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Plugin info

Total downloads: 21,533,766
Active installs: 1,000,000
Total reviews: 271
Average rating: 4.6
Support threads opened: 5
Support threads resolved: 2 (40%)
Available in: 22 language(s)
Contributors: 11
Last updated: 12/5/2025 (25 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 2/26/2010 (15 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 6.6
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9
Minimum PHP version: 7.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 25 days ago • Support resolved 40% • 271 reviews

77/100

Is Custom Post Type UI abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 25 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 6.6
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 7.4

Ratings

231
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7
4
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Developers

Brad Williams (Owner)5webdevstudios (Owner)8John Hawkins (Owner)8Michael Beckwith (Owner)9modemlooper (Owner)11webdevstudios21Michael Beckwith18pluginize11modemlooper10Brad Williams9John Hawkins6

Languages

Spanish (Spain)32,360Dutch30,206Russian27,196French (France)20,849German19,853Spanish (Venezuela)17,048Italian15,565Japanese14,019Spanish (Colombia)13,464Spanish (Mexico)13,287Portuguese (Brazil)13,276Spanish (Ecuador)11,738Dutch (Formal)11,736English (UK)9,973German (Formal)9,953English (Canada)8,372Persian8,053Spanish (Chile)8,024Portuguese (Portugal)5,491Arabic4,417Spanish (Costa Rica)1,678

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Description

Custom Post Type UI provides an easy-to-use interface for registering and managing custom post types and taxonomies for your website.

Custom Post Type UI Extended

CPTUI helps create custom content types, but displaying that content can be a whole new challenge. Custom Post Type UI Extended was created to help with displaying your crafted content. View our Layouts page to see available layout examples with Custom Post Type UI Extended.

Plugin development

Custom Post Type UI development is managed on GitHub, with official releases published on WordPress.org. The GitHub repo can be found at https://github.com/WebDevStudios/custom-post-type-ui. Please use the WordPress.org support tab for potential bugs, issues, or enhancement ideas.

Installation

Admin Installer via search

  1. Visit the Add New plugin screen and search for “custom post type ui”.
  2. Click the “Install Now” button.
  3. Activate the plugin.
  4. Navigate to the “CPTUI” Menu.

Admin Installer via zip

  1. Visit the Add New plugin screen and click the “Upload Plugin” button.
  2. Click the “Browse…” button and select zip file from your computer.
  3. Click “Install Now” button.
  4. Once done uploading, activate Custom Post Type UI.

Manual

  1. Upload the Custom Post Type UI folder to the plugins directory in your WordPress installation.
  2. Activate the plugin.
  3. Navigate to the “CPTUI” Menu.

That’s it! Now you can easily start creating custom post types and taxonomies in WordPress.

Frequently Asked Questions

User documentation

Please see https://docs.pluginize.com/tutorials/custom-post-type-ui/

Review feed

swinggraphics
3/18/2022

Good, but missing a bunch of options.

Works well, but it's missing a number of CPT options: rest_namespace, capabilities, map_meta_cap, register_meta_box_cb, rewrite[feeds, pages, ep_mask], template, and template_lock. I realize these are not common, but it's a drag when you go to create your third CPT and realize you need to find a different solution that will accommodate one of the missing options. It's no good to have a few registered in CPTUI and a few by hand.
pedjas
1/5/2023

One of the worst documented plugins I saw

There is no documentation. In plugin description there is just a link to so called documentation that is just bunch of tutorial of doing specific stuff that are very scarce and targeted to people who already know how to use it. Nothing for first time users, to learn how to actually begin with plugin, or at least nothing that can be easily found.
Brian Haas
3/17/2023

Amazing Plugin

Thank you very much for this amazing Plugin that serves us since years!
krishnasuwal
7/26/2023

really useful

speeds up development and has nice user-friendly UI. It was a nice experience working with this plugin.
thisbit
12/4/2023

Great piece of software

Plugins like these make wordpress worthwile

Screenshots

  1. Add new post type screen and tab.

    Add new post type screen and tab.

  2. Add new taxonomy screen and tab.

    Add new taxonomy screen and tab.

  3. Registered post types and taxonomies from CPTUI

    Registered post types and taxonomies from CPTUI

  4. Tools screen.

    Tools screen.

  5. Help/support screen.

    Help/support screen.

Changelog

1.18.2 – 2025-12-05

  • Fixed: Security issue around Get Code functionality.
  • Fixed: Potential security issue around post type descriptions.
  • Updated: various internationalization details.

1.18.1 – 2025-11-20

  • Fixed: Potential authorization access issues around content type modification.
  • Fixed: JS issue regarding warning user when changing content type slugs.
  • Updated: Revised “new tab” and ‘rel=”noopener”‘ link behavior and attributes.
  • Updated: Cleaned up CPTUI About screen.

1.18.0 – 2025-07-29

  • Added: “template_name” label support.
  • Fixed: Typo in “games” Dashicon classname.
  • Updated: CPTUI “ad” graphics. Added ThemeSwitcher Pro.
  • Updated: touched up some label usage for post type registration screen.

1.17.3 – 2025-04-21

  • Fixed: PHP notices around foreach loops in cptui_post_thumbnail_theme_support().
  • Fixed: PHP notices around empty variable values with get code section.
  • Fixed: PHP notices around false values with taxonomy listings with post type registration.
  • Updated: Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.8

1.17.2 – 2024-11-19

  • Fixed: PHP warnings around empty description variables from tools page.
  • Updated: Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.7

1.17.1 – 2024-06-27

  • Fixed: Missed re-showing of autolabel fill links for js enabled browsers.

1.17.0 – 2024-06-17

  • Added: “sidebars” as a reserved slug for post types.
  • Added: Blueprint for trying Custom Post Type UI on wordpress.org before installation.
  • Updated: Reworked javascript files to be more modular with the build process.

1.16.0 – 2024-04-08

  • Added: Added a wpml-config.xml file.
  • Updated: Added “search_terms” to disallowed taxonomy list.
  • Updated: Began converting our javascript away from jQuery dependency.
  • Updated: tested up to WP 6.5

1.15.1 – 2023-11-08

  • Fixed: Fixed up some Right-to-Left language styling issues.
  • Fixed: Fixing forgot to update about page and some PHP constants for CPTUI version.

1.15.0 – 2023-11-06

  • Added: Checkbox to indicate you intend to migrate a post type into CPTUI in event of matching slugs. Props @ramsesdelr
  • Added: “item_trashed” post type label support from WordPress 6.3
  • Updated: confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.4.
  • Updated: PHP8 compatibility.
  • Updated: Minimum WordPress version to version 6.3, minimum PHP version to 7.4.

1.14.0 – 2023-08-07

  • Added: “Scroll to top” links in CPTUI pages. Props @aslamatwebdevstudios
  • Added: Remembers toggled states for CPTUI settings panels. Props @aslamatwebdevstudios and @ramsesdelr
  • Updated: Notes about slugs for both post types and taxonomies.
  • Updated: Support/FAQ section with more accurate links.
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