Herd Editor

Herd Editor A third editing mode for WordPress, alongside Classic and the Block Editor, built for sites whose pages are ACF blocks. It renders the same Gutenberg document either way — the block list is a set of accordion rows, and opening one mounts that block's real ACF form. Requires ACF Pro 6.0 or newer. Without it the plugin declines to offer itself and both native editors are unaffected. Using it with your theme Nothing. Install it, and every ACF block your theme registers is editable. Herd reads what your blocks already declare — title, icon, category, keywords, supports.anchor — and asks ACF for each block's form rather than knowing anything about your fields. It never reads acf-json and never names a field key, so a field group you change is a form Herd renders differently the next time it is opened. The inserter groups blocks by the category each block registers, resolved through WordPress's own block category list. A block lands in the same group here that it does in Gutenberg's inserter, for the same reason. If every block in your theme declares one category — which is common, since a category is usually just a vendor namespace — you get one list and no heading, an