Chris Mucheke

Hey @juliana9

There’s no drag-and-drop reorder UI in ACF itself. In the classic editor you could reorder metaboxes by dragging them on screen, but that doesn’t carry over reliably in the block editor, so menu_order is the way to go.

You can set it directly inside each field group’s settings (Edit Field Group → scroll down to Group Settings → Menu Order). Lower numbers appear first. If two groups have the same value, they’ll fall back to alphabetical.

If you’re managing field groups in PHP or via ACF’s local JSON, you can set it there too:

// In a PHP-registered field group:
acf_add_local_field_group( [
    'key'        => 'group_123',
    'title'      => 'My Field Group',
    'menu_order' => 10,
    // ...rest of your config
] );

Or in your group_xyz.json file:

{
  "key": "group_123",
  "title": "My Field Group",
  "menu_order": 10
}

Hope that helps!