Non-dev “pre-sales” questions

Hi there!

We’ve tried to create a fair comparison between Carbon Fields, ACF, and CMB2 here: https://carbonfields.net/about/

I know ACF has it’s own way of saving custom fields in DB, which seems to demand more queries then, for instance, CMB2.

Carbon Fields saves single row in the database per custom field value. So, we’re closer to CMB2 way of doing things than ACF.

How does CF relates to the forthcoming WordPress Fields API?

We’ll probably see how we can integrate Carbon Fields with the WordPress Fields API once it’s merged in the core. At this point we’re standing by until there is a release candidate that we can play with.

Thank you for your fast reply and for sharing this library. It’s looking good!

Can we also get some details to fill in a column for Carbon Fields here? https://comparew.org/cck/

Just copy the spreadsheet, add you column, and send me access to [ redacted ]

BTW @sc0ttkclark, Easy Content Types, also on that comparison, is not Pippin’s anymore. It’s a Themeisle project now.

Unfortunately I don’t have enough time to keep every single plugin listed there up-to-date myself, so feel free to leave comments on any cell that needs an update. Thanks in advance ??

I’ll get to them usually within a day or so and get the spreadsheet updated.

I did some inquire about it with Themeisle but didn’t get clear info if everything is the same as it was when Pippin was leading the development. Anyway, I’ll leave the comment there. Thank you for this awesome reference.

@sc0ttkclark I’ve forked and updated spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fMl-6fy14CPK40j6hTPqgpMycpiTTl3ifupEBgewlb4/edit#gid=3

Please let me know if you need additional information.

Added your column, thanks for the info!

Thanks!