Post Meta Inspector
Peer inside your post meta
4.8(10 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 9 years agoAs of April 2026, Post Meta Inspector is a WordPress tools plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 138K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 22% this week. Top alternative: Hostinger Tools.
4.8/510 reviews
3.0K+active installs
138K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
A quick and easy way to see post meta associated with any given post. When activated, this plugin prints your post meta keys and values inside of a post meta box.
Originally developed for WordPress.com VIP-hosted clients, we thought it would be useful for development environments, etc. too. Feel free to fork the plugin in Github and pull requests are always welcome. Hit us with feedback, questions, bug reports, and feature requests in the forums.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very useful
by Jon·7 years ago
Great plugin that really makes it easy to see all of the custom fields in a post or custom post type. Very conveniently displayed at the bottom of the post edit admin screen.
Very Useful
by saddamcrr7·7 years ago
A lifesaver plugin for developer
A life saver as a developer
by Dave Navarro, Jr.·8 years ago
Just wish it had an option to display the normal POST data,
Very useful
by Kevin·8 years ago
Very useful plugin thanks. Would be great to be able to delete/edit meta from the inspector.
Really useful
by Property Hive·8 years ago
Lovely little tool. Saves having to go into the database and look through the postmeta table when debugging. Thanks!
Download Trends
Today: 215Yesterday: 143This week: 955Period total: 21K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.1 (Feb. 5, 2014)
- Bug fix: Properly declare static methods.
Contributors
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