Stores meta data (i.e plugin settings) from the meta field of a WP REST API posts or pages POST creation call in the created page or post meta data.
As of April 2026, REST API Meta Support is a WordPress meta plugin with 7.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 1.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 13% this week. Top alternative: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®).
Automatically stores the meta data from the meta field of a wordpress REST API posts (/wp-json/wp/v2/posts) or pages (/wp-json/wp/v2/pages) POST in the meta data associated with the created page or post using update_post_meta. The key / value information sent in the REST POST ‘meta’ object field is stored as both ‘key’ and ‘_key’ to support different plugin formats.
For example, if trying to set the YOAST SEO Plugin values dynamically when creating a page from the REST API, you would simply add the fields to the meta field of the REST POST data when you POST the endpoint, and the plugin values will be added to the page:
{
...
'meta': {
'yoast_wpseo_title': "Title set from REST call"
'yoast_wpseo_metadesc': "Meta description set from REST call"…Worked immediately upon activation.
This plugin was developed and used to generate pages with a review plugin configured programatically using the rest API per page and works as described.
| WordPress | 1.0+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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