Native module · Custom Fields
SGEN custom fields: a real engine, built in.
Build structured content with repeaters, nested groups, media pickers, and rich text, native: a 15-type field-group builder that binds one schema to your Pages, Blog, Events, and Custom Objects, with a shortcode for every field. Runs in your dashboard, nothing to install, license, or update.
A visual split-view builder drives it: field rows with Label, Name, and Type, group-level Locations and Status, and a Tips panel on the right. It is one of 23 native modules, in the box on every plan.
An ACF-class field engine
Five jobs, one builder. One admin.
The Custom Fields module owns five jobs in one admin: define the field group in a visual builder, pick from 15 typed fields, bind it to four content types, render it with a shortcode, and manage it with a full lifecycle. One module on every plan, no license to attach the fields and no fork risk.
A visual field-group builder
Add field rows with a Label, a Name, and a Type, reorder and remove them, set the group's Locations and Status, and save. A real builder, not a single bare text box.
Fifteen typed fields
From text and number to a Repeatable repeater and a nested Group, plus Image and Attachment media pickers and a rich-text HTML editor. The palette goes well past one generic box.
Bind one schema to four types
A field group attaches to Pages, Blog, Events, and your Custom Objects through Location checkboxes, so the same structured model powers many content types at once.
A shortcode per field
Every field generates a front-end shortcode, so the data an author enters drops into pages and templates with no code to write.
Full lifecycle management
Field groups are first-class content: Published, Draft, and Trash with live counts, search, and bulk publish, draft, trash, and restore. A mature module, not a beta.
Per-field options
Each field carries Required, Default value, Placeholder, Description, and Choices (newline value:label for Select, Checkbox, and Radio). The depth a generic line hides.
The field-type palette
Fifteen field types. Five of them are the premium tier.
The palette goes well past text and number. Build a field group from 15 typed fields, set each one's Label, Name, and Type, and lay the group out with Section Title and Section Info helpers between the inputs.
Five of the 15 are the depth a generic add-a-field line hides: a rich-text HTML editor, an Image picker, an Attachment picker, a nested Group, and a Repeatable repeater. That premium tier is native here, in the box on every plan, with no upgrade or extension to buy.
The five highlighted chips are the headline capabilities a thin "custom fields" toggle leaves out. They render as real author widgets on the edit form, not as another plain text box.
The types a generic line hides
Repeaters, nested groups, and native media pickers. In the box.
Repeat a sub-field set as many times as the content needs, nest a group of fields inside a group, pick images or files straight from the native Media library with inline upload and preview, and edit long-form body copy in a rich-text HTML editor. This is the premium tier, native here on every plan with no upgrade or extension to buy, and you present it with the SG Builder you already use.
Bind once, render everywhere
One field group. Pages, Blog, Events, and your Custom Objects.
A field group binds to four content types through Location checkboxes, so one structured data model powers many content types instead of being a per-page afterthought. The same schema that adds a price and a gallery to a listing can add prep time and servings to a recipe. Bind it to your Custom Objects, the native companion content-type engine, and the fields render on that type's edit form too.
Check the Location boxes the UI shows, Page, Blog, Events, and Custom Objects, and the group's fields appear on every item of those content types. One schema, four content types, no duplication.
A mature, managed module
Field groups are first-class content. Published, Draft, Trash.
Field groups are managed like any other content: a status-tabbed list with live counts, search, bulk publish, draft, trash, and permanent-delete, and one-click row Trash and Restore. A real module with a full admin, not a settings toggle hidden in a menu.
Columns are exactly Title, # of Fields, Author, and Created At. Status tabs are All Fields, Published, Draft, and Trash. Restored rows return as Draft by design, ready for a deliberate re-publish.
In the box, not bolted on
The whole field engine, native. In the box.
SGEN ships this field engine as a native module on every plan, with repeaters and nested groups in the box rather than paywalled or extension-gated. Because the schema lives in the platform, there is no separate license, no update calendar, and no fork risk. That last point is not abstract: in October 2024 the ACF add-on was forcibly taken over and forked to "Secure Custom Fields," resolved only by a December 2024 court injunction. When the engine is native, your field groups cannot be forked out from under you.
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The platform behind the module
In the box on every plan.
15
field types in the native Custom Fields builder, repeaters and groups included
4
content types one field group binds to: Pages, Blog, Events, Custom Objects
23
native modules included on every plan
Questions
Frequently asked questions about Custom Fields
Is this the same as Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)? +
It fills the same role, typed field groups, repeaters, nested groups, media pickers, and rich text, but the implementation is native. There is nothing to install, license, or update, and no fork risk: the field-group schema lives in the platform itself rather than in a third-party add-on.
How many field types are there, and what are the advanced ones? +
Fifteen, including a Repeatable repeater that adds Item #1, Item #2 rows, a nested Group field, Image and Attachment media pickers, and a rich-text HTML editor. The rest are Text, Number, Telephone, URL, Select, Checkbox, Radio, Textarea, and the Section Title and Section Info layout helpers.
Which content types can a field group attach to? +
Pages, Blog, Events, and your Custom Objects, through Location checkboxes on the field group. One schema binds to four content types, so the same structured model powers many content types at once.
How does the data render on the front end? +
Every field generates a shortcode, so the data an author enters drops into pages and templates with no code to write. You present the authored data with the SG Builder you already use for your pages.
Which plan includes Custom Fields? +
Every plan. Custom Fields is one of the 23 native modules, and every plan is the whole platform; plans differ only by how many live sites you run. Paid plans start at $39/mo (billed annually; $47 monthly), and the free Sandbox runs the module on unlimited staging sites.
Is there anything Custom Fields does NOT do? +
It is a field-group and content-modeling engine, not a relational-database product. Input is validated and coerced server-side: the status value is checked against an allowlist, dangerous payloads are entity-encoded, and redirects are sanitized. Number-field min and max are a known minor validation gap, so treat number constraints as a convenience, not a strict guarantee. For full content types with their own admin and URLs, pair it with the Custom Objects module.
Included in your plan
A native field-group engine, in the box on every plan. From $39/mo.
Custom Fields is one of the 23 native modules included in every plan. Build a field group, attach it to four content types, and render it with a shortcode on the free Sandbox across unlimited staging sites before you pay anything.
From $39/mo, billed annually. $47 monthly. 2-week trial, cancel anytime. Every module included.