Best custom field plugins for WordPress
The most popular custom field plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Smart Custom Fields leads with 50K+ active installs, ahead of Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator (10K+) and Meta Field Block (10K+). All 78 plugins tagged “custom field” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 custom field plugins
- 1.Smart Custom Fields
The most installed custom field plugin, with 50K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 21 reviews, updated 3 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.
Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 97 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 3.Meta Field Block
10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 57 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 4.VK Dynamic If Block
4K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 5 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.
Advanced Custom Fields3K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 5 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 6.Edit Custom Fields
2K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 16 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 7.Advanced Custom Fields
1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 8.
Easy Post Types and Fields1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.Advanced Custom Fields
900+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 10.
ACF700+ active installs. Rated 3.3 from 6 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
All 78 plugins tagged “custom field”
Smart Custom Fields
Up in the last 7 days:3#695by Takashi Kitajima3 months ago
Smart Custom Fields is a simple plugin for managing custom fields.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.9(21)
- Downloads
- 335/day

Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,601by madalin.ungureanu6 days ago
A must have tool for creating custom fields, custom post types and taxonomies, fast and without any programming knowledge.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(97)
- Downloads
- 106/day
Meta Field Block
Up in the last 7 days:9#1,949by Phi Phan19 days ago
A single block to display custom fields in the Block Editor. It supports ACF, MetaBox, WooCommerce, meta, rest field, shortcode and more.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(57)
- Downloads
- 156/day
VK Dynamic If Block
Up in the last 7 days:4#3,490by Vektor,Inc.5 months ago
VK Dynamic If Block displays its Inner Blocks based on specified conditions, such as whether the current page is the front page or a single post, the …
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:3#3,663by Mujahid Ishtiaq1 month ago
A Typography Add-on for the Advanced Custom Fields Plugin.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 35/day
Edit Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,516by Jay3 years ago
A simple interface to edit or delete Custom Fields.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(16)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:6#5,732by Brian Zoetewey14 years ago
Adds a Taxonomy Field to Advanced Custom Fields. Select one or more taxonomy terms and assign them to the post.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Easy Post Types and Fields
Down in the last 7 days:12#6,654by Barn2 Plugins2 months ago
Easy Post Types and Fields makes it quick and easy to add custom post types, custom fields, and taxonomies to your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 2.7(3)
- Downloads
- 16/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:17#7,168by julienbechade9 years ago
Adds a Location field to Advanced Custom Fields. This field allows you to find addresses and coordinates of a desired location.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 8/day

ACF
Down in the last 7 days:35#7,786by CodeFish11 years ago
ACF field. Saves map center, zoom level. Disables map zooming on scroll. Shows location coordinates. Bonus for programmers.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 3.3(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
SuperCPT
Down in the last 7 days:20#8,337by Matthew Boynes13 years ago
Insanely easy and attractive custom post types, custom post meta, and custom taxonomies
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Redirect by Custom Field
Down in the last 7 days:4#8,527by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)13 years ago
Changes the URLs pointing to pages and posts which have a "redirect" custom field, using that entry as the URL instead.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.8(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Up in the last 7 days:45#9,452by Aleš Loziak12 years ago
Adds a NextGEN Gallery Field to Advanced Custom Fields. Select one or more NextGEN Galleries and assign them to the post.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 2.1(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

ACF YouTube Picker
Down in the last 7 days:29#9,720by airesvsg10 years ago
Search and select videos on YouTube without leaving the page.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

My Upload Images
Down in the last 7 days:179#9,854by Mizuho Ogino9 years ago
Create metabox with media uploader. It allows to upload and sort images in any post_type.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Date & Time Picker for Advanced Custom Fields
Up in the last 7 days:42#10,850by Bartosz Romanowski10 years ago
Date & Time Picker field for Advanced Custom Fields 4 and 5.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Post Meta Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:20#11,949by Yong3 years ago
View all post meta that saved in a post, page or custom post type in easily readable format. No settings needed just plug and play.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Price Field
Down in the last 7 days:123#12,196by impleCode18 days ago
Adds support for price field to posts, pages or other selected post types. Fully integrated with Catalog X.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

SuevaFree Essential Kit
Down in the last 7 days:20#12,565by alexvtn2 months ago
Install SuevaFree Essential Kit plugin to enable all features of SuevaFree 3.0 WordPress theme, like 7 custom widgets, three different custom post typ …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Custom Field Widget
Down in the last 7 days:8#12,646by scottwallick14 years ago
The Custom Field Widget displays values of custom field keys, allowing post- and page-specific meta sidebar content with limitless applications.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Dynamic Field for Elementor Forms
Up in the last 7 days:57#13,374by add-ons.org1 month ago
Pull data from URL Query Parameter, posts, users, terms, Database, CSV, or custom sources and display them directly inside your forms.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:34#13,433by Ivan Paulin10 years ago
Custom field addon for Advanced Custom Fields plugin which provides a list of used WPML languages on website.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Field Widget
Up in the last 7 days:40#13,752by athenaofdelphi11 years ago
The Advanced Custom Field Widget is an extension of the Custom Field Widget by Scott Wallick, and displays values of custom field keys.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Subtitle
Down in the last 7 days:74#14,420by ShinichiN13 years ago
Displays subtitle text field after the title in post, page and other post type edit page.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Dashi
Down in the last 7 days:395#14,759by jidaikobo13 days ago
Useful classes for creating a custom post type. Creates Page Parts custom post type. Designed for theme developers.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Custom Fields Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:73#14,763by Amir Helzer15 years ago
Lets you insert custom fields in the visual editor without coding in PHP.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Fields Viewer
Down in the last 7 days:82#16,323by Joe Fusco9 years ago
View Advanced Custom Fields names & data on the front end of your theme while developing.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACF Media Credit
Up in the last 7 days:25#16,889by donaldG28 years ago
Adds an option to create as many media credit fields as needed for an image.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Get User Custom Field Values
Up in the last 7 days:8#17,471by Scott Reilly5 years ago
Use widgets, shortcodes, and/or template tags to easily retrieve and display custom field values for users.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Meta Manager
Down in the last 7 days:454#18,393by Andrew Norcross10 years ago
A simple utility plugin for changing or deleting post or user meta (custom fields) keys in bulk.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACF Pro JSON Sync
Down in the last 7 days:78#19,827by sgengler12 years ago
Sync Advanced Custom Fields fields stored in json files into the database. Ideal for using ACF in multiple environments or in a team setting.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Publish kintone data
Up in the last 7 days:461#20,042by Takashi Hosoya16 days ago
The data of kintone can be reflected on WordPress.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Fields Framework
Up in the last 7 days:162#20,379by Naif Amoodi6 years ago
A framework which can be used by developers to add fields to various areas of the administration panel either manually or using the Visual Builder.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.5(10)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Current Post Shortcode
#20,663by Md Forid Uddin9 months ago
The Current Post Shortcode plugin allows you to display the current post's title and metadata using simple shortcodes.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Fields
#21,223by Brian Zoetewey14 years ago
Adds an Address Field to Advanced Custom Fields. Pick and choose the components and layout of the address.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ACF
#21,435by joharyjoox10 years ago
This plugin is an add-on for Advanced Custom Fields. It allows you to choose URL between posts link and external link
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Headway Views
Down in the last 7 days:48#21,778by Amir Helzer13 years ago
Create your unique content blocks right from within the Headway Grid editor using the Views plugin.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Magic Meta Box
Down in the last 7 days:140#22,264by Abdelrhman elgreatly5 years ago
Magic Meta Box helps you to create easily custom meta boxes fields in post, page and custom post type. You can create repeated group fields and tabs.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:625#22,351by Brian S. Reed10 years ago
The Tag It field for ACF using ACF 5's built-in Select2 library.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:26#23,151by bluoma12 years ago
Enables toggling of ACF Flexible Content Fields for easier sorting and management.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Field Snippet
Down in the last 7 days:46#23,737by 水野史土12 years ago
Creates Snippets like "echo get_post_meta($post->ID,'FIELD NAME',true);
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Custom Job Fields for WP Job Manager
Up in the last 7 days:71#24,002by Eddie Chan5 years ago
Custom Job Fields for WP Job Manager is flexible and easy to add your custom fields for WP Job Manager.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP API Customizer
Up in the last 7 days:389#25,635by Kite11 years ago
Make post meta data (custom field values) available for JSON REST API (WP API) when unauthenticated.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Dynamic Input For WPForms
Down in the last 7 days:526#26,431by wpdebuglog2 years ago
Easily add dynamic text, dynamic hidden fields, and advanced customization to WPForms.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

DN Checkout Extra Fields
Down in the last 7 days:896#27,128by digireturn2 years ago
Customize extra checkout fields for WooCommerce: partita iva, codice fiscale, sdi, pec, note aggiuntive, etc.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Menu Item Extended URL
Up in the last 7 days:165#30,952by Pavel Revenkov9 years ago
Allows to add additional parameters and/or fragment identifier (hashtag) to the menu item URL.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WebKew Image Dominant Color Generator
Down in the last 7 days:918#34,526by Peshmerge Morad4 days ago
A WordPress plugin that automatically generates a dominant color & a colors palette (6 colors) for any uploaded image to the WordPress media library.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Subtitle
Up in the last 7 days:6,489#35,206by ShinichiN12 years ago
Adds another text editor below the editor in your post/page/custom-post-type edit page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PostType-Widget
#35,363by dimonuch7 years ago
It displays the date in the format of the last "N" posts with a given PostType (options set in the widget settings)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom fields in RSS
Up in the last 7 days:1,135#39,110by گناهکار16 years ago
This plugin adds post custom fields in rss feed.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day