About this plugin
Advanced Custom Fields lets you move a field to another field group, but moving removes it from where it was. There is no built-in way to copy a field into another group and keep the original.
Ranabikram Field Copy for ACF adds exactly that. A new Copy link appears in each field’s action row, right next to Edit, Duplicate, Move and Delete. Click it, pick a destination field group, and the field is copied into that group while the original stays put.
The copy reuses ACF’s own duplication routine, so it:
- Generates a fresh, unique field key (no clashes with the original)
- Recursively copies sub-fields, so Repeater, Group and Flexible Content fields come along intact
- Gives the copy a unique field name within the destination group, so it will not overwrite an existing field’s values
- Works with both Advanced Custom Fields (free) and ACF PRO
This plugin runs entirely inside your WordPress admin and makes no external requests — no data leaves your site.
Note: like ACF’s own Move and Duplicate, this copies the field definition, not the saved post values.