Meta Box – A Framework for Dynamic Websites vs Promptless CPT Pages

You want to add events, team members, testimonials, or listings to your WordPress site. But the standard editor only handles posts and pages. You need something more, but you don’t want to overcomplicate things or slow down your site. Meta Box gives you everything you need to build dynamic WordPress sites – with over 40+ field types for adding custom fields to posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, settings pages, users, and comments. It’s lightweight (no bloat), flexible (works with any theme or plugin), and fast (uses native WordPress storage). No lock-in, no extra baggage. Any type of custom fields, anywhere Add custom fields to any part of WordPress: Posts & Pages – Add extra fields to regular content Custom post types – Use with our free CPT UI plugin to create custom post types and taxonomies Taxonomies – Categories, tags, and custom taxonomies via MB Term Meta Settings pages – Theme/plugin options via MB Settings Page Users – Profile fields via MB User Meta Comments – Comment fields via MB Comment Meta 40+ field types (and you can add your own) Meta Box ships with 40+ built-in field types: text, textarea, WYSIWYG, image, file upload, post select, checkbox, radio, date/time picker, taxonomy, user, oEmbed, and more. You can also create custom field types. Most fields support cloning and repeatable groups. Developer-friendly by design Lightweight API – Won’t bloat your site Modular – Add only what you need Native storage – Uses WordPress meta tables by default for speed and compatibility, and can be extended to custom tables for advanced setups Composer support – Integrates with modern PHP workflows Hooks – Extensive actions and filters for customization Integration-ready – Works with any theme or plugin Get more with Meta Box Meta Box Lite is the UI version of Meta Box that helps you manage everything visually – custom fields, post types, taxonomies, and more – without touching code. Meta Box AIO is an all-in-one plugin that bundles all free and premium extensions, giving you everything from conditional logic to frontend submissions, custom tables to Gutenberg blocks – all in one package. Documentation Full documentation and tutorials are available to get you started: Introduction Custom post types Custom fields Field settings Displaying fields You might also like If you like this plugin, you might also like our other WordPress products: Slim SEO – A fast, lightweight and full-featured SEO plugin for WordPress with minimal configuration. Falcon – A lightweight companion for making WordPress faster, cleaner, and more secure. GretaThemes – Free and premium WordPress themes that clean, simple and just work. Auto Listings – A car sale and dealership plugin for WordPress. External services This plugin may connect to third-party services when you use certain features. No data is sent until those features are used. Google Maps The map field uses the Google Maps JavaScript API to show maps and look up addresses. When a map field is displayed in the admin or on the frontend, the browser loads the Google Maps script. Address searches and map coordinates are sent to Google. You must supply your own Google Maps API key. This service is provided by Google: terms of use, privacy policy. OpenStreetMap The OSM field uses OpenStreetMap tiles to show maps and Nominatim to look up addresses. When an OSM field is displayed, the browser requests map tiles from OpenStreetMap. Address searches are sent to Nominatim. This service is provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation: terms of use, privacy policy. Nominatim usage is also covered by the Nominatim usage policy.

Promptless CPT Pages provides a constrained, opinionated primitive for repeatable structured content on custom-post-type single pages: Register custom post types from an admin UI — no ACF / MetaBox / Pods dependency. Define “groupings” per CPT — named clusters of items sharing a layout variant and a position (above main / below main / sidebar). Items follow one shape — { image-or-icon, heading, supporting_text, optional link }. Four layout variants per grouping — compact-grid, card-grid, featured-card, horizontal-row. Three source modes — manual, child_posts, taxonomy_match. Curated icon library of 53 icons across 13 categories, extensible via the pre_icon_library filter. Connector REST API + MCP tools (18 endpoints under /wp-json/post-runtime/v1/connector/) so AI assistants like Claude Cowork can register CPTs, define groupings, populate per-post values, and preview rendered output. Design-token inheritance from Promptless WP — colors, spacing, typography, radii. Graceful fallback when Promptless is not installed. Promptless CPT Pages is positioned as a free companion plugin to Promptless WP (the page builder) and Promptless Forms (the form renderer). It owns dynamic CPT single-page rendering; it does not replace Promptless for landing-page composition or Promptless Forms for forms. External Services This plugin connects to one third-party service: the Iconify API. It is used solely to display icons that you choose to use, and only when you opt into using them. If you do not use Iconify icons, no external service is ever contacted. Iconify API What it is and what it is for: the plugin bundles the open-source iconify-icon web component locally (assets/js/iconify-icon.min.js — it is shipped inside the plugin and is NOT loaded from any CDN). When a CPT single page, archive card, grouping item, or post field uses an Iconify-format icon identifier written in collection:name form (for example mdi:home or material-symbols:business-outline), the web component requests that single icon’s SVG path data from the Iconify API at render time so the icon can be displayed. This is what makes 200,000+ open-source icons available without bundling them all into the plugin. What data is sent, and when: only the icon identifier you chose to use (for example mdi:home) is sent, as part of the request URL, at the moment a page containing that icon is viewed in a visitor’s browser. The request is made by the visitor’s browser — not by your server. No personal data, no user content, no site URL, and no identifiers of any kind are transmitted. When it is NOT contacted: the plugin also ships a built-in library of 53 icons that render inline as SVG with zero network requests. If you use only those built-in icons — or no icons at all — the Iconify API is never contacted. Service provider: Iconify (Iconify OÜ). Endpoints contacted: https://api.iconify.design (primary), with https://api.simplesvg.com and https://api.unisvg.com as automatic fallbacks used only if the primary endpoint is unreachable. Terms of use: https://iconify.design/docs/api/ — the Iconify API is a free, open-source public service released under the Apache 2.0 License; the “Public API” section documents the terms of use. Privacy policy: https://iconify.design/privacy/