10 Best Custom Post Type Widgets Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Custom Post Type Widgets sits at #4 in the WordPress.org Custom Post Type Plugins ranking. 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 Post Type Widgets
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WCK
Closest matchCustom 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.
#6 in the WordPress.org Custom Post Type Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, last updated July 15, 2026.
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4.7 (13) 10,000+ active installsCreate and manage custom post types and custom taxonomies with an easy-to-use UI in WordPress.
#5 in the WordPress.org Custom Post Type Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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4.4 (46) 10,000+ active installsMap your Gravity-Forms-generated posts to a custom post type and/or custom taxonomies.
#7 in the WordPress.org Custom Post Type Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, last updated August 4, 2026.
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4.8 (71) 200,000+ active installsEdit the permalink of custom post type.
#2 in the WordPress.org Custom Post Type Plugins ranking. About 20 times the installs, last updated May 20, 2026.
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4.6 (276) 1 million+ active installsAdmin UI for creating custom content types like post types and taxonomies
#1 in the WordPress.org Custom Post Type Plugins ranking. About 100 times the installs, last updated July 14, 2026.
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Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields
4.8 (418) 100,000+ active installsPods is a framework for creating, managing, and deploying customized content types and fields for any project.
#3 in the WordPress.org Custom Post Type Plugins ranking. About 10 times the installs, last updated 7 days ago.
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5.0 (9) 10,000+ active installsCreate unlimited custom post types and custom taxonomies.
#9 in the WordPress.org Custom Post Type Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, last updated May 13, 2026.
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Display Post Types – Post Grid, post list and post sliders
5.0 (26) 7,000+ active installsDisplay list of posts, pages or any custom post types anywhere using block and widget. Show as grid, list or posts slider.
#10 in the WordPress.org Custom Post Type Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, last updated 15 days ago.
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Meta 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.
#8 in the WordPress.org Custom Post Type Plugins ranking. About 50 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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4.9 (46) 3,000+ active installsManual related posts without slowing down your website!
Shares the custom post type, widget tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 19 days ago.
Custom Post Type Widgets against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
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Custom Post Type Widgets vs WCK10,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.7
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Custom Post Type Widgets vs MB Custom Post Types & Custom Taxonomies10,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.7
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Custom Post Type Widgets vs Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types10,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.4
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Custom Post Type Widgets vs Custom Post Type Permalinks10,000+ vs 200,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.8
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Custom Post Type Widgets vs Custom Post Type UI10,000+ vs 1 million+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.6
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Custom Post Type Widgets vs Pods10,000+ vs 100,000+ installs · 4.8 vs 4.8
Switching from Custom Post Type Widgets: common questions
What is the best alternative to Custom Post Type Widgets?
WCK is the closest match: it shares the Custom Post Type Plugins top 10 with Custom Post Type Widgets and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which Custom Post Type Widgets alternative has the most users?
Custom Post Type UI, with 1 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Custom Post Type Widgets alternative is rated highest?
Pods, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 418 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Custom Post Type Widgets 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 Post Type Widgets 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 Post Type Widgets 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
WCK is the closest match to Custom Post Type Widgets by the data we track, and Custom Post Type UI has the widest reach with 1 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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