About this plugin
Fieldom gives agencies and developers a community-governed, feature-rich custom fields plugin for WordPress.
Every feature is built and maintained in the open. No freemium gates, no SaaS backend, no phone-home. Just a solid custom-fields plugin that runs entirely inside WordPress.
Key Features
- 26 field types — text, textarea, number, select, checkbox, radio, true/false, date picker, time picker, color picker, URL, email, password, file, image, gallery, post object, taxonomy, user, link, WYSIWYG, message, tab, accordion, Repeater, and Flexible Content.
- Native Repeater field — supports drag-to-reorder rows, configurable sub-fields, and min/max row limits.
- Flexible Content field — multiple layouts each with their own sub-fields, drag-to-reorder blocks.
- Options Pages — register custom admin pages and store global settings outside of post meta.
- JSON import / export — export field groups as JSON and import them on any site. Field types, choices, location rules, Repeater sub-fields, and Flexible Content layouts are all mapped automatically.
- Standard postmeta storage — values are stored in standard wp_postmeta using established key conventions, compatible with any plugin that reads WordPress post meta.
- Template helpers — fieldforge_get(), fieldforge_the(), fieldforge_have_rows(), fieldforge_the_row(), fieldforge_sub_field(), fieldforge_the_sub_field(), fieldforge_update_field(), fieldforge_get_option(), fieldforge_update_option().
- Location rules — show field groups by post type, post status, user role, page parent, or page template. OR groups and AND rules.
- Conditional logic — show or hide individual fields based on the values of other fields.
- REST API — field values exposed via the WordPress REST API with location-rule filtering.
- Local JSON sync — field groups saved as JSON files alongside your theme for version control.
- 100% GPL, no SaaS — runs entirely inside WordPress. No external services.
Basic Usage
- Go to Fieldom → Add New to create a field group.
- Click + Add Field, choose a field type, give it a name and label.
- Set a location rule (e.g. “Post Type is equal to Post”).
- Publish the field group.
- Edit any matching post — your fields appear as a meta box.
In your theme templates:
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Repeater Usage
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JSON Import
Go to Fieldom → Import / Export, paste your field group JSON, and click Import. All supported field types and location rules are mapped automatically.
md in the plugin folder for the full import guide.
Roadmap
- v0.2 — Gutenberg / block editor field meta boxes
- v0.3 — Clone field
- v0.4 — Improved conditional logic UI builder