Ultimate Fields
With Ultimate Fields you can easily create fields in the admin. Those fields can be displayed when you are editing a post or page (any post type actually) or in an options page (ex. Theme Options) anywhere in the admin.
Use with caution
Ultimate Fields works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 400+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 8 years ago, and scores 44/100 on our health check.
- Loved by users — 5/5 from 20 reviews
- Small user base (400+ active installs)
- No update in 8 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 4.9 (latest is 7.1)
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Daily downloads
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Rankings
Where Ultimate Fields stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| custom fields | >100 |
| meta | >100 |
| post meta | >100 |
| repeater | >100 |
| theme options | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 20 reviews
About Ultimate Fields
From the official readme · v3.0.2Description
With Ultimate Fields you can easily create fields in the admin. Those fields can be displayed when you are editing a post or page (any post type actually) or in an options page (ex. Theme Options) anywhere in the admin.
Please visit https://www.ultimate-fields.com/ for more details.
Features
- Easy to use.
- Various field types (listed below)
- Support for Post Type and Options Page as locations for fields. All locations have advanced placement rules, in order to only show them when needed.
- WYSIWYG Field Creation
- Focused on developers: A clean object-oriented API allows you to cleanly define all of your fields through code.
- Perfected tabs, alignment and styles
- Import, Export and in-theme JSON Synchronization
- JavaScript-based interface
- Unlimited field nesting with the Repeater and Complex fields
- Conditional Logic between fields in the same container (and ones on upper levels)
- REST API Support
- Admin Columns
- Integration with WordPress SEO for automatic field content ratings
- Clean styles: Ultimate Fields follows WordPress’ built in styles as much as possible and provides a seamless experience. It’s even fully responsive.
- Full-featured interface for data loading
Fields
- Text
- Textarea
- WYSIWYG Editor
- Password
- Number
- Checkbox
- Select
- Multiselect
- Image-Select (a visual select)
- File
- Image
- WP Object (for selection of an object among posts, terms and users)
- WP Objects (for multiple objects)
- Link
- Section
- Tab
- Complex
- Repeater
Repeaters
Repeaters can be used to add repeatable groups of fields. You can combine a text and a file field into a Slide group and allow the user to add as many slides as he needs. The value is saved in a single field!
Additionally you can add different types of groups into a single repeater. This way the user could add both Video Slides and Image Slides through the same place.
Embedding in themes and plugins
Ultimate Fields has all the necessary logic built in. Just place it wherever you need and include ultimate-fields.php
Installation
- Upload
ultimate-fieldsto the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- You are ready to create your first container. To do this, choose “Add New” from the “Ultimate Fields” section in the menu.
- Output values through get_value(), the_value() and etc.
Please make sure to check out the documentation on our website.
Changelog
This is a complete rewrite of the plugin with renewed interface and various new functions. After upgrade, you will be required to migrate your containers to the format of the new version. Important: There are no immediate modifications of field values and the old container format will be stored in case you need to revert.
3.0.2 Bugfix Release with a couple of small features
[FIX] Limiting preview image sizes to 100% to ensure that if thumbnail is not available as an image size, images are not overflowing.
[FIX] Enqueueing overlays properly for files: The File fields were expecting the Overlay JS class to be available, but it was not enqueued.
[FIX] Values are now properly saved and loaded for WYSIWYG editors, including empty paragraphs and etc.
[FIX] Improved handling of repeater values in the REST API: The iterator format of the repeater field was not playing nicely with the REST API.
[UPDATE] Minor adjustments of the UI and complex fields in order to allow https://github.com/RadoslavGeorgiev/ultimate-fields-layout-control to work.
[FIX] Messages are not saving values anymore.
[FIX][W2422] Conditional logic is not used if unchecked
[FIX][W2439] Complex fields can now handle missing containers.
[FEATURE][W2440] Adding a target_control setting to the link field
[FIX][W2444] Empty dependency sets in array mode are ignored now.
3.0.1 Bugfix Relase
Fixes:
- A sanitization bug, prevented the options datastore from saving non-scalar values
- Post-based rules for the
Post_Typelocation, both in the UI and in core - Even when a repeater was empty, the
whileloop was being entered, which is not the case anymore - To improve compatability with “Front-end Editor”, revision fields are only provided for existing posts
3.0
3.0 is a complete rewrite of the plugin, which brings a ton of improvements, including but not limited to:
- JavaScript-driven UI
- WYSIWYG Field Creation
- New styles and field arrangements
- Proper PHP exports, as well as JSON exports
- JSON Synchronization
- Unlimited field nesting
- Conditional logic
- REST API Support
- Admin columns
- WordPress SEO Integration
- Better relational fields
- A new field type, called “Complex”
As of this version, the website, documentation and PRO version of the plugin are online too.
On June 28, 2017 we announced that the qTranslate support is being eliminated and sadly, it is no longer available. You can read more about that in https://rageorgiev.com/blog/2017/06/28/ultimate-fields-multilingual-support-will-removed/
1.2
- Updated visual styles
- Added a warning about dropping qTranslate support in the next big version
- Fixed JavaScript errors
1.1
- The MIME type of screenshots is changed in order to allow them to be viewable in the browser without downloading.
- The Richtext field has been updated to be compatible with the latest version of WordPress, 4.4.2 . A wrong link to mac.int is also fixed.
- The “Select Term” field will not trigger a fatal error when a taxonomy is no longer existing.
- Modified the filters for the textarea and richtext filter output.
- Tabs are no longer broken.
- The repeater field is working well.
1.0.3
- Adding an HTML field that is only available through code.
- UF_Datastore_Postmeta will return NULL if a value is not set. This way checkboxes and default values will work.
- Modified UF_Field_Checkbox to check for the proper value when retrieving from a datastore.
- UF_Postmeta is not calling save when a new post is being created (the draft).
- Made a few minor changes to allow Ultimate Post Types to work properly.
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FAQ
Ultimate Fields: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 12, 2026
Is Ultimate Fields free?
Yes. Ultimate Fields is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Ultimate Fields safe to use in 2026?
Ultimate Fields works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 400+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 8 years ago, and scores 44/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Ultimate Fields?
Ultimate Fields is active on 400+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 15,362 times since it launched in March 2014. It was downloaded 167 times in the last 30 days.
Does Ultimate Fields work with WordPress 7.1?
Ultimate Fields is officially tested up to WordPress 4.9.34, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
What PHP version does Ultimate Fields need?
Ultimate Fields requires PHP 5.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Ultimate Fields last updated?
The latest version, 3.0.2, was released on May 15, 2018 (8 years ago).
Who makes Ultimate Fields?
Ultimate Fields is developed and maintained by Radoslav Georgiev.
What are the best alternatives to Ultimate Fields?
The most popular alternatives to Ultimate Fields are Advanced Custom Fields (ACF… (2M+ installs), Meta Box (500K+ installs) and Checkout Field Editor (Chec… (400K+ installs).
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