ACF Pro or Jet Engine - Which One Is Right For You?

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Another amazing video, Paul! I'm glad you touched on using JetEngine in conjunction with ACF Pro. I have been doing this and have had no problems. However, I'm currently working on a project and using the JetEngine Profile Builder to manage CPTs from the front-end. I've noticed that I can use ACF Pro to show a selection for taxonomy, but I haven't been able to do this in JetEngine. Also, when you select a taxonomy from the selection box in ACF Pro it also sets the taxonomy meta which is really nice.

I do not have SQL knowledge and relationships are crucial for learning ACF. Please can you make a relationships centered video ?

Just wanted to let you know that you are awesome for replying to all these comments!

Did you see me Google this question? LOL. Thanx

To me I personally prefer ACF

Paul, I love how your doggie even gets a chance to voice an opinion!
I really need to dedicate a part of my work week (like at least a half-day) towards learning new techniques. Three cheers to you for taking the time to teach these technologies!

Great video. You just help me make up my mind about my direction with ACF and Jetengine. Thank you

Great video addressing an important question. I’ve used both ACF and JetEngine, even together. I think for most projects, JetEngine would rule the world, if Crocoblock team learned how to write proper documentation. They tend to answer the question “how” (to use the feature), without addressing the “why” (you want to use this feature) and the “what” (it does). They say a few things about each tree, without helping me with the big picture of navigating the forrest. That leaves a lot of the potential (and sales) of an otherwise nicely synced toolbox on the table.

I keep looking at Jet Engine as I like the way it's styled. But for most sites I can make what I need with ACF for free. Maybe if they do an offer sometime on App Sumo I may pick it up.

I use both, and up till now it is quite a powerful combination.

Show us the dog!! :)

Hi, Paul! It's me, Shelley. I SECOND the pinned posters comment,! You can't understand how priceless these teachings are to us! So many of us would be SO LOST without you! And your such a great teacher. You ARE THE MAN! That said, THANK YOU for putting this up for me SO QUICKLY! Like I told you, I've been watching the tuts you already have up all over again, and I am FINALLY getting my head around it! I still need to watch ALL your DASHBOARD tuts over, so I can get a better handle on my options for that. However, I have a multi site set up, so I am wanting to have a custom dashboard for my users, based on user roles. For instance, authors would have one dashboard, and moderators would have a different dashboard. That's a lousy example, but I'm sure you get the picture. Right now, I have NO IDEA how to do that AND make sure they land on the right dashboard when they log in. I know there HAS to be several people using multi site, especially the BIG, T.V. networks and all, yet there is SO VERY LITTLE documentation or instruction out there tailored to multi site users. The one site that was DEDICATED and had SOME TRULY AWESOME plugins for just that, has now changed to just hosting and RETIRED all the plugins!!! So, anyway, back to the dashboard topic. I'd really like to do something just a little bit different on mine, and honestly, I wouldn't look to anyone else to teach me how to pull it off. Specifically, instead of the standard dashboard widgets, I would like to have a tabbed interface on the dashboard that executes each option inside of it when clicked. For example, say one tab says, "Add New Post", when clicked, I would like the post form to open right inside that tab, instead of a different page on the dashboard. Also, it's crucial for my users to have a tab called, "My Posts". However, when they click on that, I don't want their posts to be in the standard list form. Rather, I would like them to appear just as they would on the standard archive page, with the thumbnail and excerpt showing along with EDIT in the right hand corner. I know that this might be a lot to ask, but I hope it's not too tall of an order. At the very least, it's something VERY DIFFERENT. Therefore, I think an in depth JE dashboard tutorial such as this, is something other users might really enjoy and benefit from. Again, thank you SO MUCH for ALL the wonderful tutorials you put out for us! We appreciate you VERY MUCH! I hope you will consider doing this tutorial, cuz I am SO looking forward to seeing it! Thank You, Sir!

Hie Paul, is it possible that you would make a booking tutorial with JetBooking plugin... that would be very helpful with the Knowledge you are sharing here

Another great video Paul - really appreciate the professionalism you display in your teaching. Is there anything that either of these plugins can do that can't be done in Toolset?

Thank you so much Paul! As you said, I still may not know whats best for me but at least I know where to start diggning. Thanks!

Thank you you for putting your hard work and well explained videos. You are always one step forward. JetEngine and ACF a movie about love & hate. I'm using JetEngine and I hope they improve it. I haven't used ACF just because I had to use third parties plugins to have custom post types and others. Thank you and keep it up with your videos!

THANK U

Thanks for the thorough and well articulated tutorials which are helping me a lot with my new endeavor. I just used your affiliate link to purchase elementor pro. I really enjoy your tutorials especially the long ones with real world example. I'm working on creating an LMS and Travel themes.

