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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Crocoblock JetEngine: jo.my/croc
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PODS: pods.io/
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ACPT: acpt.io/
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[@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.👍

[@a0n0g]

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

[@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

[@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

[@alanjacobs7302]

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.

[@nick90000]

JetEngine's support is also unrivalled

[@alejandrobetancourtfraire9571]

@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.

[@peak196]

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.

[@susangemayel-tapper3794]

Thanks Paul for sharing.

[@derekshort]

Great video, Paul!

[@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.

[@webtappers7863]

Thanks for sharing.

[@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.

[@davidhenriet1432]

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

[@febryanvaldo]

ACPT is the way...

[@ib4112]

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?

[@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.

[@hq021]

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)?

[@emailjough]

Toolset + Gutenberg was a nightmare. Never again. Even the Toolset support team admitted to me that the integration was a mess and they were only supporting Gutenberg because they had to.

[@bluetheredpanda]

😮 wow that's pretty shocking indeed. Especially since it's like the main thing that's being put forward and marketed on their website! I mean, if you just look at the hero section and most of the homepage, you wouldn't even know it's a custom fields/post type solution, and would probably assume it's just a way to create new blocks to use in Gutenberg or something like that.

[@1anchit]

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

[@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...

[@WPTuts]

It's done in FCP with a plugin called 3D Camera Rig. motionarray.com/final-cut-pro-templates/3d-camera-rig-1425769/

[@Nadworks-cb]

@@WPTuts Thanks. Will check it out.

[@joecater894]

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

[@lilacDaisy111]

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

[@brokeartisan]

Carbon Fields, more advance but probably the best solution overall.

[@stphnmwlkr]

The best part of the subset of tools is the competition. Pushing each plugin to add more capabilities. I have tried all but Cube and tend to fall back to ACF because of how widely it is supported and how few of the "other" features offered from the alternatives I use. The fact that ACF Pro is bundled into some popular themes and Advanced Themer for Bricks makes the cost of entry negligible.

[@stphnmwlkr]

@@christosmontariou3105 Ye., it is still included. In the settings under Miscellaneous you can show or hide ACF (in casyou don't need it).

[@Just_Jimi]

Do yourself a favor, just get ACPT it does everything the others do but for a bargain of a price and they seem to be working hard on it. I have a LTD and only use ACF because I also have that from another plug in i use so no sense installing 2 CPT programs

[@nadmak9093]

Just curious as to why Cwicly was not covered in your video as an option?

[@WPTuts]

Cwicly isn’t an alternative to ACF. It’s a page builder/site designer with ACF Pro included.

[@stefanjohansson2373]

ACF Pro is included in the Avada theme. Avadas conditional logic combined with dynamic data features is free and included in the theme. This is a good option worth mentioning, but they maybe don’t pay you for that. 😂 A lot of plugins are expensive and then you also often need to add their extensions on top of that, resulting into a rather high total cost.

[@WPTuts]

And these plugins pay me for it? 🤷🏼‍♂️🤦‍♂️ The question is, why would I include Avada in this list when it’s just bundling ACF - the whole point of this video? It’s not an alternative to ACF, it’s a theme.