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Custom Post Type UI

by webdevstudios

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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 WordPress website — no
coding required.

Used by more than 1,000,000 active WordPress sites, CPTUI is the trusted
foundation for building structured content in WordPress. Whether you are
creating a portfolio, events calendar, product catalog, staff directory, or
any other custom content type, CPTUI gives you the tools to define it quickly
and correctly.

Ready to go further? Meet CPT UI Pro

CPTUI handles registration. CPT UI Pro handles everything else.

CPT UI Pro
is the official premium add-on built by the same WebDevStudios team that
created and maintains this plugin. It extends CPTUI into a complete content
operations stack — front-end display blocks, admin list table controls,
multisite management, and a full developer API.

Front-end display tools

  • Ten built-in layout options: Default, List, Single Post Type, Taxonomy
    List, Post Slider, Post Cards, Featured Plus, Grid, and Grid With Overlay
  • Taxonomy Filter Blocks so visitors can filter content by term
  • Single Post Block Templates to control individual post output
  • Shortcode Builder for reusable, configurable display output

Admin list table management

  • Column Builder with drag-and-drop column control for any post type
  • Advanced Filters by taxonomy, meta field, date, author, and status
  • Screen Options Panel for per-user admin table visibility

Multisite management

  • Network-level CPT registration from one central location
  • Push config to subsites to keep site structures consistent
  • Per-site inheritance control for flexible network governance

Developer-focused workflow

  • cptui_pro_post_types filter to merge, modify, or replace registrations
  • Auto-discovery hooks so themes and plugins can register CPTs without
    manual setup
  • Programmatic registration API for JSON-driven or CI-driven workflows
  • Extended REST API support on top of core CPTUI REST capabilities

Get CPT UI Pro at Pluginize.com

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.

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 the 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.

  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.

Where is the user documentation?

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

I registered my post types — how do I display them on the front end?

The free CPTUI plugin handles registration. To display your custom content
with block editor layouts, filters, and templates, check out
CPT UI Pro.

Does CPT UI Pro require this free plugin?

No. CPT UI Pro does not require Custom Post Type UI (free), but pairs great. Your existing post type and taxonomy content integrates automatically
— no migration needed.

Will the free plugin continue to be maintained?

Absolutely. Custom Post Type UI will always be free and actively maintained.
CPT UI Pro is an optional add-on for users who want to go further.

Does CPT UI Pro work with multisite?

Yes. CPT UI Pro includes dedicated multisite support with network-level
registration, config push to subsites, and per-site inheritance controls.

useful plugin

By ucero on April 27, 2026

If you know what to do with this plugin, then it can become useful. Thank you.

Simple & Useful

By aniya0 on March 10, 2026

Used it to create custom post types on my site. Setup was quick & everything worked as expected. Makes managing CPTs much easier without coding. Really helpful plugin for WP users. Tnkz devs

Essential tool! Now perfectly translated into Persian

By Afshari (saeidafshari) on January 5, 2026

CPT UI is the standard for managing post types in WordPress. It allows developers to extend WordPress capabilities without writing complex code.

To help the Persian community, I have translated 100% of the plugin and Readme.
As the PTE for this locale, I focused on using standard WordPress terminology (e.g., correct translation for "Slug", "Taxonomy", "Hierarchical") to ensure the interface is intuitive for Iranian developers.

Thanks for this great plugin!

Best regards,
@saeidafshari

ترجمه فارسی این افزونه محبوب به صورت ۱۰۰٪ کامل شد. تلاش کردم در ترجمه اصطلاحات فنی مثل (نامک، طبقه‌بندی و…) از استانداردهای رسمی وردپرس استفاده کنم تا رابط کاربری برای همکاران عزیز روان و قابل‌فهم باشد.

No-nonsense tool to manage CPTs and Taxonomies

By saksaksak on November 7, 2025

For the development of a new site, I have been using a combination of CPT UI and ACF. I have specifically chosen CPT UI for the management of Custom Post Types and Taxonomies whilst using ACF for the fields. I have tried out the ACF CPT and Taxonomy functionality and I like the user interface (to see a list of the created staff in a simple way etc) of ACF more, but I chose CPT UI because it is proven with years and it is portable. I did not want to get locked into ACF for everyhing.

Really really really bad

By antoine44 on October 22, 2025

Bad, really bad, really bad, WordPress is used by millions of people who have no idea how to program, but with this plugin you have to edit PHP… no, no, useless garbage. You can't display the types of content you've created, you can't do anything but act like an idiot for a while, until you get tired and delete it.

Love this Plugin!

By crafting4websites on February 13, 2025

The Custom Post Type UI plugin is a wonderful asset to the web builders wishing to add custom post types to their websites! I highly recommend!

Reliable Plugin

By hohumtiddleypom on May 13, 2024

The Custom Post Type UI plugin is reliable and is constantly updated. The User Interface means I do not have to write PHP everytime I need to edit a Post Type.

Easy to use

By anmomosae on May 10, 2024

I use this plugin whenever I need to register custom post types or custom taxonomies. It is very easy to use.

Essential plugin

By sonofbruce on May 6, 2024

Couldn't live without it.

Useless after ACF update

By Pavel Leontiev (vertopolkalf) on March 7, 2024

Advanced Custom Fields do the same better and have much prettier design

1.19.2 – 2026-05-07

  • Fixed: JS error with changed icon picker on settings pages without an icon picker.
  • Updated: CPTUI-Extended promotion has been changed to CPTUI-Pro new addon.

1.19.1 – 2026-05-04

  • Fixed: Escaped output on get code tab when no content types registered.
  • Fixed: Force lowercase slugs on server side during save.
  • Updated: Extra WPML support for labels.
  • Updated: Pro product upsells.

1.19.0 – 2026-04-23

  • Added: Support for “Filter by category” and “Filter by date” labels. Thanks aloMalbarez.
  • Fixed: PHP notices from upsell notification display check.
  • Updated: Various capitalization for CPTUI submenu labels.
  • Updated: developer.wordpress.org URLs that had redirects.
  • Updated: jQuery-less Dashicon picker.

1.18.3 – 2026-01-08

  • Fixed: Remove double escaping in tools section for some output.
  • Added: Dismissable upsell notifications for CPTUI Pro.

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 admin ad graphics. Added ThemeSwitcher Pro.
  • Updated: Touched up some label usage for post type registration screen.
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