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Best Editor Customization plugins for WordPress

Categories Content Management

Plugins that restore, replace, configure, or otherwise alter the WordPress post editing experience.

Read from 131,125 plugin records - figures refreshed 5 hours ago

162 Plugins classified here Out of the plugins that have been through the classifier so far
12.4M Combined active installs Summed across the published bands, so read it as an order of magnitude
4.67 Average rating Across the 150 here that carry a rating at all

The plugins

Plugins in Editor Customization

Ranked by active installs; plugins in the same published band share a rank. Each page has a maintenance check and the alternatives.

#1

Classic Editor

classic-editor 8M installs · 4.9 stars
#2

Classic Widgets

classic-widgets 2M installs · 4.9 stars
#3

Advanced Editor Tools

tinymce-advanced 1M installs · 4.5 stars
#4

Disable Gutenberg

disable-gutenberg 500K installs · 5.0 stars
#5

Black Studio TinyMCE Widget

black-studio-tinymce-widget 200K installs · 4.8 stars
#6

AddQuicktag

addquicktag 100K installs · 4.7 stars
#7

HTML Editor Syntax Highlighter

html-editor-syntax-highlighter 60K installs · 4.4 stars
#8

Re-add text underline and justify

re-add-underline-justify 50K installs · 4.7 stars
#9

Revision Control

revision-control 40K installs · 4.4 stars
#9

WP Edit

wp-edit 40K installs · 4.0 stars
#11

Classic Editor +

classic-editor-addon 30K installs · 4.9 stars
#12

Classic Editor and Classic Widgets

classic-editor-and-classic-widgets 20K installs · 5.0 stars
#12

Radio Buttons for Taxonomies

radio-buttons-for-taxonomies 20K installs · 5.0 stars
#12

Re-Add Text Justify Button

re-add-text-justify-button 20K installs · 5.0 stars
#12

WP Editor

wp-editor 20K installs · 4.5 stars
#16

Adjust Admin Categories

adjust-admin-categories 10K installs · 5.0 stars
#16

Advanced TinyMCE Configuration

advanced-tinymce-configuration 10K installs · 4.8 stars
#16

Disable Embeds

disable-embeds 10K installs · 4.3 stars
#16

Parent Category Toggler

parent-category-toggler 10K installs · 4.8 stars
#16

Raw HTML

raw-html 10K installs · 4.3 stars
#16

Shortcake (Shortcode UI)

shortcode-ui 10K installs · 4.1 stars
#16

TinyMCE Clear Float

tinymce-clear-buttons 10K installs · 5.0 stars
#16

Title and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor)

title-and-nofollow-for-links 10K installs · 4.5 stars
#16

Visual Term Description Editor

visual-term-description-editor 10K installs · 5.0 stars
#25

No Gutenberg? – Choose Where to Use the Block Editor or the Classic Editor

no-gutenberg 9K installs · 5.0 stars
#25

Toggle wpautop

toggle-wpautop 9K installs · 4.9 stars
#25

WooCommerce Shortcodes

woocommerce-shortcodes 9K installs · 4.3 stars
#28

Category Editor

categorytinymce 8K installs · 4.5 stars
#28

PixCodes

pixcodes 8K installs · 4.0 stars
#28

TypePad emoji for TinyMCE

typepad-emoji-for-tinymce 8K installs · 4.5 stars
#31

Custom HTML Block Extension

custom-html-block-extension 7K installs · 5.0 stars
#31

Who Stole the Text Justify Button ?!

who-stole-the-text-justify-button 7K installs · 3.7 stars
#33

TCD Classic Editor

tcd-classic-editor 6K installs
#34

Category Checklist Tree

category-checklist-tree 5K installs · 5.0 stars
#34

Native Emoji

native-emoji 5K installs · 3.7 stars
#34

Press This

press-this 5K installs · 3.7 stars
#34

Proofreading

proofreading 5K installs · 4.0 stars
#34

Toolbar Publish Button

toolbar-publish-button 5K installs · 4.8 stars
#39

ACF Columns

acf-columns 4K installs · 4.5 stars
#39

Block Manager

block-manager 4K installs · 4.9 stars
#39

LTR RTL Admin content

ltrrtl-admin-content 4K installs · 4.7 stars
#39

Preserve Editor Scroll Position

preserve-editor-scroll-position 4K installs · 4.6 stars
#39

Rel Nofollow Checkbox

rel-nofollow-checkbox 4K installs · 4.5 stars
#39

WProofreader spell & grammar check plugin for WordPress

webspellchecker 4K installs · 3.7 stars
#45

ACF Repeater & Flexible Content Collapser

acf-repeater-flexible-content-collapser 3K installs · 5.0 stars
#45

Block Navigation

block-navigation 3K installs · 5.0 stars
#45

Disable Gutenberg Blocks – Block Manager

disable-gutenberg-blocks 3K installs · 4.4 stars
#45

Editor Full Width Gutenberg

editor-full-width 3K installs · 4.9 stars
#45

Insert Special Characters

insert-special-characters 3K installs · 4.9 stars
#45

Page Excerpt

page-excerpt 3K installs · 5.0 stars
#45

Preserved HTML Editor Markup Plus

preserved-html-editor-markup-plus 3K installs · 4.2 stars
#45

PublishPress Checklists: Pre-Publishing Approval Checklist – Validate Post Requirements

