Best custom fields plugins for WordPress
The most popular custom fields plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) leads with 2M+ active installs, ahead of Meta Box (500K+) and Admin Columns (100K+). All 350 plugins tagged “custom fields” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 custom fields plugins
- 1.Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)
The most installed custom fields plugin, with 2M+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 1,440 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 2.
Meta Box500K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 165 reviews, updated 2 days ago.
- 3.Admin Columns
100K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 1,652 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 4.Secure Custom Fields
100K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 69 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 5.Pods
100K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 418 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
Advanced Custom Fields100K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 132 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 7.
Flexible Checkout Fields for WooCommerce80K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 296 reviews, updated 1 day ago.
- 8.Sydney Toolbox
50K+ active installs. Rated 2.3 from 15 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.
Custom Field Template30K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 24 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
PPOM20K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 283 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
All 350 plugins tagged “custom fields”
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)
#28by WP Engine6 days ago
ACF helps customize WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields. Proudly powering over 2 million sites, WordPress developers love ACF.
- Installs
- 2M+
- Rating
- 4.5(1.4K)
- Downloads
- 18.9K/day

Meta Box
#128by Meta Box2 days ago
Meta Box plugin is a powerful, professional developer toolkit to create custom meta boxes and custom fields for your custom post types in WordPress.
- Installs
- 500K+
- Rating
- 4.8(165)
- Downloads
- 3.7K/day
Admin Columns
#336by Codepress12 days ago
Take control of your WordPress admin list tables. Add, remove, and reorder columns for posts, users, media, and more - no coding needed.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.9(1.7K)
- Downloads
- 2.1K/day
Secure Custom Fields
Up in the last 7 days:13#403by WordPress.org5 days ago
Secure Custom Fields boosts content management with custom fields and options. It deactivates Advanced Custom Fields to prevent duplicate code errors.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(69)
- Downloads
- 4.1K/day
Pods
Down in the last 7 days:1#411by Scott Kingsley Clark2 months ago
Pods is a framework for creating, managing, and deploying customized content types and fields for any project.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(418)
- Downloads
- 513/day

Advanced Custom Fields
#450by Konrad Chmielewski20 days ago
All-in-one enhancement suite that improves WordPress & Advanced Custom Fields.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(132)
- Downloads
- 1.8K/day

Flexible Checkout Fields for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:2#534by wpdesk1 day ago
The best WooCommerce checkout manager. Edit, remove or add checkout fields. Customize WooCommerce checkout with this checkout field customizer.
- Installs
- 80K+
- Rating
- 4.7(296)
- Downloads
- 1K/day
Sydney Toolbox
#742by Syed Balkhi1 month ago
Registers custom post types and custom fields for the Sydney theme
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 2.3(15)
- Downloads
- 312/day

Custom Field Template
Down in the last 7 days:2#966by Hiroaki Miyashita2 months ago
The Custom Field Template plugin extends the functionality of custom fields.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.0(24)
- Downloads
- 190/day

PPOM
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,255by Themeisle3 days ago
Easily add a range of custom fields to WooCommerce products, from text boxes to date selectors, allowing customers to personalize their orders.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.5(283)
- Downloads
- 464/day

Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator
Down in the last 7 days:3#1,600by 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
- 95/day

Flexible Product Fields (WooCommerce Product Addons)
#1,770by wpdesk2 months ago
Add extra product options on your WooCommerce product page. Product addons for all product variations. 20 free product addons.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(106)
- Downloads
- 97/day

JSM Show Post Metadata
Down in the last 7 days:9#2,162by JS Morisset10 days ago
Show post metadata (aka custom fields) in a metabox when editing posts / pages - a great tool for debugging issues with post metadata.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 99/day

ACF Frontend Admin by DynamiApps
Down in the last 7 days:13#2,380by Shabti Kaplan7 days ago
This awesome plugin allows you to easily display frontend forms on your site so your clients can easily edit content by themselves from the frontend.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.5(160)
- Downloads
- 254/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:6#2,411by Faison9 years ago
Add-On plugin for Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) that adds a 'Nav Menu' Field type.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(33)
- Downloads
- 54/day
Custom Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:11#3,168by marapper17 years ago
Manage custom fields using the insert shortcodes or HTML comment in text of post.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Product Input Fields for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:9#3,402by tychesoftwares16 days ago
Add product addons (fields) to WooCommerce products. Personalise with various product options for WooCommerce. Create product forms for WooCommerce.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.0(17)
- Downloads
- 73/day

CubeWP Framework
Down in the last 7 days:33#3,657by Imran Tauqeer3 months ago
CubeWP is an end-to-end dynamic content framework for WordPress to help you shrink time and cut cost of development up to 90%.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(12)
- Downloads
- 44/day

Dynamic Fields Engine
Up in the last 7 days:329#3,772by Roxnor18 days ago
Create custom post types in WordPress with custom fields, taxonomies, and meta fields. AI-powered WordPress metadata plugin.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 228/day

CubeWP Forms
Down in the last 7 days:28#3,790by Imran Tauqeer6 months ago
CubeWP Forms is a 100% free drag-and-drop builder for creating contact forms, lead gen forms, appointment request forms, and newsletter signup forms.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 33/day

Digital Goods for WooCommerce Checkout
Down in the last 7 days:3#3,792by Dotstore10 days ago
This plugin will remove billing address fields for downloadable and virtual products.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.5(42)
- Downloads
- 52/day
Athemes Toolbox
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,859by Syed Balkhi5 years ago
Registers custom post types and custom fields for the aThemes theme
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Custom post types, Custom Fields & more
Down in the last 7 days:1#3,887by TotalPress.org1 year ago
Custom Post Types, Custom Fields, Custom Taxonomies, Custom Templates, Custom Admin Pages, Custom Admin Notices. Directly from the WP dashboard.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.6(56)
- Downloads
- 22/day

