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Easy Post Types and Fields

Easy Post Types and Fields makes it quick and easy to add custom post types, custom fields, and taxonomies to your WordPress website.

By Barn2 Plugins·Custom Data·Free
2.7(3 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months ago
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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.

2.7/53 reviews
1.0K+active installs
22K+total downloads
4 yearssince 2022

Overview

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…

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Ratings & Reviews

2.73 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Uninstalled
by mlbrock·5 months ago·1 reply

Caused significant slowdown on my site.

There are betters ones
by Don J·2 years ago

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.

Eh…
by cherokeehouse·2 years ago

Worked. But I ended up deleting the plugin and adding a few lines of code to do the same thing.

Download Trends

Today: 5Yesterday: 8This week: 44Period total: 6K

Compatibility

WordPress6.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP7.4+ required

Version Adoption

v1.1
100.0%

Top Alternatives to Easy Post Types and Fields

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.1.14

Release date 2 September 2025

  • Dev: Added translation files for most used languages in WordPress
  • Fix: The tooltip content was not showing
  • New: Added the link to custom fields/taxonomies in the setup wizard

See changelog.txt for more details.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Barn2 PluginsBarn2 Plugins
Plugin Info
Version
1.1.14
Last Updated
Dec 4, 2025
WP Requires
6.1+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
22K+
Added
May 7, 2022
Business
Free

Tags

custom datameta fieldscustom fieldcustom taxonomycustom post type

Developer

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