My TOP 6 WordPress Advanced Custom Fields Alternatives

If you're looking for some awesome Advanced Custom Fields Alternatives, here are my Top 6 choices to help ease the decision-making!

While ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) is one of the best WordPress plugins for expanding the platform, it's certainly not the only choice and here are my preferred ACF Alternatives.

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[RichardWadeUK]

Great overview mate (as always). I have most of these tools, but I think (so far) JetEngine has proven to be the game changer when it comes to dynamic website development

[ang]

Coming from ACF, acpt now offer me same features + integrates custom pot types, all in one place. Great plugin with great support

[ibelongtojesus]

As ever, exceptionally briliant. I don't know how or when you find the time to do great informative, educational and professional videos on all things related to WordPress, but I am so grateful you do. I am really pleased that you mentioned ACPT because the developer Mauro Cassani is a tremendous work horse. Thanks Paul for another great video.👍

[alejandrobetancourtfraire]

@WPTuts When can you delight us with an ACPT v2 tutorial? How would you make a property site or professional directory? Thank you very much for everything you help us Paul.

[alanjacobs]

No need to look past ACPT. Now my go to. Excellent tool and v2 coming later this year. Developer is fantastic and responsive. Love it.

[AvaneeshKumarSingh]

Shout out to ACPT and Mauro Cassani. He is very responsive and actively developing the product to take it to a place when it would take the king status from ACF.
Best wishes

[pierres_blog]

I deleted Toolset because I would sometimes hit a bug that made me feel unsafe. It's one thing if a plugin is helping with some formatting, but it's another if it's driving your data.

I appreciate this round up of the main candidates - super helpful knowledge to add to my notes.

[pierres_blog]

One test that I'd like to see for block sets, and maybe for plugins in general, is what happens to a site if you need to delete the plugin. How much continues to work and what breaks?

I realise that in many cases the plugin has been used to generate normal code in a post, and that might continue to work. But what else?
Sometimes a website is the core of a person's career. So we need to know what it depends on.

[peak]

Thanks for the overview. Meta Box, the commercial version, is a good fit for me. Didn't find it too complex but that was after working with Toolset for a while.

[nick]

JetEngine's support is also unrivalled

[ib]

If you want to go for paid option which option will you go for ?, myself as a starter i would go for Crocoblock as i can get much more for additional cost. What do you recommend if you have to choose from ACF or Jet Engine Paid option.

I tried pod but i am stuck as i am not able to get Repeater fields in Tabular format for multiple repeater fields for Tournament Table such as MatchDate, TeamA, TeamB, Score, Venue etc. I want these to be one row when user will enter data for these fields but this doesnt seem to be possible with Pod, with ACF it may be possible as we can enter field with when creating these fields i am not sure about Jet Engine.. This is the delima i am stuck with on one end we have lot more option with crocoblock and with ACF we may have flexibility. So which one you recomment?

[buildyear]

Are these also all equally useful for making job boards?

[abrotherinchrist]

I use Toolset, but ran into a BIG problem with the REST API. In order to update related data you need to write a bunch of custom code to register the fields and handle the updating of the relationships. I feel like this should be a core feature, but it is not. Do you know of anything that would handle this out of the box?

[davidhenriet]

Very good review, lazyblocks can be added to the list I think

[ValentinKossenko]

Does ACPT work just as well as ACF Pro when it comes to importing with WP All Import Pro? When it comes to Metabox for example, which is what I use at the moment, importing gallery images is still not ideal and looks a lot more simple with ACF Pro and their native integration.

[anchit]

If you have ACPT pro, do you need to get jet engine?

[hq]

Is it possible to use ACF to add Affiliate Program on Custom Dashboard? And is it possible to introduce Customer Levels (Levels increase with purchase)?

[Nadworks-cb]

Hey Paul, how do you do your cool animated, depth of field screenshot animations? I bet you've got a cool tool for that...

[joecater]

my free version of ACF wont let me save any changes..

[LilacDaisy]

Pods Beaver Themer Add-On was last updated TWO years ago. What a shame!