publishpress-checklists 3K installs · 5.0 stars
#45

Resizable Sidebar for the Gutenberg Block Editor

resizable-editor-sidebar 3K installs · 4.6 stars
#45

Restore Link Title Field

restore-link-title-field 3K installs · 5.0 stars
#45

Save with keyboard

save-with-keyboard 3K installs · 5.0 stars
#45

Select All Categories and Taxonomies, Change Checkbox to Radio Buttons

select-all-categories-and-taxonomies-change-checkbox-to-radio-buttons 3K installs · 4.3 stars
#45

Visual Editor Custom Buttons

visual-editor-custom-buttons 3K installs · 4.6 stars
#45

WP Emmet

wp-emmet 3K installs · 5.0 stars
#59

WP Admin Category Search

admin-category-search 2K installs · 4.6 stars
#59

Advanced Post Excerpt

advanced-post-excerpt 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#59

Advanced Classic Editor

best-editor 2K installs · 4.0 stars
#59

Categories in Hierarchical Order

categories-in-hierarchical-order 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#59

Clear Floats Button

clear-floats-button 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#59

Convert to Blocks

convert-to-blocks 2K installs · 4.7 stars
#59

Disable Gutenberg Autosave

disable-gutenberg-autosave 2K installs · 4.4 stars
#59

Disable Post Revision

disable-post-revision 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#59

Disable WPautop

disable-wpautop 2K installs · 4.2 stars
#59

Emoji Toolbar

emoji-toolbar 2K installs · 4.0 stars
#59

Enable Classic Editor & Widgets

enable-classic-editor 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#59

Footnotes Made Easy

footnotes-made-easy 2K installs · 4.6 stars
#59

FrontEdit – Live Frontend Block Editor

frontedit-live-block-editor 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#59

Paste As Plain Text By Default

paste-as-plain-text-by-default 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#59

TinyMCE Spellcheck

tinymce-spellcheck 2K installs · 3.8 stars
#59

WP-RTL

wp-rtl 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#59

WP Super Edit

wp-super-edit 2K installs · 3.7 stars
#59

WP-Yomigana

wp-yomigana 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

ACF Tooltip

acf-tooltip 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

Advanced WPLink

advanced-wplink 1K installs · 4.8 stars
#77

Always Edit In HTML

always-edit-in-html 1K installs · 4.4 stars
#77

Bring Back the Get Shortlink Button

bring-back-the-get-shortlink-button 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

Categories Metabox Enhanced

categories-metabox-enhanced 1K installs · 4.9 stars
#77

Contact Form 7 Syntax Highlighting

cf7-ace-syntax-highlighting 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

Change Author

change-author 1K installs · 4.0 stars
#77

Change Text Case

change-case-for-tinymce 1K installs · 4.8 stars
#77

Classic Visual Editor Options

classic-visual-editor-options 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

Classic Widgets with Block-based Widgets

classic-widgets-with-block-based-widgets 1K installs
#77

Cleanup HTML

clean-html 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

Cosmo Block Edit Mode for ACF

cosmo-block-edit-mode-for-acf 1K installs
#77

Custom Fields for Gutenberg

custom-fields-gutenberg 1K installs · 4.9 stars
#77

Customize Posts

customize-posts 1K installs · 4.7 stars
#77

Markdown Editor (Formerly Dark Mode)

dark-mode 1K installs · 3.3 stars
#77

Disable Block Editor FullScreen mode

disable-block-editor-fullscreen-mode 1K installs · 4.3 stars
#77

Disable Revisions

disable-revisions 1K installs
#77

Disable Visual Editor WYSIWYG

disable-visual-editor-wysiwyg 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

Editor Block Outline

editor-block-outline 1K installs · 4.9 stars
#77

Extend Link

extend-link 1K installs · 3.0 stars
#77

Floating Publish Button

floating-publish-button 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

f(x) Editor

fx-editor 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

WP Image Size Selection

image-size-selection 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

Just TinyMCE Custom Styles

just-tinymce-styles 1K installs · 4.8 stars
#77

Markup Markdown

markup-markdown 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

Noted!

noted 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

Paste as Plain Text

paste-as-plain-text 1K installs · 4.9 stars
#77

PRyC WP: TinyMCE more buttons

pryc-wp-tinymce-more-buttons 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

