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Essential Content Types

Essential Content Types

Content Management Custom Fields & Content Modeling

Essential Content Types is a WordPress plugin for Custom Fields & Content Modeling. It ranks #26 of 209 in that group by active installs and was last updated 5 months ago.

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Slug essential-content-types

20K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
3.7 Rating out of 5 From 3 ratings
41 Releases Since 20 April 2017
Jun 2026 Last release 5 months ago

Maintenance check

Is Essential Content Types still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

  • Updated recently. The last release was 5 months ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 7.0.8, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Standing

More installed than 97.1% of the directory

Ahead of 46,331 of the 47,729 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

97.1% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
46,331 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
1,397 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
2.6
Requires WordPress
5.9
Tested up to
7.0.8
Requires PHP
7.4
Added to the directory
20 April 2017
Last updated
16 June 2026
Contributors
6
Author
Catch Themes

Its own tags

  • content types
  • custom content types
  • custom post types
  • post types
  • taxonomy

Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.

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