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meta plugins
247 plugins in the directory carry the meta tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
247
plugins
3,446,150+
combined reach
47
released in 90 days
70%
quiet 18 months+
1
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Aug 2026 | Image Meta | 10+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) ACF helps customize WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields. Proudly powering over 2 million sites, WordPress developers love ACF. | 2,000,000+ | 4.5★ | 10 days ago |
| Meta for WooCommerce Reach more customers and drive sales on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp with the official Meta for WooCommerce plugin. | 400,000+ | 2.1★ | 1 month ago |
| Meta pixel for WordPress Grow your business with Meta for WordPress! | 400,000+ | 2.7★ | 1 month ago |
| Advanced Custom Fields: Extended All-in-one enhancement suite that improves WordPress & Advanced Custom Fields. | 100,000+ | 4.8★ | 11 days ago |
| SEO SIMPLE PACK This is a very simple SEO plugin. You can easily set and customize meta tags and OGP tags for each page. | 100,000+ | 4.6★ | 4 months ago |
| Secure Custom Fields Secure Custom Fields boosts content management with custom fields and options. It deactivates Advanced Custom Fields to prevent duplicate code errors. | 90,000+ | 4.8★ | 17 days ago |
| Metricool – Social media and site statistics Site metrics and social media analytics for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, X Twitter. The single best tool for Social Media Managers! | 80,000+ | 4.5★ | 12 days ago |
| Meta Tag Manager Easily add and manage custom meta tags to various parts of your site or on individual posts, such as Yahoo and Google verification tags. | 70,000+ | 4.8★ | 3 months ago |
| Smart Custom Fields Smart Custom Fields is a simple plugin for managing custom fields. | 50,000+ | 4.9★ | 2 months ago |
| Custom Field Template The Custom Field Template plugin extends the functionality of custom fields. | 30,000+ | 4.0★ | 26 days ago |
| Custom Block Builder – Lazy Blocks Easily create custom blocks and custom meta fields for Gutenberg without hard coding. | 20,000+ | 4.9★ | 6 days ago |
| Simple SEO Allows the modification of META titles, descriptions and keywords for all pages and posts. Also allows for default setting for of META title, descript … | 10,000+ | 4.7★ | 1 month ago |
| G Meta Keywords G Meta Keywords (GMK) is a simple but useful WordPress add-on that allows you to easily add the keyword insertion field removed from many Search Engin … | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 7 years ago · quiet |
| Head Meta Data Adds a custom set of <meta> tags to the <head> section of all posts & pages. | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 27 days ago |
| Meta Generator and Version Info Remover This plugin will remove the version info appended to enqueued style and script urls along with Meta Generator in the head section and in RSS feeds. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 11 months ago |
| Simple Taxonomy Ordering Quickly and easily reorder taxonomy terms with an easy to use and intuitive drag and drop interface. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP REST API Controller Enable a UI to toggle visibility and customize properties in WP REST API requests. | 8,000+ | 4.3★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Custom Meta Widget Clone of the standard Meta widget plus options to hide log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress.org/custom links. | 7,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| REST API Meta Support Stores meta data (i.e plugin settings) from the meta field of a WP REST API posts or pages POST creation call in the created page or post meta data. | 6,000+ | 5.0★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| NS Featured Posts A plugin for making posts, pages, or custom post types featured. Users can enable/disable Featured flags for selected post types. | 4,000+ | 4.8★ | 4 days ago |
| Login-Logout Widget with login, logout, admin and register links. Replacement of the default Meta widget. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| FV Simpler SEO Simple and effective SEO. Non-invasive, elegant. Ideal for client facing projects. | 2,000+ | 4.6★ | 9 days ago |
| mypace Custom Meta Robots Description: This plugin allows you to edit the meta robots tag at every singular post(posts, pages, custom post types). This is a very simple plugin. | 2,000+ | — | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Export Users With Meta Export Users to CSV file (with their meta data). | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| wp_head() cleaner Remove unused tags from wp_head() output. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 24 days ago |
| WP Old Post Date Remover Removes the date stamp from older posts (you choose how old), while leaving the date stamp on newer posts. Ideal for blogs with evergreen content. | 2,000+ | 4.5★ | 7 years ago · quiet |
| WP Term Images Images for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms | 2,000+ | 4.6★ | 5 months ago |
| Get Custom Field Values Use widgets, shortcodes, and/or template tags to easily retrieve and display custom field values for posts or pages. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Post Meta Data Manager View, modify, search, and delete post meta, user meta, and taxonomy meta right from your WordPress edit screens—all without ever touching the database … | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 5 months ago |
| Remove Meta Generators Remove all meta generator tags for all plugins. No settings necessary! Install and activate. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| Custom Meta This plugin adds a widget that is like the default Meta widget, but customizable. (You can specify what links to show). | 700+ | 5.0★ | 17 years ago · quiet |
| Auto SEO META keywords (META tags keywords) optimization + WooCommerce META TAGS for SEO allows you to display custom META Keywords strategically (based on Yoast / Rank Math in some cases) to boost your ranking on search … | 700+ | 3.0★ | 1 month ago |
| Noindex Attachment Pages Add META ROBOTS NOINDEX to Attachment Pages in WordPress for better SEO | 700+ | 5.0★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Page Meta Adds the ability to override the page meta title and add in meta descriptions and keywords for pages. | 700+ | 3.3★ | 13 years ago · quiet |
| Sidebar Login Widget I Appreciate if you please give reviews and any suggestions after using this plugin. If you like this plugin you can donate or contribute by clicking … | 700+ | 4.8★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| WP Term Colors Pretty colors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms | 700+ | 4.2★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Ultimate Fields Easy and powerful custom fields management: Post Meta, Options Pages, Repeaters and many field types! | 500+ | 5.0★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| User Meta Display Ajax powered admin page to show, edit, add, and remove user meta. Choose dropdown list by User Login, ID, or Display Name. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Disable Browser Telephone Format Detection Adds a meta tag to your site head which prevents certain browsers from auto detecting phone numbers and adding links and styling to them. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 6 months ago |
| Display Post Metadata It is a useful plugin to display the metadata information and custom fields of posts and pages or custom post type. You can either display date, autho … | 400+ | 5.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Meta Description Adds a meta box to the edit posts/pages admin area for inputing an HTML meta description. | 400+ | 3.7★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Meta Embeds Embed Threads, Instagram, and Facebook content in your WordPress site. Paste a URL and get a rich embed — no access tokens required. | 400+ | — | 3 months ago |
| Plugin Notes Allows you to add notes to plugins. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Prostudio Auto Meta Images Автоматическое добавление правильных Alt и Title для изображений при использовании загрузчика WordPress. | 300+ | 4.0★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| 1ON1 URL REDIRECTS Easily redirect pages, posts and tags or custom post types to another page or post or external URL by specifying the redirect URL. | 200+ | — | 5 months ago |
| Advanced Term Images Easily add featured images to your categories, tags, and custom taxonomy terms. Supports all taxonomies! | 200+ | — | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Cleanup Duplicate Meta Cleanup Duplicate Meta gives you a tool to check for and delete duplicate Post and/or User Meta entries in the database tables. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Disable WP Robots Disables the robots meta tag added by WordPress. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| Media Meta & Force Regenerate Displays the metadata information in the Media Library. Regenerates the metadata and thumbnails even if they exist. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| Meta Content A meta box which helps us to add content or scripts to any part of the website, on each individual post/page. Easy to Implement with Shortcode. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 10 months ago |
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