PIKLIST – Easily Build Fields, Forms, Settings, Widgets and More.

Piklist is the most powerful framework available for WordPress.

Easy for beginners… built for developers. Easily Build Fields, Forms, Settings, Widgets and More.

Piklist 2.0 is coming soon with full Gutenberg support. Until then, please use the Classic Editor plugin when using WordPress 5.0+.

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Piklist is a rapid development framework for WordPress that will let you concentrate on the main focus of your plugin or theme, and let Piklist handle everything else.

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Piklist makes it easy to:

• Build Fields for Settings page, Widgets, Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies and User Profiles with minimal code.
• Conditionally show fields (or their values), based on Post Status and/or User Role.
• Define Custom Post Statuses
• Relate Post-to-Posts.
• and more…

LEARN MORE

• Piklist User Guide

Customize everything in WordPress

• Post Types
• Taxonomies
• User Profiles
• Media
• Settings
• Admin Pages
• Widgets
• Dashboard
• Help Tabs
• Admin Notices
• Pointers

Better Custom Post Types

• Powerful Custom Post Types
• Relate Custom Post Types to each other.
• Add your own post statuses.

Codeless Meta Boxes

• Group fields in a meta box, by placing them all in one file.
• Add a comment block at the top of your file to define the meta box attributes
• Hide/Show based on the post status.
• Hide/Show based on the users capability.
• Sort meta boxes with granular control.
• Lock the box, so users cannot move or hide them.
• Add meta box to a specific Page/Post ID.

Simple Widgets

• Create one file for your Widget settings, and one for your output… all done!

Powerful Fields

• ANY field or groups of fields can be a repeater.
• Validate and Sanitize any field.

Lots of field types (and more coming soon!)

• text
• textarea
• checkbox
• radio
• select
• post editor
• file upload
• image upload
• hidden
• html
• date chooser
• color picker
• add more
• HTML5

Choose a content type for your field (You can even mix-n-match on one form)

• post
• post_meta
• comment
• comment_meta
• term
• term_meta
• user
• user_meta
• media
• media_meta

Mix Field and Content types (i.e. Taxonomies as radio buttons)

• Hide/Show based on another form field.
• Hide/Show based on the post status.
• Hide/Show based on the users capability.
• Hide form fields, and just show field values

Getting Started with Piklist is Easy.

Read our getting started tutorial.