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Custom Post Type UI
It builds the structure and leaves the styling to your templates.
Healthy
90/100
This tool handles registration perfectly but leaves the actual display to your templates.
Active installs
~1.5 million
our estimate · wp.org shows 1.0M+
Rating
4.6★
275 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-1%
Holding steady
4,184 → 4,153 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · -1% in the last year
4,184/day a year ago→4,153/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCustom Post Type UI is a long-standing, well-regarded plugin for registering custom post types and taxonomies without writing code, though it requires users to handle their own display/templating logic, which frustrates less technical users.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use, even for those new to custom post types×5
- +Eliminates the need to write PHP to register post types and taxonomies×3
- +Reliable and consistently maintained over many years×4
- +Fast and helpful support×3
- +Allows exporting CPT code to functions.php, enabling use without keeping the plugin active
- +Avoids vendor lock-in compared to bundling CPT management inside other plugins like ACF
Common complaints
- −Does not handle displaying custom post type content on the front end — users must implement their own templates or use additional tools
- −Considered redundant by some users since ACF now includes built-in CPT and taxonomy management with a more modern UI
- −One user reported the plugin unexpectedly created an additional plugin without consent, and found the developer unhelpful and rude when raising the issue
- −General reports of errors and unreliable behaviour from at least one user
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.64★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 1%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 275 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-21★★★★★Surprisingly easypitifulglance
- 2026-04-27★★★★★useful pluginucero
- 2026-03-10★★★★★Simple & Usefulaniya0
- 2026-01-05★★★★★Essential tool! Now perfectly translated into PersianAfshari
- 2025-11-07★★★★★No-nonsense tool to manage CPTs and Taxonomiessaksaksak
- 2025-10-23★★★★★Really really really badantoine44
- 2025-02-13★★★★★Love this Plugin!crafting4websites
- 2024-05-13★★★★★Reliable Pluginhohumtiddleypom
- 2024-05-10★★★★★Easy to useanmomosae
- 2024-05-06★★★★★Essential pluginsonofbruce
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
7,895
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
9,184
Prior 7-day baseline
4,978
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
106,045
Mean release-day peak (30d)
7,401
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-14.0%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.51
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
5★ share in analyzed sample
1%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.64 → 4.64★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered