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Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK

By madalin.ungureanu

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Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK Review - In-Depth Analysis

Create custom fields, post types, and taxonomies easily without coding. Ideal for WordPress users.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.8/10

User Rating

4.7/5 (based on 97+ reviews)

Active Installations

10,000+

Update Frequency

Excellent It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

The WordPress Creation Kit consists of three tools that can help you create and maintain custom post types, custom taxonomies, and custom fields and metaboxes for your posts, pages, or custom post types.

The WCK Custom Fields Creator offers an interface for setting up custom meta boxes with various field types for your posts. You can show custom fields using code or with the Swift Templates module.

The WCK Custom Post Type Creator simplifies the process of creating custom post types by providing an interface for most of the arguments of the register_post_type function.

The WCK Taxonomy Creator allows you to easily create and edit custom taxonomies for WordPress without any programming knowledge.

With support for various custom field types, including WYSIWYG editors and file uploads, you can create custom fields for any post type. The plugin also supports Repeater Fields and Repeater Groups, allowing for a flexible data structure.

The PRO version offers additional features like Swift Templates for front-end template building, front-end posting capabilities, and more field types.

Comparing to Alternatives

Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK offers a versatile approach to managing custom content types and fields in WordPress, standing out with its combined features and frontend capabilities.

Top alternatives

Strengths

Combines custom post types, custom fields, and frontend constructor in one plugin.
Offers frontend posting and swift templates for custom CPT archives and single posts.
User-friendly interface with flexibility for unique website building.
Supports repeater fields and upload fields even in free version.

Weaknesses

Database cleanup after deleting meta boxes is incomplete, requiring manual intervention.
Lacks default ordering for custom meta boxes, which can affect usability.
Gallery field type is missing, making image management less convenient.
Some users report compatibility issues with certain hosting environments like AWS.

User Sentiment Analysis

User feedback highlights both the plugin's strengths in flexibility and ease of use, as well as areas needing improvement.

Positive highlights

'Simple and versatile with handy features like frontend posting' – oichtental
'Works like a charm' – gokuss7
'Combines three major features in one plugin' – heavylogic
'Allows building unique websites with little effort' – oichtental

Common complaints

Plugin can leave residual data in the database after deleting fields – Leonardo Cabral
Missing default ordering for meta boxes – heavylogic
No dedicated gallery field type, making image uploads cumbersome – heavylogic
Issues on specific hosting setups like AWS – offgood

Weaknesses

Requires manual database cleanup after field deletion.
Lacks some user experience enhancements like default meta box order.
Gallery management is not streamlined.
Compatibility issues reported on some hosting platforms.

Who Should Use This?

Best for

Developers and site builders who want an all-in-one solution for custom post types, custom fields, and frontend content creation with moderate technical skills.

Not ideal for

Users seeking a plugin with seamless database cleanup, advanced media management, or those on hosting environments where compatibility issues have been reported.

Pricing & Value

Free version includes

The free version includes the ability to create custom post types, custom fields including repeater and upload fields, and basic frontend posting capabilities.

Pro version

The Pro version adds advanced frontend constructor features, enhanced field types, and additional customization options to extend the plugin's functionality.

Final Verdict

Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK is a powerful and versatile plugin that combines essential features for managing custom content in WordPress, making it a strong choice for developers needing flexibility and frontend capabilities.

However, users should be aware of some limitations, including manual database cleanup requirements and missing features like default meta box ordering and a dedicated gallery field, which may affect workflow and usability for some.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK plugin.

Custom Field

Custom Post Type

Custom Fields

Screenshots

FAQ

Let’s consider we have a meta box with the following arguments:
– Meta name: books
– Post Type: post
And we also have two fields defined:
– A text custom field with the Field Title: Book name
– And another text custom field with the Field Title: Author name

You will notice that slugs will automatically be created for the two text fields. For ‘Book name’ the slug will be ‘book-name’ and for ‘Author name’ the slug will be ‘author-name’

Let’s see what the code for displaying the meta box values in single.php of your theme would be:

<?php $books = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'books', true );  foreach( $books as $book){     echo $book['book-name'] . '<br/>';     echo $book['author-name'] . '<br/>'; }?>

So as you can see the Meta Name ‘books’ is used as the $key parameter of the function get_post_meta() and the slugs of the text fields are used as keys for the resulting array. Basically CFC stores the entries as custom fields in a multidimensional array. In our case the array would be:

<?php array( array( "book-name" => "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", "author-name" => "Douglas Adams" ),  array( "book-name" => "Ender's Game", "author-name" => "Orson Scott Card" ) );?>

This is true even for single entries.

You can create new queries to display posts from a specific post type. This is done via the ‘post_type’ parameter to a WP_Query.

Example:

<?php $args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'posts_per_page' => 10 ); $loop = new WP_Query( $args ); while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();     the_title();     echo '<div class="entry-content">';     the_content();     echo '</div>'; endwhile;?>

This simply loops through the latest 10 product posts and displays the title and content of them.

If you want to have a custom list in your theme, then you can pass the taxonomy name into the the_terms() function in the Loop, like so:

<?php the_terms( $post->ID, 'people', 'People: ', ', ', ' ' ); ?>

That displays the list of People attached to each post.

Creating a taxonomy generally automatically creates a special query variable using WP_Query class, which we can use to retrieve posts based on. For example, to pull a list of posts that have ‘Bob’ as a ‘person’ taxomony in them, we will use:

<?php $query = new WP_Query( array( 'person' => 'bob' ) ); ?>

Contributors and developers

“Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

madalin.ungureanu

Pro version Free Version

WPS

6.8

Average

Pro version

Ratings

4.7 out of 5 | 97

Version

2.3.8

Last updated

10 months ago

Active installations

10,000+

WordPress version

6.8.5 or higher

PHP version

or higher

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Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK Review - In-Depth Analysis

Performance Overview

What It Does

Comparing to Alternatives

User Sentiment Analysis

Who Should Use This?

Pricing & Value

Final Verdict

Other Notable Features

Screenshots

FAQ

Contributors and developers

Ratings

Reviews (97)

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Contributors & Developers

Interested in development?

Changelog

Security Status

Secure

No Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Known Vulnerabilities (1)

WPS

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