The Answer to ACF Pro vs. Free Plugins

I’m a huge fan of and have a developer license for ACF Pro.

That said, I needed a solution that I could include with free plugins that offered some of the cool features of Pro like repeating fields (aka Complex fields) and easy options pages.

There are a lot of frameworks out there, but I chose this one because it is one of the few that supports repeater/complex field groups well and is easily extensible. Good stuff!

FYI, if you want to pull it into the vendor folder via Composer, this worked for me:

"require": {
  "mnsami/composer-custom-directory-installer": "*",
  "htmlburger/carbon-fields": "*",
},
"extra":{
  "installer-paths":{
    "./vendor/{$name}": ["htmlburger/carbon-fields"]
  }
}