Best format plugins for WordPress
The most popular format plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Meks Time Ago leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of TinyMCE Custom Styles (7K+) and International Phone Number Format (300+). All 18 plugins tagged “format” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 format plugins
- 1.
Meks Time AgoThe most installed format plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 9 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
TinyMCE Custom Styles7K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 15 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 3.
International Phone Number Format300+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 4.
Code Markup200+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 18 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.5.
- 5.
Text Control100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 6.
Highlight Text100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 7.
Urvanov richtext addfmt70+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 8.
Markdown for WordPress and bbPress50+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 18 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.5.1.
- 9.
JSM Pretty Schema JSON-LD for Yoast SEO, WooCommerce, etc.40+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
- 10.
Diver30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
All 18 plugins tagged “format”
Meks Time Ago
Down in the last 7 days:4#2,105by Meks11 months ago
Automatically change your post date display to "time ago" format like 1 hour ago, 3 days ago, etc...
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(9)
- Downloads
- 45/day
TinyMCE Custom Styles
#2,529by Tim Reeves2 years ago
Enhance TinyMCE visual editor with a dedicated stylesheet, a stylesheet shared with the frontend, and custom styles in the Formats dropdown.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 3.9(15)
- Downloads
- 22/day
International Phone Number Format
Down in the last 7 days:9#10,705by Mohamed Endisha2 years ago
The International Phone Number Format plugin allows you to effortlessly format and validate international phone numbers within WooCommerce and WordPre …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Code Markup
Up in the last 7 days:7#12,655by bennettmcelwee18 years ago
Code Markup is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to include program code samples in your posts.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day
Text Control
Up in the last 7 days:31#13,619by Frank Bueltge13 years ago
Text Control will allow you to choose from a variety of formatting syntaxes and encoding options. You can choose between Markdown, Textile 1, Textile …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Highlight Text
Down in the last 7 days:40#16,145by George Mamadashvili4 years ago
Text highligher for the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg).
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Urvanov richtext addfmt
Down in the last 7 days:195#18,459by urvanov1 year ago
Adds additional buttons to Gutenberg editor.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Markdown for WordPress and bbPress
#20,694by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)18 years ago
A text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
JSM Pretty Schema JSON-LD for Yoast SEO, WooCommerce, etc.
Down in the last 7 days:71#22,353by JS Morisset10 days ago
Re-format Schema LD+JSON / JSON-LD from Yoast SEO, WooCommerce, and others to create human readable (aka "pretty") code.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Diver
Up in the last 7 days:244#23,853by Leandro Arndt10 years ago
Add HTML <div> tags directly on the visual editor. Supports css classes and media embedding parameters. Use shortcode [div].
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Format Filter
Down in the last 7 days:49#26,510by Mark / t31os15 years ago
Filter posts by post format, also supports custom types.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Formats
Up in the last 7 days:76#27,258by silver53012 years ago
Enables Post Formats support.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pangu JS
Down in the last 7 days:376#28,724by 沈唁1 month ago
为什么你们就不能加个空格呢？
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Code Block
Down in the last 7 days:1,120#33,224by Jerome6 years ago
A simple and nice-looking Gutenberg block for displaying code snippets.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Smart Arrow Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:73#47,136by ishan00113 years ago
Automatically replace "" with nice arrow symbols in your posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ingenidev Code Widget for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:162#66,160by ingenidev by Bright Vortex LLC & MetaNetSkills Lda5 months ago
This Elementor plugin allows you to display and format a code container that includes for the viewer an easy to use copy to clipboard functionality.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
GP Format ZIP
Down in the last 7 days:1,397#67,343by meloniq (Andrzej Piotrowski)11 months ago
Adds a ZIP file format to download translations from GlotPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day