Easy Post Types and Fields makes it quick and easy to add custom post types, custom fields, and taxonomies to your WordPress website.
As of April 2026, Easy Post Types and Fields is a WordPress custom data plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 2.7/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 22K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.1+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Downloads are up 22% this week. Top alternative: WP Custom Data.
Easy Post Types and Fields makes it quick and easy to add custom post types, custom fields, and taxonomies to your WordPress website.
There are lots of reasons why WordPress site owners need to add extra content types to the CMS:
Create dedicated areas for each type of content within the WordPress admin (these are called ‘custom post types’). For example, if you’re adding ‘Resources’ to your site then it’s best to create a ‘Resources’ custom post type and manage the resources separately from your pages and posts.
Add extra fields (called ‘custom fields’) to your pages, posts, or any custom post type. These are useful for storing and displaying information in a structured way. For example, you might add a ‘Modified Date’ field to your Resources post type.
Create extra ways of catego…
Caused significant slowdown on my site.
This plugin was extensively researched by our programmers and was compared to others with similar solutions. Lacks features, its design is weak and we found conflicts with other plugins. It’s the 3rd time that we find Barn2 plugins not satisfactory.
Worked. But I ended up deleting the plugin and adding a few lines of code to do the same thing.
| WordPress | 6.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Release date 2 September 2025
See changelog.txt for more details.
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