Best text plugins for WordPress
The most popular text plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. String locator leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Enhanced Text Widget (30K+) and Custom Shortcodes (5K+). All 165 plugins tagged “text” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 text plugins
- 1.
String locatorThe most installed text plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 125 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.Enhanced Text Widget
30K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 50 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 3.Custom Shortcodes
5K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.
- 4.
Text Replace3K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 18 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 5.
Classic Text Widget2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 15 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 6.Gettext override translations
2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 7.
Change Text Case1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 21 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Special Text Boxes1K+ active installs. Rated 3.4 from 21 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.WP Typograph Lite
1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.1.
- 10.Visual User Description Editor
1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.0.
All 165 plugins tagged “text”

String locator
Down in the last 7 days:1#367by InstaWP1 month ago
Find and edit code or texts in your themes and plugins
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.6(125)
- Downloads
- 788/day
Enhanced Text Widget
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,000by cl2722 years ago
An enhanced version of the text widget that supports Text, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Shortcodes and PHP with linkable widget title.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.9(50)
- Downloads
- 62/day
Custom Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:11#3,168by marapper17 years ago
Manage custom fields using the insert shortcodes or HTML comment in text of post.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Text Replace
Down in the last 7 days:5#3,951by Scott Reilly5 years ago
Replace text with other text. Handy for creating shortcuts to common, lengthy, or frequently changing text/HTML, or for smilies.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.4(18)
- Downloads
- 15/day

Classic Text Widget
Up in the last 7 days:130#4,454by Victor Font7 years ago
The classic pre-WordPress version 4.8 text widget
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(15)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Gettext override translations
#4,710by ramon fincken2 years ago
GUI in backend to override texts and translations without any programming knowledge.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 13/day

Change Text Case
Down in the last 7 days:19#5,170by Michael Aronoff2 months ago
Change Case adds buttons to change text case in the WordPress visual editor.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(21)
- Downloads
- 18/day

Special Text Boxes
Down in the last 7 days:16#5,185by minimus1 month ago
Highlights any portion of text as text in the colored boxes.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.4(21)
- Downloads
- 25/day
WP Typograph Lite
Down in the last 7 days:20#5,853by marapper9 years ago
Russian typography for Wordpress. Lite version.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Visual User Description Editor
Down in the last 7 days:11#6,292by zwwuu4 years ago
Replaces the user "Biographical Info" profile field with a TinyMCE visual editor.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Image & Text Widget
Up in the last 7 days:17#7,095by dFactory9 years ago
Easy to use plugin that uses the native WordPress media manager to add image widgets to your site.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Visual Editor Biography
Down in the last 7 days:17#7,200by Kevin Leary14 years ago
Replaces the author "Biographical Info" profile field with a TinyMCE visual editor.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.8(12)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Easy Font Resize
Down in the last 7 days:14#7,981by ziher43 years ago
Allow your visitors to increase or decrease font size of the "main" section of your website.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Search and Replace for Block Editor
Down in the last 7 days:32#8,583by badasswp2 months ago
Search and Replace text within the WordPress Block Editor just like Microsoft Word or Google Docs. It's super fast, easy & just works!
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Simple Note
Down in the last 7 days:17#9,121by Webliberty1 year ago
The plugin allows you to create colored text notes in the new block editor.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Section Widget
Up in the last 7 days:5#9,176by ctltwp1 year ago
Display arbitrary information only on selected sections of your site. Also allows you to easily organize them into tabs in your sidebar.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Lorem Ipsum Block
Down in the last 7 days:42#9,228by eedee6 years ago
Rapidly prototype your posts and pages with lorem ipsum paragraphs and headings.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Text Domain Inspector
Up in the last 7 days:15#9,612by laugei2 years ago
Text Domain Inspector is a plugin that helps to inspect text domains of translatable strings
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Content text slider on post
Up in the last 7 days:30#10,342by gopi_plus3 years ago
Use this plugin to scroll the content vertically in the posts and pages.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

HTML Block
Down in the last 7 days:63#11,151by sidngr3 years ago
Create your HTML code and place it anywhere on your site using a shortcode.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Copyrighted Post
Up in the last 7 days:22#11,437by minimus1 year ago
Adds copyright notice in the end of each post of your blog.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.8(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day

