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Edit Custom Fields

by Jay

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Description

This plugin offers a simple interface to edit or delete any Custom Field names/keys you may have created in the post/page editor.

Deleting a Custom Field also deletes the associated content, so use with caution!

This is not meant to be a powerful plugin in the vein of Advanced Custom Fields.

Only users with role Editor and above have access to this plugin.

  1. Upload edit-custom-fields.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Still works on WordPress 6.8.1

By cXD4931 (xbor17) on May 30, 2025

Installed and run on a WordPress working on version 6.8.1 with Php version 8.2 without major issues. The plugin moved fast and did the job in seconds. Highly recommended!

Good and easy

By phoenix36 on January 14, 2025

Very good and easy to use. Does what it should. Very nice, neatly under Tools menu!

Does the job wonderfully!

By Manou Allou (manouallou) on April 30, 2024

Although the plugin hasn't been tested with the current WordPress release, it did the job for me. It cleaned up several unused CPT orphans and cleared them from my website's database without causing any problems.

Hope the developer will test and update the plugin with the current version of WordPress so it feels a bit more secure to use.

only CLEARS fields but does not DELETE them, as the description make you believe

By volkerforster on October 15, 2023

Not impressed. Description says "This plugin offers a simple interface to edit or delete any Custom Field names/keys you may have created in the post/page editor. Deleting a Custom Field also deletes the associated content, so use with caution!"
It only deleted the CONTENT from a custom field, but it definitely does NOT delete the field.
I have so much meta-garbage collected over the years, and there is obviously no way to clean this mess up.

I find this plugin useful

By Alex 六十 Karpov (justsmilepeople) on February 2, 2023

Time saver! Thank you

Time Saver Plugin

By Hitesh Bhasin (Marketing91) on June 23, 2021

Was thinking of deleting the custom fields one by one on a large site. Could delete them all in one go because of this plugin. Time Saver!

Saved hours of BS !!!

By THE CANDY TRAIL (the candy trail ...) on May 14, 2021

As others have said - does the job well for cleaning out junk from past themes + plug-ins. Deserves the praise. To have manually 'cleaned' 100s of posts from years of WP remodeling would have pushed me over the edge. THANK YOU for this plug-in!

Excellent

By Coequipier.com (mouveo) on February 12, 2021

It does exactly what you can expect! Thank you!

Awesome!

By Bettylex (bettylex) on January 8, 2021

I can't believe this plugin doesn't have a thousand 5-star reviews! If you've been struggling forever with deleting ACF old DB entries, this is the solution you've been looking for. Effective, light and super easy to use. Thank you so much for it!

Great Job

By athinaok on December 4, 2020

Great Job Thank you!

0.1.10

  • Update text domain

0.1.9

  • More sanitiziation and hardening

0.1.8

  • Use wp_verify_nonce to protect against CSRF
  • Use sprintf for translations.

0.1.7

  • Use $wpdb->prepare

0.1.6

  • Add nonce checks

0.1.4

  • Fixed regression from 0.1.2 onward that broke plugin when custom field key was
    used in multiple posts.

0.1.3

  • Removed broken function that broke 0.1.2
  • Fixed some Markdown formatting errors in readme.

0.1.2

  • DUH: Allowed for db table prefixes other than wp_ :self-flagellates:
  • Embarrasing typo on “Confirm Custom Field Deleteion” screen :S
  • Querying by ID now rather than key so that keys with spaces work smh

0.1.1

Fixed the stable tag in the readme.txt file.

0.1

Initial release.

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