Best metabox plugins for WordPress
The most popular metabox plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Ocean Extra leads with 400K+ active installs, ahead of Pure Metafields (10K+) and Multi Image Metabox (6K+). All 53 plugins tagged “metabox” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 metabox plugins
- 1.Ocean Extra
The most installed metabox plugin, with 400K+ active installs. Rated 3.3 from 67 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 2.
Pure Metafields10K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 6 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 3.Multi Image Metabox
6K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 11 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 4.
CubeWP Framework3K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 12 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 5.WebMan Amplifier
1K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 7 reviews, updated 7 months ago.
- 6.
Attesa Extra1K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.
Categories Metabox Enhanced1K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 16 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 8.Template List Metabox
900+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 9.
Multi Image Upload300+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 10.
WP User Profiles200+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 19 reviews, updated 4 weeks ago.
All 53 plugins tagged “metabox”
Ocean Extra
#130by oceanwp27 days ago
The ultimate companion for OceanWP. Adds local Google Fonts, mega menus, site templates, and per-page settings for total design authority.
- Installs
- 400K+
- Rating
- 3.3(67)
- Downloads
- 2.6K/day

Pure Metafields
Down in the last 7 days:8#2,111by Themepure14 days ago
Pure Metafields is very light weight plugin tused to create custom metabox for any post type like page, post and your custom post type support it.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 89/day
Multi Image Metabox
Down in the last 7 days:58#2,681by Willy Bahuaud9 years ago
Add a multi-image metabox to your posts, pages and custom post types
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.9(11)
- Downloads
- 16/day

CubeWP Framework
Down in the last 7 days:33#3,656by 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
- 42/day
WebMan Amplifier
Down in the last 7 days:5#5,133by WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas8 months ago
Amplifies functionality of WP themes. Provides custom post types, shortcodes, metaboxes, icons. Theme developer's best friend!
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.9(7)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Attesa Extra
Down in the last 7 days:8#6,315by CrestaProject2 months ago
Add extra features to Attesa WordPress theme
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 19/day

Categories Metabox Enhanced
Down in the last 7 days:5#6,895by Yoren Chang4 months ago
Replace the checkboxes with radio buttons or a select drop-down in the built-in Categories metabox and the Block Editor sidebar panel.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(16)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Template List Metabox
Down in the last 7 days:14#7,122by 010pixel8 years ago
Template list metabox is to create Metabox for Dropdown List of all available Templates to attach with any Custom Post Types
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Multi Image Upload
Up in the last 7 days:37#10,329by Tahir Yasin7 years ago
This plugin adds a meta box to upload multiple images for posts and pages.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP User Profiles
Up in the last 7 days:41#11,596by John James Jacoby29 days ago
A sophisticated way to edit users in WordPress.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.3(19)
- Downloads
- 60/day
Meta Content
Up in the last 7 days:7#12,137by Mervin Praison1 year ago
A meta box which helps us to add content or scripts to any part of the website, on each individual post/page. Easy to Implement with Shortcode.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
IT Listings
Down in the last 7 days:85#12,567by indithemes10 months ago
Custom Post Types and additional Functionality for IT Residence WordPress Theme
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Entity Viewer
Down in the last 7 days:198#14,548by versusbassz2 years ago
Displays properties and custom fields of WordPress entities (posts, users, terms, comments) for debugging/development purposes.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Featured Item Metabox
Down in the last 7 days:199#17,952by HelgaTheViking6 years ago
Quickly add a metabox to any post type for marking a post as featured. Toggle featured status even more quickly from the posts lists/ quick edit scre …
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 8/day

Display post meta, term meta, comment meta, and user meta
Down in the last 7 days:109#18,606by Manuel Canga2 years ago
Displays metadata in a metabox on the creation/editing pages for posts (any CPT), terms (any taxonomy), and users. The metadata is shown in a human-re …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Featured Image Metabox
#19,010by Yoren Chang12 years ago
Custom the title, content and set / remove link text in the Featured Image metabox.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day

Drag & Drop Featured Image Improved
Down in the last 7 days:28#21,115by wpgenie213 days ago
Drag and Drop Featured Image Improved replaces the default featured image box with a drag and drop zone for faster and more convenient uploads.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Modern Fields, Custom Fields for Gutenberg
Up in the last 7 days:1,692#21,181by maximebj19 days ago
Custom Fields, options pages and metaboxes for the block Editor to improve your full site editing experience.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WebPage Custom Schema (Schema.org JSON-LD)
Up in the last 7 days:46#21,474by Andrei F.4 years ago
WebPage Schema Plugin allows you to use your custom full-featured schema. Schema (JSON-LD) is the most important factor in search engine optimization.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- 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
WP Alternative Slug by 010Pixel
#23,971by 010pixel8 years ago
Create alternative slug (url) for each page, post or custom post type which will redirect to same main page.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Ultimate Metabox Tabs
Down in the last 7 days:16#24,174by SilbinaryWolf13 years ago
Ultimate Metabox Tabs allows for keeping your post/page and ACF options user friendly for your client with the use of tabs.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Kemet Addons
Down in the last 7 days:102#24,454by Leap132 years ago
Kemet Addons plugin adds more features to Kemet WordPress Theme like metaboxes, activate/deactivate the customizer options.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Select All Terms
Down in the last 7 days:378#24,764by luistinygod9 years ago
Adds buttons to select-all / deselect-all terms on taxonomies' metaboxes
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Call Button
#27,890by pushlabs9 years ago
A modern, easy to use call button that shoots to increase conversions and drive sales!
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP GeoPosts
#28,992by fyaconiello14 years ago
A simple Wordpress plugin for adding geographic data to posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Meta Box Order
Down in the last 7 days:141#29,700by Mustafa Uysal10 years ago
Easily change the order of the meta boxes on the posts screen.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Massoftind Custom Fields & Field Builder
#30,998by Mass Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.18 days ago
Custom fields & field builder for WordPress — metabox UI, repeaters, ACF migration, Gutenberg bindings, Bricks/Elementor, WPML, conditional logic.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Breakout Box
Up in the last 7 days:582#31,611by dk234355t612 years ago
Plugin for WordPress that adds a meta "Breakout Box"
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Upload Multiple Image
Down in the last 7 days:116#31,624by suhasrathod12 years ago
This plugin adds a meta box for multiple images for all posts and pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 1/day
MetaBox Creator
Down in the last 7 days:1,109#33,879by Paul-Henri11 years ago
Advanced tool to easily create meta boxes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Esen Trends Dashboard
Up in the last 7 days:106#34,379by Kemal CIZOGLU11 months ago
Display Google Trends RSS data directly in your WordPress dashboard and post editor.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
flodjiContacts
Up in the last 7 days:6,460#39,654by Florian Leyrer12 years ago
So wirds benutzt: [contact-box] Dazu gibt es dann unter jedem Artikel eine Metabox über die die Contact Box befüllt wird.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
iG:Custom Metaboxes
Up in the last 7 days:4,967#41,186by Amit Gupta11 years ago
A WordPress plugin to provide an object oriented and clean API for creating custom meta-boxes on wp-admin post_type add/edit screens.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Metabox Glue
Down in the last 7 days:5,649#43,520by cubecolour1 year ago
Glues the editor metaboxes in place so they cannot be repositioned or minimised.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Take Note
Down in the last 7 days:2,710#46,188by burak10 years ago
You can take note with this plugin. It shows up under content editor. Notes won't appear on actual pages. So visitors can't see your notes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
YouTube metabox
Down in the last 7 days:227#47,323by CongBom9 years ago
Create YouTube meta-box for post with live preview
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Multiple Image Upload
Down in the last 7 days:8,800#47,405by rakeshisro3319 years ago
Plugin to upload multiple images and can delete and edit images. Returns attachement ids and can be used in making custom gallery.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Easy Meta Builder
Down in the last 7 days:10,382#47,453by modemlooper9 years ago
The fastest and easiest way to add meta fields to WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Search Taxonomy GT
#47,583by GTPlugins13 years ago
Search Taxonomy GT - This plugin adds a functionality inside the taxonomy metabox when inserting/editing posts for live taxonomy term search.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Bonzer Custom Fields Creator
Up in the last 7 days:483#47,876by Paras Ralhan10 months ago
Create wide array of input fields at various location in the admin panel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Effortless Custom Fields :
Down in the last 7 days:2,229#65,952by Paras Ralhan1 month ago
World’s least confusing custom fields plugin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WordsTree Pocket Navigator
Down in the last 7 days:15,220#68,386by lotharthesavior8 years ago
The plugin to make available for you, while you write, your Pocket favorites.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Snvk Gallery Metabox
Down in the last 7 days:8,032#70,125by sushilsankwal5 years ago
Snvk media gallery metabox is a wordpress plugin that allow you to add gallery video metabox in post, page or any custom post type.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MOHI CPT
#70,718by Mohimenul Islam5 months ago
Easily register high-performance Custom Post Types for Portfolios and Testimonial showcases, tailored perfectly for the MOHI ecosystem.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Elix Custom Fields and Post Types
#71,599by Elix Apps14 days ago
Advanced, high-performance, modular custom fields framework for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day