ForjaCustom fields, defined in code

A complete example ​

add_action( 'forja/register_boxes', function () {
	forja_register_box( 'home', array(
		'title'           => 'Home content',
		'object_subtypes' => array( 'page' ),
		'fields'          => array(
			array( 'type' => 'text',  'name' => 'headline',   'label' => 'Headline' ),
			array( 'type' => 'image', 'name' => 'background', 'label' => 'Background image' ),
		),
	) );
} );

And in your template:

forja_the_field( 'headline' );

$background = forja_get_field( 'background' );

What you get ​

• Not a plugin. It installs into your theme with Composer. Fields and the code using them are versioned together, and nobody can deactivate them from the dashboard.
• Fields live in your repository. Declared in PHP, CMB2 style. No panel to create them, no exporting and importing JSON between environments.
• The interface your editors already know. The markup and CSS of ACF/Secure Custom Fields are ported, not reinvented. A tool compares both, field by field.
• Compatible with ACF's data. Repeaters as field_0_subfield, dates as Ymd. An existing site reads without migrating anything.

The 35 field types ​

Grouped by what they're for. The full reference — every option, what each one stores and what it returns — lives in The fields.

Four worth calling out:

• repeater and flexible_content store in ACF's format — banner_0_title, one key per sub-field and row — so an existing site reads without migrating.
• The relational ones search over AJAX instead of dumping the whole catalogue into the HTML. A site with thousands of posts stays usable.
• icon_picker searches Iconify's 200,000+ icons live. No catalogue is bundled, and the front end gets an inline SVG with no JavaScript.
• clone isn't a type in the registry: it's resolved when the group is declared, so nothing downstream ever sees it. It pulls a reusable field set into as many groups as you like, with optional prefixes and per-field overrides.

Every type works inside a repeater row, including wysiwyg and the relational ones.