I would go for AFC Pro, Jet Engine is good but it make my site SOOOOOO slow, loading time is over 3 minuets with Jet and with AFC it is only 34 sec. So 5 stars for AFC Pro.

Hey Paul! What's the name of that song in the background? Sounds cool hehe

Thank you so much Paul, your advice is truly appreciated

Hum i was a fan of ACF but for my needs here are the two combinaison: CPT UI + ACF + ELE CUSTOM SKIN + WP FACET + ELEMENTOR PRO versus JetEngine + JetSmartfilter + ELEMENTOR PRO ... i was really happy to see how easy i could create a cpt, define filter, create my loop/grid/listing, applying filter on a page where the grid has been put ... i'm pretty sure the other 3rd parties combinaision would be better if a had to compare 40k classifieds but for comparing 50 credit cards Crocoblock do the job

Thanks for this video and so many others on using ACF(etc) and Jet, comparing the two. I'm trying Jet (off your affiliate link), and the very first thing I'm wondering about is performance. I haven't heard you make any statements about performance, or comparing ACF versus Jet performance. After getting Jet, I immediately installed the BailRento demo site. The performance is worryingly slow. Would an ACF (and companions) be any faster? You've done your Real Estate demo on both toolsets. Can you say anything about performance, please? Thanks.

Hi Paul, Please do a deep comparison between JetEngine vs Toolset as well.

Besides those two choices, there are also Meta Box and Toolset from which to choose.
Personally, I believe Meta Box is the best of the four because it has more options and is easier to use overall.

HI Paul, do you know if there is a way (directly via jet engine or a plugin) to convert acf fields groups in jetengine fields groups ?

Thank you so much for your very informative videos. I've learned so much from them. I've been trying to find a plugin that will allow me to display multiple custom fields closely together on one line - for example "first-name last-name" or "city, state zipcode". I don't want to have to mess with PHP to do it. Any recommendations?

Wow, now I see why you wanted to avoid this comparison. During the video I flipped back and forth several times on what would be best for my work. I decided on ACF primarily because the number of tutorials you already have on it. However, as things continue evolve - I could imagine JetEngine eventually becoming my choice. Thanks for tackling such a complex topic

More videos like this one!!! Comparisons are so valuable. I absolutely love your videos! Thank you teacher!

Never understand jet engine before... I still prefer ACF rather than jet engine in 2021... Maybe next year try using jet engine

I'm Brazilian and not fluent, but I can understand very well your pronounce. Also, I love your content, keep it up with the good job.

Thanks a lot for this video! I've been using ACF for 7+ years and decided to use Jet Engine for a specific project. I was losing my mind, searching for the PHP functions to get the Jet Engine meta values. I still think Jet Engine is really powerful (listings are amazing), and I just might use them both.

Thanks, very helpfull. Just start with Jet Engine and if I am correct I see another big difference. With Jet Engine it looks like I have to rewrite or copy all my existing posts into Jet Engine while ACF puts the fields in the normal Wordpress posts which already exists.

many thanks Paul. Greeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat VIDEO

Paul, I watched this video again (I mentioned in a prior post that I refer to your videos often) and learned quite a bit watching a second time. It is very helpful to hear this message every now and then to reinforce the concept that there are different tools to get the job completed. I typically try and use the tools that I already "own" to solve the problem but need to remember that there are other tools in the toolshed. Thank you for creating this video.

I love ACF pro, but I'm wanting to play with Jet when I get the funds and IF my current site can't be built with ACF alone.

CPU resources used:
33% ACF Pro + 1,35% CPT UI
14% JetEngine

Thanks for this very detailed comparison. You absolutely helped me in my decision for the future.

Your videos on ACF has been very supportive.
Recently I saw a crocoblock tutorial on how to add booking functionality to your site. Can that be done using ACF with another form builder?

Bom comparativo! Obrigado!

I feel like documentation for Wordpress as a whole has a major gap between using the basic drag and drop features and using the more advanced tools which involve coding and/or scripting. I came to Wordpress about 18 months ago after 20+ years of hand coding with PHP and MySQL. Making the transition has been very frustrating. For one thing, the answer for almost anything you want to do is "there's a plug-in for that", which can drive up costs very quickly. Then when it comes to understanding how to use functions and code, it's difficult to find examples that don't assume you already know where to put this function or use that hook.

When it comes to ACF more specifically, I've been pretty frustrated with the lack of documentation on how to query, as well as the lack of sorting options within Elementor. Being accustomed to getting results through SQL, it's been quite frustrating to find that it's not particularly easy to sort on two (or more) columns, or even to do alpha sorts. But sorting by post date or comment count is super easy - great if that's the kind of data your webstie runs on.

what is the difference in terms of page speed?

can JetEngine create custom fields

Very insightful. Exactly what I was looking for. Subscribed and Thanks.