Advanced Custom Fields Plugins

Advanced Custom Fields

  • Could be compared to JetEngine, Extras For Elementor, and WP User Frontend Pro
  • More expensive than JetEngine
  • Can’t create custom post types, so it must be used with CPT UI or custom code.
  • Needs an additional plugin to handle admin columns
  • Very powerful, but more labor intensive setting things up
  • Flexible for coders
  • Dean recommends this plugin
  • Most ACF training is handling it from a coding point of view
  • Does one job: creates metafields. Beyond that, you have to use third-party plugins or custom code
  • A lot of other plugins expand on this
  • Makes relationships very easy and straightforward
  • A more mature and developed product than JetEngine
  • Tons of third-party tools that work with this

ACF

  • Supports more meta fields than JetEngine, but the gap is closing quickly.
  • Free version: Limited styling options, limited WooCommerce integration, limited payment gateways
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ACF Pro

Tutorials

Advanced Post Queries

Users

  • Author is Current User. The logged in user will only see posts that he/she is the author of.
  • Author is Current Author. Show other posts by the current author.
  • Custom Field is Current User. The logged in user will only see posts where the custom field equals his/her ID, email, or username, based on whichever key you choose.

Dates

  • Pre Expired Posts. Choose a custom date field ( in “Ymd” format ) that returns an expiration date. Only non-expired posts will show.
  • Expired Posts. Choose a custom date field ( in “Ymd” format ) that returns an expiration date. Only expired posts will show.
  • Start and end dates. Choose 2 custom date fields ( in “Ymd” format ) that return a start and end date. Only posts within between these 2 dates will show.
  • Query by the time.

Related Posts

  • Dynamic Related Posts. Show posts that are dynamically hand picked by a relationship or post object field.
  • Dynamic Related Terms. Show posts that are dynamically hand picked by a taxonomy field.
  • Custom Field is Current Post ID. Show posts that contain a custom field that is equal to the current post.

Similar Field Values

  • Custom Field is Value. Show posts that contain a custom field with a similar value.
  • Custom Field Contains Value. Show posts that contain a custom field with one of many values.

Order By

  • Dynamic OrderBy. Dynamically order the posts by a custom field.
  • OrderBy Last Modified. Order posts by last modified date.

ACF Medium Editor

  • Provides a customizable WYSIWYG editor field
  • Most be used with ACF Pro or the ACF repeater field
  • Giving me problems with Elementor. I can sometimes merge the field, but often won’t

ACF Extended

  • Bidirectional fields

ACF Frontend Form for Elementor

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ACF Frontend [Forms] Pro

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