76
Smart Custom Fields
A lightweight repeater powerhouse with some heavy security baggage.
HealthyGrowing
76/100
The free repeater field is a major draw despite serious security concerns and infrequent updates.
Active installs
~55,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
4.9★
20 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+85%
Growing fast
64 → 118 installs/day
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
Growing fast · +85% in the last year
64/day a year ago→118/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySmart Custom Fields is regarded as a simple, easy-to-use custom fields plugin with a standout free repeater field feature, but it carries a known unpatched security vulnerability and at least one reported conflict with other plugins.
What people like
- +Simple and easy to use×3
- +Repeater/repeated field feature available for free, unlike competing plugins where it is paid×2
- +Intuitive API with no reported bugs in general use
Common complaints
- −Known critical security vulnerability that had not been patched at time of review
- −Plugin not updated for an extended period, raising maintenance concerns
- −Reported conflict with the MailPoet newsletter plugin
Review trustMostly organic
- 5.00★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 20%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-03-112025-11-062026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 20 total
Latest reviews · 20 analyzed
- 2025-09-29★★★★★very simple and greattommynguyen0710
- 2025-02-12★★★★★Great simple product but needs updatejkaki1-shot
- 2022-09-25★★★★★imagexforeal1-shot
- 2018-11-18★★★★★HelpfulZhandos Ulan
- 2018-07-23★★★★★Very nice plugin!Robssanches
- 2018-04-12★★★★★Great plugin!Ko Takagi
- 2017-11-16★★★★★nice pluginsmnt324
- 2017-06-28★★★★★シンプルで使いやすいですyousan
- 2017-06-09★★★★★Nice groupingYAT
- 2017-05-20★★★★★シンプルで必要十分kengo shimoyama
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.
126
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
125
Prior 7-day baseline
93
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
177
Mean release-day peak (30d)
165
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+0.8%
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.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.65
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
95%
5★ share in analyzed sample
20%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.90 → 5.00★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered