Meta Box is a powerful, professional, and lightweight toolkit for developers to create custom meta boxes and custom fields for any custom post type in WordPress.

What can I do with Meta Box?

Meta Box helps you add custom fields and details on your website such as pages, posts, custom post types, forms and anywhere you want using over 40 different field types such as text, images, file upload, checkboxes, and more.

How do I add WordPress custom fields and custom meta boxes?

Adding WordPress custom fields and custom meta boxes for custom post types is quick and painless: Select the field types you want in the user-friendly Online Generator, then copy and paste the code into your child theme's functions.php file.

What are some features of Meta Box?

Some features of Meta Box include creating any type of metadata or custom fields in WordPress, a wide-range of field types and options, developer-friendly API, and extensions to add enhanced capabilities.

How can I learn more about Meta Box and custom fields in WordPress?

You can check out the detailed documentation and tutorials on the Meta Box website to learn more about using Meta Box and creating custom fields in WordPress.

Meta Box - WordPress Custom Fields

Features Download’s trend Changelog Reviews

Powerful Custom Fields

Create custom fields for any WordPress post type.

Lightweight and Versatile

Add custom meta boxes without slowing down your site.

Easy Customization and Control

Customize and control your WordPress data with just a few clicks.

Developer-Friendly

Use Meta Box for any project and easily integrate with any theme or plugin.

Author’s Site

5.9.6 – 2024-04-17

Add progress bar for field file_upload
Force returned value of sanitize color to string
Enqueue assets for FSE and widget (with block editor) screens
Fix jumping layout for Meta Box Conditional Logic
Fix errors when using cloneable map/osm fields

5.9.5 – 2024-03-26

Add save_format settings to time field
Field icon SVG not displaying

5.9.4 – 2024-02-27

Fix security issue when users set object id in the helper functions where they don’t have permission to view (such as private posts)

5.9.3 – 2024-02-02

Highlights:

Fix security issue of the output shortcode [rwmb_meta] not escaping. Users can disable escaping (to revert the previous behavior) by adding this snippet:

add_filter( 'rwmb_meta_shortcode_secure', '__return_false' );
// or
add_filter( 'rwmb_meta_shortcode_secure_{$field_id}', '__return_false' );

Other changes:

Fix compatibility with PHP 8.3
Fix not showing more than 10 saved users or terms

5.9.2 – 2024-01-22

Validation: fix PHP warning when fields has non-consecutive keys
Icon field: fix custom icon not working
Update jQuery Validation to 1.20.0. Props Maarten.
Prepare css to be inlined. Props Maarten.

5.9.1 – 2023-12-25

Fix preview posts not working in the block editor in WP 6.4.
Icon field: allow to set relative path/URL for settings
Icon field: add support for scanning CSS file (icon_css setting) and parsing CSS class
Autocomplete field: fix not saving first value if the value is 0 (integer).

5.9.0 – 2023-11-22

Highlights:

Add new icon field type, which supports Font Awesome Free, Font Awesome Pro and custom icon set. Can be used with icon font with CSS file or with SVGs. See the plugin docs for how to use it.

The icon field type will be added to the new version of Meta Box Builder soon, which will allow you to configure its settings with UI.

See full changelog here.

One of the best

By daryumi on March 21, 2024

Metabox is one of the best CPT plugins out here!

Great, but breaks previews in WP6.4

By jacobph on November 27, 2023

Great plugin, easy to use, been a fan for years.

Unfortunately, as of WP 6.4, this plugin breaks the ability to preview posts. I'd amend this review with a higher score once that's fixed, but it's a major problem.

Excellent Product and Support

By Cory Lamle (cory@lamle.org) on November 25, 2023

Compared to the competition, the design and extensibility of this plugin is significantly better. Its performance is better and it doesn't suffer from code bloat. Its learning curve is a bit steep, however that is what really sets it apart from the others. The support team is pretty responsive with tickets and the documentation is pretty good! I'll be using the pro version of plugin going forward for custom setups. Cheers~

Endless possibilities

By cubantek on November 21, 2023

The more I use MetaBox the more I see it can do so much more than I thought. They are also constantly releasing real life training examples, which is very helpful. Plus lots of documentation. Thanks so much for the hard work and effort you put in.

Fantastic one for custom fields

By reenz92 on October 31, 2023

I tried Metabox because of its custom table feature, but I've been utilizing ACF. Everything operates without a hitch, and the documentation for configuring custom fields is excellent.

Superb support

By RVandenbussche on October 20, 2023

~~This plugin makes some texts and URL's in the advanced translator of WPML disappear.~~

After advanced troubleshooting the problem lies within a different plugin. Thank you for the quick support!

If you need custom fields and meta boxed use this.

By Florian (pictibe) on September 20, 2023

Love this plugin since a few years and the developer bundle is so nice. You can realize everything what you want. Really big improvement in time and money.

I love how "clean" and "solid" it is.

By ioperator on January 28, 2023

I am a Bricks user and therefore I decided to use Metabox as an addition to it becasue it is officially supported. It is a great product and I love how it handles the entries in the Database compared to e.g. JetEngine. This plugin has preformance in mind and is fieldtested by many users, therefore you cannot go wrong pruchasing this product.

Also the LTD options are amazing because like in my case--> I am not a huge agency or something like that --> my 2 sites I made for "customer/friends" hardly pay for hosting/installed plugins etc. I am mostly in for this because I am entusiastic towards this product (and my future) --> it is a solid product and worthy the support.

Fixed within the day, great support

By wigglypoppins on December 6, 2022

Never had an issue with this plugin until today when an update caused a fatal error on a clients site, I put in a support request and it was fixed within the day, great development team!

Great product!

By Jim Hunter (jdhunter) on December 5, 2022

I have been using Metabox AIO for 2+ years now and can't live without it. It's one of the first plugins I add to all my sites. And recently there was a compatibility issue between Metabox Views and the new page builder Breakdance. The devs at Metabox were able to resolve it and put out a new version in less than 48 hours! And the fix works perfect. With the amount of time MB saves me, it is more than worth twice what I pay for it every year. Thanks for a great product! Jim

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