10 Best Custom Fields for Gutenberg Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Custom Fields for Gutenberg has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Custom Fields for Gutenberg
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Meta Box
Closest matchMeta Box – A Framework for Dynamic Websites
4.8 (165) 500,000+ active installsMeta Box plugin is a powerful, professional developer toolkit to create custom meta boxes and custom fields for your custom post types in WordPress.
Shares the custom fields, meta box tags on WordPress.org. About 500 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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4.5 (21) 10,000+ active installsCustom blocks for WordPress made easy.
Shares the blocks, gutenberg tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated April 20, 2026.
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Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK
4.7 (97) 10,000+ active installsA must have tool for creating custom fields, custom post types and taxonomies, fast and without any programming knowledge.
Shares the custom fields tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated July 15, 2026.
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Flexible Product Fields
Paid version availableFlexible Product Fields (WooCommerce Product Addons) – WooCommerce Product Page Editor
4.5 (105) 10,000+ active installsAdd extra product options on your WooCommerce product page. Product addons for all product variations. 20 free product addons.
Shares the custom fields tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Custom post types, Custom Fields & more
4.6 (56) 3,000+ active installsCustom Post Types, Custom Fields, Custom Taxonomies, Custom Templates, Custom Admin Pages, Custom Admin Notices. Directly from the WP dashboard.
Shares the custom fields tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since August 5, 2025.
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4.5 (159) 9,000+ active installsThis awesome plugin allows you to easily display frontend forms on your site so your clients can easily edit content by themselves from the frontend.
Shares the custom fields tag on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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Lazy Blocks
Paid version availableCustom Block Builder – Lazy Blocks
4.9 (80) 20,000+ active installsEasily create custom blocks and custom meta fields for Gutenberg without hard coding.
Shares the blocks, gutenberg tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated 7 days ago.
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Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®)
4.5 (1,438) 2 million+ active installsACF helps customize WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields. Proudly powering over 2 million sites, WordPress developers love ACF.
Shares the custom fields tag on WordPress.org. About 2,000 times the installs, last updated 11 days ago.
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Checkout Field Editor for WooCommerce
Paid version availableCheckout Field Editor (Checkout Manager) for WooCommerce
4.9 (1,056) 400,000+ active installsCheckout Field Editor (Checkout Manager) for WooCommerce – The best WooCommerce checkout manager plugin to manage WooCommerce checkout fields.
Shares the custom fields tag on WordPress.org. About 400 times the installs, last updated 6 days ago.
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Advanced Custom Fields: Extended
4.8 (132) 100,000+ active installsAll-in-one enhancement suite that improves WordPress & Advanced Custom Fields.
Shares the custom fields tag on WordPress.org. About 100 times the installs, last updated 11 days ago.
Switching from Custom Fields for Gutenberg: common questions
What is the best alternative to Custom Fields for Gutenberg?
Meta Box is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 500,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Custom Fields for Gutenberg alternative has the most users?
Advanced Custom Fields, with 2 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Custom Fields for Gutenberg alternative is rated highest?
Checkout Field Editor for WooCommerce, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 1,056 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Custom Fields for Gutenberg alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Custom Fields for Gutenberg score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Custom Fields for Gutenberg on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Meta Box is the closest match to Custom Fields for Gutenberg by the data we track, and Advanced Custom Fields has the widest reach with 2 million+ active installs. Meta Box shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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