ACF Page Text Manager — Structured WordPress Content Editing

Portfolio project · WordPress/PHP · ACF · Yoast SEO · Rank Math · CSV/XLSX workflows

ACF Page Text Manager gives editors and developers one WordPress admin screen for reviewing and updating structured page/post content, ACF values, SEO metadata and image text. It also supports validated CSV/XLSX import and export for controlled bulk content work.

Built by: Andrew Baeten · Portfolio

What problem it solves

Structured WordPress content can be spread across core fields, ACF, SEO plugins and media metadata. Editing those values one screen at a time is slow and makes bulk review difficult. This plugin brings the supported text fields into one focused workflow while keeping imports scoped, validated and predictable.

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Area	What it demonstrates
WordPress	Custom admin tooling and content-management workflows
ACF	Dynamic field discovery and editing for supported text-oriented fields
SEO	Yoast SEO and Rank Math metadata management
Media	Image alt, caption, description and guarded filename workflows
Bulk content	CSV/XLSX export and validated import
Quality	Compatibility checks, scoped imports, temporary-file cleanup and release hardening

Version: 2.5.25
License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Requires: WordPress 6.5+, PHP 8.0+, Advanced Custom Fields (Free or Pro)
Tested up to: WordPress 7.0

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What it does

ACF Page Text Manager adds a focused Tekstbeheer menu to the WordPress admin where you can:

• Browse and inline-edit text-oriented fields for any selected page or post — ACF fields, Yoast SEO metadata, Rank Math metadata, image alt/caption/description, and the post's own title and excerpt.
• Export the values for one or many items to CSV or XLSX.
• Import a CSV/XLSX/ZIP back in with validation and progress feedback before writes are processed.

It is not a general-purpose migration suite. The scope is deliberately limited to text content for pages and posts, which keeps the workflow predictable and the import safe.

Installation

1. Upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/ (or upload the .zip via Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin).
2. Activate the plugin in Plugins.
3. Make sure Advanced Custom Fields (Free or Pro) is installed and active.
4. Open Tekstbeheer in the WordPress admin sidebar.

Usage

The admin screen is organised in three tabs:

• Veldinhoud — pick a page or post and inline-edit its fields.
• Export — select one or more items and download CSV or XLSX.
• Import — upload a CSV/XLSX/ZIP file and run the validated import.

A few practical notes:

• Inline edits autosave when you click outside the field; press Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on macOS) inside a field to save explicitly, or Esc to cancel.
• Media filename changes are an opt-in path and require explicit "Save" — they are never applied implicitly.
• Imports are validated/prepared before processing, then the confirmed import runs through the progress modal.

Compatibility

Component	Minimum	Tested
WordPress	6.5	7.0
PHP	8.0	8.3
ACF	6.7.2	6.7.x

The plugin checks for ACF at runtime and shows a clear notice if it is missing or outdated. ACF Pro and ACF Free are both supported.

Privacy

The plugin stores its own settings in wp_options (wa_acf_ptm_settings, wa_acf_ptm_media_rename_log) and uses short-lived transients for in-progress import plans. Uploaded files are processed in WordPress' temp uploads directory and removed at the end of the import.

The plugin does not phone home, does not load remote assets, and does not track usage.

Uninstall

Removing the plugin via WordPress' "Delete" action runs uninstall.php, which removes the plugin's options and transients for the active site (and, on multisite, for every subsite). It does not touch ACF data or any page/post content.

WP-CLI media rename safety

Physical media filename changes during CLI imports are disabled by default. Add --confirm-media-rename only after reviewing the dry-run output and confirming the import is intended to rename media files.

Media filename rename safety

Physical media filename renames are disabled by default at code level through wa_acf_ptm_allow_media_file_rename. Enable this only in project code after staging validation, for example:

add_filter( 'wa_acf_ptm_allow_media_file_rename', '__return_true' );

WP-CLI imports also require --confirm-media-rename before physical filename renames are allowed.

Changelog

2.5.25

• Hardening: stricter import caps for ZIP and separate upload files.
• Hardening: safer WP-CLI XLSX temp cleanup.
• Release: bumped plugin metadata for the hardened build.
• Cleanup: removed an unused export picker data attribute.
• Cleanup: added shipped documentation files to the upgrade cleanup manifest.

2.5.21

• Cleanup: removed dead auto-submit picker handling from the target selector.
• Cleanup: removed duplicate export no-selection handling so only the checklist controller owns that validation.

2.5.20

• Cleanup: removed unused generic tab-jump selector handling.
• Cleanup: removed unused picker open-link support and dead data-edit-url attributes.
• Cleanup: removed unused multi-select picker branches and a dead clear-visible action branch.

2.5.19

• Cleanup: removed unused import preview-row payload generation after the separate preview UI was removed.
• Cleanup: removed private import preview text helpers that no longer had runtime callers.
• Docs: aligned README usage text with the current three-tab UI and single-action import flow.

See readme.txt for the full version history.

About the developer

I am Andrew Baeten, a Senior WordPress Developer & Web Designer with 10+ years of experience across 90+ WordPress projects. I currently manage and regularly update 120+ websites and webshops and work across WordPress, WooCommerce, Elementor, ACF, UX, performance, technical SEO and automated QA.

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License

This plugin is released under the GNU General Public License v2.0 or later. See LICENSE for the full text.

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