Require Post Category

require-post-category 1K installs · 4.9 stars
#77

Schedule Posts Calendar

schedule-posts-calendar 1K installs · 4.7 stars
#77

Seamless Sticky Custom Post Types

seamless-sticky-custom-post-types 1K installs · 4.7 stars
#77

Simple Content Templates for Blog Posts & Pages

simple-post-template 1K installs · 4.0 stars
#77

Super Emoji Plus+

super-emoji-plus 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

Three Column Screen Layout

three-column-screen-layout 1K installs · 3.8 stars
#77

TinyMCE Color Picker

tinymce-colorpicker 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

tinyWYM Editor

tinywym-editor 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#77

wpautop control

wpautop-control 1K installs · 4.7 stars
#77

WPHindi – Type in Hindi in WordPress

wphindi 1K installs · 4.7 stars
#115

Admin Sticky Sidebar

admin-sticky-sidebar 900 installs
#115

Unique Title Checker

unique-title-checker 900 installs · 5.0 stars
#117

Flexible Layout Preview Image for ACF

flexible-layout-preview-image-for-acf 800 installs · 5.0 stars
#118

Admin Page Notes

admin-page-notes 700 installs · 5.0 stars
#118

Disable Welcome Messages and Tips

disable-welcome-messages-and-tips 700 installs · 5.0 stars
#118

Empty P Tag

empty-p-tag 700 installs · 5.0 stars
#118

Keep Emoticons as Text

keep-emoticons-as-text 700 installs · 5.0 stars
#118

Term Description: Rich Text Editor (Powered by TinyMCE) for WooCommerce

rich-text-editor-tinymce-for-woocommerce 700 installs · 5.0 stars
#118

Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes

runthings-taxonomy-tags-to-checkboxes 700 installs · 5.0 stars
#124

Auto Block Recovery

auto-block-recovery 600 installs · 5.0 stars
#124

wp-Monalisa

wp-monalisa 600 installs · 4.8 stars
#126

Disable Gutenberg

auto-disable-editor 500 installs · 5.0 stars
#126

Search and Replace for Block Editor

search-replace-for-block-editor 500 installs · 4.0 stars
#128

Blank Footnotes

blank-footnotes 300 installs · 5.0 stars
#128

Block Data Attribute

block-data-attribute 300 installs · 5.0 stars
#128

Multicollab: Content Team Collaboration and Editorial Workflow

commenting-feature 300 installs · 3.7 stars
#128

Count Characters, Words and Paragraphs while typing

count-cwp 300 installs · 4.5 stars
#128

Duplicate Title Validator

duplicate-title-validate 300 installs · 5.0 stars
#128

Reset Meta Box Positions

reset-meta-box-positions 300 installs · 5.0 stars
#128

Remove Gutenberg

restore-classic-editor 300 installs · 3.0 stars
#128

Text Case Converter

text-case-converter 300 installs · 4.0 stars
#136

Bordered Blocks – Add subtle borders or outlines and labels to Blocks in the Editor

bordered-blocks 200 installs · 5.0 stars
#136

Disable Full Site Editing

disable-full-site-editing 200 installs
#136

Disable Unused Block Editor Blocks

disable-unused-block-editor-blocks 200 installs · 5.0 stars
#136

Foliopress WYSIWYG

foliopress-wysiwyg 200 installs · 4.0 stars
#136

Just Output

just-output 200 installs · 5.0 stars
#136

NextGEN Gallery Image Chooser

nextgen-gallery-image-chooser 200 installs · 4.7 stars
#136

Press This Extended

press-this-extended 200 installs · 5.0 stars
#136

Save & Go

save-and-go 200 installs · 5.0 stars
#136

Block Revealer

wp-block-revealer 200 installs · 5.0 stars
#145

Admin Posts Navigation

admin-posts-navigation 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#145

BetterBlocks

betterblocks 100 installs
#145

CM Footnotes – Boost your content’s credibility with footnotes, citations, and bibliography

cm-footnotes 100 installs · 4.2 stars
#145

Frontend Editor ACF

frontend-editor-acf 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#145

Headingo

headingo 100 installs
#145

Jamie's Front-End Editor for Content Teams

jamies-front-end-editor-for-content-teams 100 installs · 4.6 stars
#145

Lorem Ipsum – Block Editor Dummy Text Autocomplete

loremipsum 100 installs
#145

Mandatory Excerpts for WordPress

mandatory-excerpt 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#145

MRW Simplified Editor

mrw-web-design-simple-tinymce 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#145

Publish Confirm Message

publish-confirm-message 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#145

Remove layout destroying HTML-Tags

remove-layout-destroying-html-tags 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#145

Return shortlink button

return-shortlink-button 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#145

SeeMax Resizable Editor Sidebar

seemax-sidebar-resize 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#145

Tansa

tansa 100 installs
#145

WP Heading Buttons

wp-heading-buttons 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#145

Quicktags for WP

wp-quicktags 100 installs · 4.0 stars
#145

WYSIWYG Character Limit for ACF

wysiwyg-character-limit-for-acf 100 installs
#162

Block Highlighter by Meine Infoseite

meine-infoseite-block-highlighter 80 installs

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