9 Best Post Meta Data Manager Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Post Meta Data Manager has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 9 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 9 closest alternatives to Post Meta Data Manager
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Ultimate Fields
Closest match5.0 (20) 500+ active installsEasy and powerful custom fields management: Post Meta, Options Pages, Repeaters and many field types!
Shares the meta, post meta tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since May 15, 2018.
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4.6 (30) 6,000+ active installsTransform your Query Loop blocks into powerful, flexible content engines! 🚀
Shares the post meta tag on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, last updated 7 days ago.
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5.0 (26) 400+ active installsAllows you to add notes to plugins.
Shares the meta tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since July 16, 2015.
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5.0 (25) 3,000+ active installsWidget with login, logout, admin and register links. Replacement of the default Meta widget.
Shares the meta tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since September 5, 2020.
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5.0 (23) 7,000+ active installsClone of the standard Meta widget plus options to hide log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress.org/custom links.
Shares the meta tag on WordPress.org. About 7 times the installs, no update since February 9, 2018.
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5.0 (28) 10,000+ active installsThis plugin will remove the version info appended to enqueued style and script urls along with Meta Generator in the head section and in RSS feeds.
Shares the meta tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated September 23, 2025.
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4.8 (29) 4,000+ active installsA plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types.
Shares the meta tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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4.9 (28) 10,000+ active installsQuickly and easily reorder taxonomy terms with an easy to use and intuitive drag and drop interface.
Shares the meta tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since March 22, 2023.
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4.7 (33) 10,000+ active installsAllows the modification of META titles, descriptions and keywords for all pages and posts. Also allows for default setting for of META title, descript …
Shares the meta tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated August 6, 2026.
Switching from Post Meta Data Manager: common questions
What is the best alternative to Post Meta Data Manager?
Ultimate Fields is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 500+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Post Meta Data Manager alternative has the most users?
Meta Generator and Version Info Remover, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Are these Post Meta Data Manager 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 Post Meta Data Manager 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 Post Meta Data Manager 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
Ultimate Fields is the closest match to Post Meta Data Manager by the data we track, and Meta Generator and Version Info Remover has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. NS Featured Posts shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 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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