Use Wordpress as a Collection Manager. Customize Wordpress' post edit screen by creating your own metadata schema's.
As of April 2026, Meta Collections is a WordPress post type plugin with 10 active installations and a 1/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Custom Post Type UI.
Meta Collections is developed to turn WordPress into a Collection manager.
Beside ‘Posts’ and ‘Pages’ you can add your own custom post types (a Collection e.g. ‘Films’, ‘Recipes’ or ‘Products’).
For that particular post type you can add you own Metadata schema (custom fields: For ‘Products’ a price, image and manufacturer field).
For example, if you want a Dublin Core metadata schema you can. That schema can be a mixture of system and custom fields or a completely customized metadataschema.
You can intuitively compose the user interface for the post type in a preview screen by dragging and dropping metafields in the right places using neat metaboxes.
Fields can be validated and can consist of multiple…
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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