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CMB2

by Justin SternbergVersion 2.13.5

CMB2 is a metabox, custom fields, and forms library for WordPress that will blow your mind.

Active installs
300,000+
#192 of 1,000
Downloads, all time
5.7M
5,719,644
Downloads, 30 days
273.1K
82.3K in the last 7
Rating
5.0 / 5
91 reviews
Last updated
4 days ago
Oct 27, 2026
Version
2.13.5
8 releases

Upkeep and compatibility

Last updatedOctober 27, 2026Updated in the last 3 months
Tested up toWordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release
Needs WordPress3.8.0 or newer
Needs PHP7.4 or newer
First publishedSeptember 16, 2014
Support, last two monthsNo threads opened

Reviews

5.0 / 5 from 91 reviews

Reviews by star rating
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Downloads, last 30 days

Low 1.5K a dayHigh 48.9K a day

What the author says it does

CMB2 is a developer’s toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress that will blow your mind. Easily manage meta for posts, terms, users, comments, or create custom option pages.

CMB2 is a complete rewrite of Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress. To get started, please follow the examples in the included example-functions.php file and have a look at the basic usage instructions.

You can see a list of available field types here.

Contribution

Development occurs on Github, and all contributions welcome. Please read the CONTRIBUTING doc for more details.

A complete list of all our awesome contributors found here: github.com/CMB2/CMB2/graphs/contributors

Features:

  • Create metaboxes to be used on post edit screens.
  • Create forms to be used on an options pages.
  • Create forms to handle user meta and display them on user profile add/edit pages.
  • Create forms to handle term meta and display wherever your taxonomies are used.
  • Flexible API that allows you to use CMB forms almost anywhere, even on the front-end.
  • Several field types are included.
  • Custom API hook that allows you to create your own field types.
  • There are numerous hooks and filters, allowing you to modify many aspects of the library (without editing it directly).
  • Repeatable fields for most field types are supported, as well as repeatable field groups.

The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.

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Where this page's numbers come from

Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.