JSM Show User Metadata
Down in the last 7 days:17#4,176by JS Morisset10 days ago
Show user metadata in a metabox when editing users - a great tool for debugging issues with user metadata.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 63/day

Advanced Views
Down in the last 7 days:16#4,192by WPLake17 days ago
Query, filter and display content dynamically - WooCommerce and CPT Grids, ACF Galleries, MetaBox Maps and more.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(36)
- Downloads
- 92/day
Edit Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:12#4,517by Jay3 years ago
A simple interface to edit or delete Custom Fields.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(16)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Custom field finder
Down in the last 7 days:20#4,566by Yoast1 month ago
Allows you to easily find the custom fields (including hidden custom fields) and their values for a post, page or custom post type post.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 19/day

Ajax Load More for Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:24#4,587by Darren Cooney1 year ago
Ajax Load More extension that adds compatibility with various field types for Advanced Custom Fields.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 23/day

MB Elementor Integration
Down in the last 7 days:13#5,063by Anh Tran20 days ago
Integrates Meta Box's custom fields with the Elementor page builder via dynamic tags.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Profile Extra Fields by BestWebSoft
Down in the last 7 days:8#5,208by bestwebsoft2 months ago
Add custom fields to WordPress user profiles and WooCommerce forms. Easily collect and display extra user information using a simple interface.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(15)
- Downloads
- 31/day

Get Custom Field Values
Up in the last 7 days:6#5,690by Scott Reilly3 years ago
Use widgets, shortcodes, and/or template tags to easily retrieve and display custom field values for posts or pages.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

MB Rest API
Up in the last 7 days:13#5,780by Anh Tran2 days ago
Get and update Meta Box custom fields to the WordPress REST API responses.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 23/day

Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:3#5,841by Adam Walter4 years ago
Restrict Advanced Custom Fields color picker to a specific subset of colors. Removes color wheel from the field UI so user can't pick other color …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 16/day

Custom Fields for Gutenberg
Down in the last 7 days:24#6,191by Jeff Starr7 days ago
Restores the Custom Field meta box for the Gutenberg Block Editor.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(17)
- Downloads
- 25/day
PT Theme Addon
Up in the last 7 days:1#6,284by ProDesigns8 years ago
Plugin to add team, testimonial portfolio and clients custom post type. Each post type has its widget and shortcode to use in theme.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Cosmo Block Edit Mode for ACF
Down in the last 7 days:7#6,661by Bakhodir Sh1 month ago
Brings back the "Switch to Edit / Switch to Preview" toggle and the field form inside ACF blocks, instead of only in the sidebar.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 23/day

Custom Field For WP Job Manager
Up in the last 7 days:1#7,395by theme funda3 months ago
The ultimate field editor for WP Job Manager. Easily add, edit, and manage custom job and company fields without any coding.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 12/day

ACF
Down in the last 7 days:10#7,563by danielpataki11 years ago
A field for Advanced Custom Fields which allows you to select a sidebar
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.3(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Theme Toolkit
Up in the last 7 days:9#7,626by ProDesigns8 years ago
Theme toolkit is a plugin to register custom post types, widgets and shortcodes to add additional feature and functionality to any WordPress theme.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Custom Metadata Manager
Up in the last 7 days:45#7,800by Mohammad Jangda2 months ago
A code-only developer plugin for registering custom fields on posts, pages, custom post types, users and comments.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.4(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

JSM Show Order Metadata for WooCommerce HPOS
Up in the last 7 days:12#7,817by JS Morisset10 days ago
Show WooCommerce order metadata in a metabox when editing HPOS orders - a great tool for debugging issues with HPOS order metadata.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Advanced Gallery & Repeater Fields for ACF
Up in the last 7 days:118#7,920by UX Design Experts2 months ago
Advanced ACF fields with built-in layouts. Works with free ACF! Gallery & Repeater fields with masonry, carousel, lightbox & more.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 22/day

MB FacetWP Integration
Up in the last 7 days:11#7,938by Anh Tran11 months ago
Integrates Meta Box custom fields with FacetWP. Make custom fields filterable.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Repeaterly
Up in the last 7 days:68#8,174by Techimium27 days ago
Use ACF Repeater, Relationship & Flexible Content fields in Elementor — free Dynamic Tags included. No Elementor Pro needed.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 20/day
SuperCPT
Down in the last 7 days:26#8,336by 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
ACF Enhanced Message Field
Down in the last 7 days:29#8,427by Dreb Bitanghol10 years ago
Adds an enhanced version of the default Message field to accept PHP and certainly no wpauto().
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

MB Yoast SEO Integration
Up in the last 7 days:11#8,450by Anh Tran1 year ago
Add content of Meta Box custom fields to Yoast SEO Content Analysis.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

ACF
Up in the last 7 days:8#8,514by danielpataki11 years ago
A field for Advanced Custom Fields which allows you to select one or more user roles
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

ACF to Custom Database Tables
Down in the last 7 days:33#8,630by Abhishek2 years ago
An ACF add-on plugin to save custom fields data in a structured database table instead of WordPress's post meta table.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.6(8)
- Downloads
- 31/day
Display custom fields in the frontend
Down in the last 7 days:43#8,765by Jose Vega2 months ago
Display post and user custom fields data anywhere on the frontend using a shortcode, including advanced custom fields (ACF) fields.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day