CMB2
CMB2 is a metabox, custom fields, and forms library for WordPress that will blow your mind.
5(91 reviews)
·300K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, CMB2 is a WordPress forms plugin with 300K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 91 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.0M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.8.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: WPForms – Easy Form Builder for….
5/591 reviews
300K+active installs
0%resolved
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
CMB2 is a developer’s toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress that will blow your mind. Easily manage meta for posts, terms, users, comments, or create custom option pages.
CMB2 is a complete rewrite of Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress. To get started, please follow the examples in the included example-functions.php file and have a look at the basic usage instructions.
You can see a list of available field types here.
Contribution
Development occurs on Github, and all contributions welcome. Please read the CONTRIBUTING doc for more details.
A complete list of all our awesome contributors found here: github.com/CMB2/CMB2/graphs/contributors
Features:
- Create metaboxes to be used on post edit screens.
- Create forms to be used on an options pages. …
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Super useful!
by suiramus·11 months ago
Thank you for your hard work!
One of the best plugin for developers. Simple and effective.
Simple and free and much better than advance custom fields
by paknejad·11 months ago
Simple and free and much better than advance custom fields
Powerfull
by Aditya Thok·1 year ago
Powerfull, Simple and Clean
highly recommended
by nunziorash·2 years ago
Excellent plugin, I’ve always used it
So Happy to See Updates
by Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)·2 years ago·1 reply
I love CMB2. I love hooking into functions and extending addons so fields update each other intelligently, while locking out non-admins to sections.
Blocks are great, don’t get me wrong, and the extensions to make the, more hookable and meta-integrated is nice, but CMB2 gives you full and complete control, with API documented and dozens of add on plugins out there.
Using FacetWP? We have an add on!
Need to attach posts? We have an add on?
Want to use Shadow Taxonomies to connect posts instead of attaching them and somehow manage to do so dynamically and speedily?
Hey buddy. They’ve got you.
The power is yours to command.
Seeing even a version-matching-tested-up-to update makes me worry far less that this plugin will fall by the wayside.
Up next? PHP 8 compat (I hope…)
Download Trends
Today: 511Yesterday: 577This week: 4KPeriod total: 312K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.8.0+ requiredTested up to 6.4.8 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.11
79.5%
v2.10
11.8%
Other
8.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.11.0
Enhancements
- Package updates.
- Update WordPress Tested up to tag 6.1. Props @RubenMartins (#1477).
- Add filters for setting
object_idandmb_object_typeand indo_scripts– Allows overriding by plugins/libs. (Added to support the new CMB2 WooCommerce HPOS Orders extension) - Added a
cmb2_init_hookshook when hookup is called. - Addressed some security concerns with the unserialization process for the stored serialized
DateTimefield values (text_datetime_timestamp_timezonefield type only). (#1510)
…and 3 more changes
Contributors
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