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Advanced Post Manager
Turbo charge your posts admin for any custom post type with sortable filters and columns, and auto-registration of metaboxes.
The facts
- Rating
- 3.5★ from 11
- Active installs
- 4k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 26 Aug 2025
- Added
- Sep 2011
- Requires WP
- 6.6
- Tested up to
- WP 6.8.8
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Downloads
- 149,430
Our analysis
AI-assistedAdvanced Post Manager is a WordPress plugin designed for developers looking to enhance custom post type listings with additional features. It provides an intuitive interface for adding complex filter sets, as well as a drag-and-drop system for arranging columns in post listings. The plugin also automatically generates metaboxes for metadata entry and allows sorting by post metadata.
This plugin is suitable for developers who need to manage and display custom post types effectively, making it easier to filter and organise content on their WordPress sites.
Best for: Developers managing custom post types on WordPress sites.
What it does well
- ✓Intuitive interface for adding filter sets
- ✓Drag-and-drop column arrangement
- ✓Automatic generation of metaboxes for metadata
- ✓Supports sorting by post metadata
- ✓Compatible with custom post types
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on specific features
- •No direct support for non-developers
Verdict
Advanced Post Manager offers useful tools for developers, but may not cater to those unfamiliar with coding or custom post types.
From the developer
Nexcess's own description of Advanced Post Manager, lightly tidied.
This is a tool for developers who want to turbo-charge their custom post type listings with metadata, taxonomies, and more. An intuitive interface for adding (and saving) complex filtersets is provided, along with a drag-and-drop interface for choosing and ordering columns to be displayed. Metaboxes are also automatically generated for all your metadata-entry needs.
- Add columns to the post listing view
- Filter post listings by custom criteria
- Easily add metaboxes to custom post types
- Automatically add registered taxonomies to post listings
- Sort by post metadata
See docs/documentation.html in the plugin directory for full documentation.
The team at The Events Calendar stands by our work and offers light support every Wednesday to the community via the WordPress.org support forums. Feel free to ask a question if you’re having a problem with implementation or if you find bugs.
Submitting patches
If you’ve identified a bug and want to submit a patch, we’d welcome it at our GitHub page for Advanced Post Manager. Simply cue up your proposed patch as a pull request, and we’ll review as part of our monthly release cycle and merge into the codebase if appropriate from there. (If a pull request is rejected, we’ll do our best to tell you why). Users whose pull requests are accepted will receive credit in the plugin’s changelog. For more information, check out the readme at our GitHub page. Happy coding!
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