WYSIWYG Editor for Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:15#12,127by Dimitris Chatzis5 years ago
Let's you add a WYSIWYG Editor field for Contact Form 7.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Kalamatino
Down in the last 7 days:195#12,494by Shokrino Team4 years ago
You can easily replace a letter or every text with your custom text with kalamatino.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Quote Master
Down in the last 7 days:86#12,939by Frank Corso8 years ago
This plugin gives you the ability to add, edit, and delete quotes and display them randomly.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.7(10)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Show Content Only
Down in the last 7 days:6#13,096by Zack Katz12 years ago
Display only the post or page content, without a theme, sidebars, scripts or stylesheets.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Content Randomizer
Down in the last 7 days:151#13,460by Dominykas8 years ago
This plugin allows you to add texts, images, videos and display them in a random order or slideshow.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Typograph Full
Down in the last 7 days:467#13,716by marapper17 years ago
Russian typography for Wordpress. Full version with settings.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Password Protected Text
Down in the last 7 days:7#14,190by Marcello Scacchetti14 years ago
Custom text message for password protected pages and posts
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Contact Form 7 Customfield in mail
Down in the last 7 days:9#14,318by Jeffrey16 years ago
This plugin provides a new tag type for the Contact Form 7 Plugin. It allows the use of customfields from a post to be used in the mail section
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Simple Text Shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:8#14,815by Alexander Panayotov8 years ago
Create text shortocodes with ease!
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Admin Footer Text
Up in the last 7 days:31#15,205by jp211211 years ago
Display custom text (or links) in the admin footer.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Russian texts proofreader Glvrd
Up in the last 7 days:8#15,590by Nikolai Lopin9 years ago
Главред помогает очистить текст от словестного мусора. Proofreads texts written in russian.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mobile Contact Buttons
Down in the last 7 days:15#15,626by tanja1118 years ago
Adds Call, Email and SMS buttons on bottom of website. Only for Mobile View of website.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Pz-Talk
Down in the last 7 days:82#16,233by ぽぽろん@ぽぽづれ。2 months ago
顔アイコンと吹き出しを表示させて会話を表現できます。
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Add Login Text
Down in the last 7 days:46#17,445by jp211211 years ago
Display custom text (or links) on the admin login screen.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Text Replacer
Down in the last 7 days:135#17,685by teamuqb3 years ago
Replace one or more words, or entire sentence across all posts and pages reliably with Text Replacer.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
wpTextResize
Up in the last 7 days:109#17,757by Brad Parbs14 years ago
wpTextResize is an easy to use way to have Increase, Decrease, reset font size controls for body text on a WordPress site.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Subpage as Expandable Text Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:127#17,980by salubrio1 year ago
Add [subpages_expand] to any parent page. All child pages' titles are shown as links that expand to content when clicked
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Marquee Top
Down in the last 7 days:21#19,165by Paolo Mason1 year ago
Marquee Top is a WordPress plugin that adds customizable marquee text to your site's top header, letting you adjust its style and speed.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post size text changer
Down in the last 7 days:17#19,187by TrueFalse14 years ago
Allow your readers to change the font size of article!
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
gText Widget
Down in the last 7 days:231#19,934by Guram Kajaia12 years ago
This is multilingual text widget, which works with qTranslate plugin.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Read Text File
Up in the last 7 days:201#19,948by Aaron Sonnenberg15 years ago
Allows you to display the contents of a text file within a post by adding a simple shortcode and including a path from the root folder.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
GR Lorem Ipsum Generator
Up in the last 7 days:43#20,306by jwiere038 years ago
Generates one or more randomly selected paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum text from shortcode.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- 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

Text Snipper
Up in the last 7 days:127#21,178by jordanwebdev10 years ago
An easy to use text truncator that trims down multi-line overflowing text and adds an ellipses("...") to it.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Text Modules
Up in the last 7 days:58#22,501by Thorsten Frommen11 years ago
Use the new Text Modules custom post type and display a text module by either shortcode or widget.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Lyode Dynamic Typing Animation
Down in the last 7 days:348#22,990by Filikod1 year ago
Create stunning dynamic text animations with multiple effects (typewriter, glitch, neon, etc.) using shortcodes and page builder integrations.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

The Typography
Down in the last 7 days:80#23,350by Alvaro6 years ago
Add Typography to your Gutenberg site using Google Fonts.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PHP-Widgetify
Down in the last 7 days:12#23,793by RMWebsec17 years ago
Execute HTML, Text or PHP fast and easy with this Widgetify-widget.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Content Copy
#24,253by The AV Coach2 months ago
Modifies copied content with customizable text, link, and snippet options when pasted elsewhere.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day