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Meta Box – WordPress Custom Fields Framework

v5.10.10
by Meta Box · 4.8 (160 reviews)

Meta Box plugin is a powerful, professional developer toolkit to create custom meta boxes and custom fields for your custom post types in WordPress.

600K+ active installs Updated May 21, 2025 Tested to 6.8.1 Requires PHP 7.1
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Meta Box – WordPress Custom Fields Framework

About Meta Box – WordPress Custom Fields Framework

Meta Box is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily add custom fields and dynamic data to your website, with over 40 different field types available. It offers complete customization and control, making it developer-friendly and easy to use for creating custom post types, taxonomies, user profiles, and more. Additionally, Meta Box provides free and premium extensions for additional functionalities such as migrations, integrations with page builders and SEO plugins, and creating custom Gutenberg blocks.

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Meta Box – WordPress Custom Fields Framework screenshot
Meta Box – WordPress Custom Fields Framework screenshot
Meta Box – WordPress Custom Fields Framework screenshot
Meta Box – WordPress Custom Fields Framework screenshot

Frequently asked questions

What is Meta Box?
Meta Box is a professional framework that makes building and customizing a website with dynamic data and content in WordPress fun and easy. It helps you add custom fields and dynamic data to posts, pages, custom post types, forms and anywhere you want using over 40+ different field types.
What is Meta Box Lite?
Meta Box Lite is a feature-rich free UI version of Meta Box. It provides UI and all free features for managing custom fields and dynamic content on WordPress, including post types, taxonomies, custom fields, and relationships.
What types of custom fields can I create with Meta Box?
You can create custom fields for posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, settings pages or Customizer sections, user profile pages, and post comments. Meta Box supports over 40 built-in WordPress custom field types.

Changelog

5.10.10 – 2025-05-21

  • Fix datetime field returns null
  • Fix single image field not working with Polylang Pro
  • Fix reveal password icon not working

5.10.9 – 2025-05-08

  • Add button to toggle password (#1630)
  • Add gesture handling support for OSM field (#1631)
  • Datetime & select2: use user’s locale instead of site’s locale

5.10.8 – 2025-03-14

  • Redesign the dashboard

5.10.7 – 2025-02-25

  • Fix: max clone with clone empty start

5.10.6 – 2025-01-11

  • Fix validation for dash ids
  • Fix datetime fields not showing inline picker inside groups
  • Fix label_description not working for fieldset_text
  • Fix field label div still show when no field name but with label_description
  • Remove image_select field’s JS, styling with CSS only
  • Add gap for key value inputs

5.10.5 – 2024-12-16

  • Make validation for add new terms work
  • Improve styling of meta boxes on the sidebar in the block editor
  • Improve style of input with prepend and append
  • Fix maps/osm fields and geolocation not working with subfields in groups
  • Fix select advanced becomes normal select with cloneable setting
  • Fix validation

5.10.4 – 2024-11-20

  • OSM/Map fields: add support for select field type
  • Add $url to rwmb_oembed_not_available_string filter
  • Small CSS improvements for file input, background & button group
  • Fix not returning value for helper functions for images saving in a custom folder and using a custom table

5.10.3 – 2024-10-30

  • fix: std after saving
  • fix: field set text save empty values
  • fix: subfield’s id

5.10.2 – 2024-09-26

  • Fix issue with conditional logic
  • Fix error when removing default taxonomy meta box in the front end or with the block editor
  • Fix missing .hidden on the front end for checkbox_tree
  • Fix required attribute for select_tree

5.10.1 – 2024-09-07

  • Fix issue with clone_empty_start (validation, now showing data for the 1st clone, broken text_list field, etc.)

See full changelog here.

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