full attributes for SVG and all basic shapes in the allowed HTML tags
• Added – Add the settings page with guides
• Added – Integrate with freemius 2.6.2
• Updated – Add the section tag to the list of HTML tag
• Updated – Ignore footnotes from the suggested values for the meta field name
• Updated – Update Requires at least to 6.3

1.2

Release Date – 11 December 2023

• Added – Allow getting meta fields from terms and users
• Updated – Add new $object_type parameter to two main hooks meta_field_block_get_acf_field and meta_field_block_get_block_content
• Added – Add variations for some common ACF field types
• Updated – Increase the required version of PHP to 7.4
• Updated – Refactor code for upcoming releases
• Updated – Move the prefix and suffix to a separate panel

1.1.7

Release Date – 09 September 2023

• FIX – The block does not show the number 0 if using it as the empty message

1.1.6

Release Date – 13 August 2023

• DEV – Refactor block.json, update to block API version 3 for better WP 6.3 compatibility
• FIX – Rename allowed HTML attributes for SVG

1.1.5

Release Date – 15 July 2023

• DEV – Add a custom hook apply_filters( ‘meta_field_block_kses_allowed_html’, $allowed_html_tags ) for filtering allowed HTML tags in the value.
• DEV – Allow displaying iframe, and SVG tag by default.
• DEV – Force displaying color (text, background, link) attributes for unsupported themes.
• DEV – Refactor code for React best practice.
• DOC – Update readme for the hook meta_field_block_get_acf_field

1.1.4

Release Date – 20 May 2023

• DEV – Change the placeholder text for the block in the site editor.
• DEV – Add a setting to use the ACF field label as the prefix

1.1.3

Release Date – 31 Mar 2023

• DEV – Support choice fields: true/false, select, checkbox, radio, button group
• DEV – Add raw value to the meta_field_block_get_acf_field hook

1.1.2

Release Date – 28 Mar 2023

• DEV – Refactor both JS and PHP code
• DEV – Load ACF field value even if we could not load the field object
• DEV – Separate settings group for WP 6.2

1.1.1

Release Date – 14 Mar 2023

• DEV – Add a hideEmpty setting to hide the whole block if the value is empty
• DEV – Add an emptyMessage setting to show a custom text in case the value is empty
• FIX – The meta field did not show on the archive template

1.1.0

Release Date – 06 Mar 2023

• DEV – Refactor all the source code for more upcoming features
• DEV – Make sure the block works with all return formats for the image field, link field
• DEV – Get all custom rest fields to show on the suggested help
• DEV – Allow changing the tagName from the block toolbar
• DEV – Improve performance
• DEV – Add more core support features
• DEV – Add more meaningful messages for some use cases
• FIX – Allow displaying links without text

1.0.10

Release Date – 02 Feb 2023

• DEV – Support multiple values for ACF User type

1.0.9

Release Date – 15 Sep 2022

• FIX – Change the textdomain to the plugin slug

1.0.8

Release Date – 10 Sep 2022

• FIX – Wrong handle for wp_set_script_translations. Thanks to Loïc Antignac (@webaxones)

1.0.7

Release Date – 07 Sep 2022

• FIX – Add a null check for meta fields value before accessing it’s property

1.0.6

Release Date – 25 Jun 2022

• DEV – Add an option to show the block’s outline on the Editor

1.0.5

Release Date – 21 Jun 2022

• DEV – Display the placeholder text on the template context

1.0.4

Release Date – 02 May 2022

• DEV – Support displaying some field types for ACF such as image, link, page_link, post_object, relationship, taxonomy

1.0.3

Release Date – 30 April 2022

• DEV – Add supports for borders, and full typography options

1.0.2

Release Date – 28 April 2022

• DEV – Add the title to block registration in JS
• REFACTOR source code

1.0.1

Release Date – 23 March 2022

• FIX – The block does not work in the site editor.

1.0.0

Release Date – 22 February 2022