Best special characters plugins for WordPress
The most popular special characters plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Insert Special Characters leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of Remove Special Characters on Upload (90+) and Password Generator (70+). All 10 plugins tagged “special characters” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 special characters plugins
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Insert Special CharactersThe most installed special characters plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 8 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Remove Special Characters on Upload90+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 3.
Password Generator70+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 4.
Hawaiian Characters30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 5.
Remove Special Characters20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
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Clean Media Library File Names20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.0.
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Cleanup Text10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.0.
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Secure Password Generator10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 9.
TypeAnySymbolFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
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WebTextTools Character PickerFewer than 10 active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 10 plugins tagged “special characters”
Insert Special Characters
Down in the last 7 days:12#3,730by 10up1 month ago
A Special Character inserter for the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg).
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.9(8)
- Downloads
- 35/day
Remove Special Characters on Upload
Up in the last 7 days:81#16,851by Douglas Faria3 years ago
A plugin that will help you remove special characters from the name of your files.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Password Generator
Down in the last 7 days:148#18,312by Outerbridge4 years ago
Password Generator is a plugin which adds a widget to WordPress which generates various length random passwords (with or without special characters).
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hawaiian Characters
Up in the last 7 days:7#23,056by mrwweb5 years ago
Adds the correct characters with diacriticals to the WordPress editor Special Characters feature for Hawaiian
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove Special Characters
#26,244by CHR Designer11 years ago
This plugin will help when you add images with special characters, after activated it will remove all special characters of new images added.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Clean Media Library File Names
Up in the last 7 days:730#28,373by webdeveric11 years ago
This plugin cleans uploaded file names to remove special characters and spaces.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Cleanup Text
#43,025by roggie16 years ago
Function to remove smart quotes, HTML and other special characters from text. Call the function with text as argument, function returns clean text.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Secure Password Generator
#46,456by oakcreekdev3 years ago
Adds a secure password generator to your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
TypeAnySymbol
Down in the last 7 days:387#57,391by typeanysymbol2 months ago
Search Unicode symbols by name, common term, character or code point and insert them directly into the WordPress block editor.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WebTextTools Character Picker
Up in the last 7 days:1,591#63,979by webtexttools7 months ago
Insert accented and special characters into Gutenberg with a fast, searchable character picker.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day