Lightweight custom field manager with visual field groups, advanced ACF-style location rules, options pages, repeaters, media and galleries.
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Meta Box plugin is a powerful, professional developer toolkit to create custom meta boxes and custom fields for your custom post types in WordPress.
Adds a configurable "Search in" dropdown to WordPress admin post lists for searching by title, content, slug, meta, and taxonomies.
Restores the Custom Field meta box for the Gutenberg Block Editor.
MetaForge Enginev1.0.4
WordPress custom field builder & Advanced Custom Fields engine. Create custom fields, meta boxes, options pages & dynamic meta with zero lock-in.
Plinth Custom Fieldsv1.0.0
A self-contained custom fields manager with repeater support, location rules, and JSON import/export — no third-party dependencies required.
Use ACF, Secure Custom Fields, Pods, Meta Box and post meta in free Elementor as dynamic tags: text, link, image, gallery, number, colour and date.
MB Rest APIv2.0.6
Get and update Meta Box custom fields to the WordPress REST API responses.
MB Elementor Integrationv2.2.8
Integrates Meta Box's custom fields with the Elementor page builder via dynamic tags.
Liuer Boxv1.0.6
A custom fields framework with a visual builder and clean, native storage. Zero plugin dependencies.