Best wysiwyg plugins for WordPress
The most popular wysiwyg plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Black Studio TinyMCE Widget leads with 200K+ active installs, ahead of Re-add text underline and justify (50K+) and Re-Add Text Justify Button (20K+). All 74 plugins tagged “wysiwyg” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 wysiwyg plugins
- 1.Black Studio TinyMCE Widget
The most installed wysiwyg plugin, with 200K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 191 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.Re-add text underline and justify
50K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 25 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Re-Add Text Justify Button20K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.Visual Term Description Editor
10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 21 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 5.Advanced TinyMCE Configuration
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 12 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 6.
Widget Content Blocks10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 60 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.
WP Editor Widget9K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 18 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 8.ACF Autosize
4K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 20 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 9.Advanced Post Excerpt
2K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 10.
Advanced Classic Editor2K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 10 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 74 plugins tagged “wysiwyg”
Black Studio TinyMCE Widget
Down in the last 7 days:1#236by Black Studio2 months ago
The visual editor widget for WordPress.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.8(191)
- Downloads
- 838/day
Re-add text underline and justify
Up in the last 7 days:2#738by Brice Capobianco11 months ago
This tiny plugin re-adds the Editor text underline & text justify buttons in the WYSIWYG removed in WordPress 4.7.0
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.7(25)
- Downloads
- 95/day

Re-Add Text Justify Button
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,217by Salvatore Cordiano2 months ago
The most simple plugin to re-add text justify on WordPress 4.7+
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 96/day
Visual Term Description Editor
Up in the last 7 days:2#1,516by Shea Bunge2 years ago
Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(21)
- Downloads
- 47/day
Advanced TinyMCE Configuration
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,863by Andrew Ozz3 years ago
Set advanced TinyMCE options for the classic block and classic editor.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(12)
- Downloads
- 40/day

Widget Content Blocks
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,022by Danny van Kooten2 months ago
Edit widget content using the default WordPress visual editor and media uploading functionality. Create widgets like you would create posts or pages.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(60)
- Downloads
- 43/day

WP Editor Widget
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,288by feedmeastraycat6 years ago
WP Editor Widget adds a rich text widget where the content is edited using the standard WordPress visual editor.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.6(18)
- Downloads
- 22/day
ACF Autosize
Down in the last 7 days:4#3,432by Yeah GbR4 years ago
A wordpress plugin to automatically resize and improve upon wysiwyg and textarea fields in Advanced Custom Fields.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 34/day
Advanced Post Excerpt
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,455by Steve Grunwell2 years ago
Replace the default Post Excerpt meta box with a superior editing experience.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 13/day

Advanced Classic Editor
Down in the last 7 days:12#4,606by DediData8 months ago
Advanced Classic Editor - Your powerful WordPress editor, Insert many Icons, Insert Table of contents, etc.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.0(10)
- Downloads
- 25/day

WP-RTL
Down in the last 7 days:14#4,934by Fahad Alduraibi9 years ago
Adds two buttons to the TinyMCE editor to enable writing text in Left to Right (LTR) and Right to Left (RTL) directions.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 12/day

WP Super Edit
Down in the last 7 days:17#5,029by Ahmad Awais6 years ago
Get control of the WordPress wysiwyg visual editor and add some functionality with more buttons and custom TinyMCE plugins.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.7(18)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Cleanup HTML
Up in the last 7 days:32#5,438by closemarketing6 years ago
Adds a button to your classic editor visual toolbar that when clicked strips all div, 'table', span tags from your post HTML code -- those a …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Disable Visual Editor WYSIWYG
Down in the last 7 days:92#5,453by stanxp8 years ago
This plugin will disable the visual editor for selected page/post..
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(22)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Smart WYSIWYG Blocks Of Content
Up in the last 7 days:12#5,631by Coen Jacobs9 years ago
Adds a custom post type that can be easily inserted at multiple spots, including widgets. Easy way to create WYSIWYG widgets.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Note
Down in the last 7 days:13#6,602by Slocum Studio8 years ago
Note is a simple and easy to use widget for editing bits of text, live, in your WordPress front-end Customizer.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

tinyWYM Editor
Down in the last 7 days:20#6,886by arickards8 years ago
Convert WordPress's WYSIWYG editor into a WYSIWYM editor. Add and edit any HTML tag and attribute from the visual editor.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Term Description
Up in the last 7 days:37#7,684by hulkplugins2 months ago
You can easily add the TinyMCE (WYSIWYG) editor to WooCommerce product categories and tags "description" for better formatting options.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
TinyMCE Advanced Language Pack
Up in the last 7 days:17#8,588by Andrew Ozz13 years ago
Adds more translations for the TinyMCE components used in the TinyMCE Advanced plugin.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Front-end Editor
Down in the last 7 days:11#9,112by scribu13 years ago
Edit content inline, without going to the admin area.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.0(23)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP TinyMCE Tables
Down in the last 7 days:40#9,710by Storm Consultancy14 years ago
Adds the table controls to the TinyMCE editor in WordPress
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:14#9,891by kubiq11 months ago
TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor when "Use HTML content type" is checked in Contact Form 7 Mail and Mail (2)
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

BuddyPress Forum Editor
Up in the last 7 days:14#10,344by Taehan Lee11 years ago
This plugin provides your members with an easy to use Rich text editor for BuddyPress Group Forums.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WYSIWYG Editor for Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:6#12,090by Dimitris Chatzis5 years ago
Let's you add a WYSIWYG Editor field for Contact Form 7.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Foliopress WYSIWYG
Up in the last 7 days:40#12,885by FolioVision6 months ago
Foliopress WYSIWYG is the editor you were always hoping for, every time you installed a new content management system.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
AddFunc WYSIWYG Helper
Down in the last 7 days:43#14,810by AddFunc8 years ago
Highlights prominent HTML elements in the WYSIWYG editor, to help Editors see what they're editing. Sort of a WYSIWYM (the M is for mean).
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WYSIWYG Character Limit for ACF
Up in the last 7 days:50#15,162by Code and core2 months ago
ACF WYSIWYG Character Limit adds max-character controls to ACF editors, improving content quality, and editorial standards across WordPress.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Yandex Speller Application
Down in the last 7 days:17#15,351by Dmitry Ponomarev12 years ago
Проверка правописания в TinyMCE, используя Яндекс.Спеллер.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WYSIWYG Inline Code Command
Down in the last 7 days:75#15,869by pkgw12 years ago
Adds a button and keybinding to the WYSIWYG (visual) editor to mark text as inline code.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
AWS Easy Page Link
Down in the last 7 days:21#15,922by Derek Ashauer18 years ago
Using the External Link List feature of TinyMCE, this makes it easy to create a link to another page on your website.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MCE SearchReplace Buttons
Down in the last 7 days:64#16,324by tonykroben2 years ago
Adds Search and Replace controls to the visual content editor (TinyMCE).
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Headingo
Down in the last 7 days:1#16,513by Jamie Dąbrowiecki1 month ago
Choose which heading levels are visible in the Classic Editor toolbar.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CKEditor For WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:22#16,661by doni200017 years ago
This plugin Replaces the default Wordpress editor with CKeditor.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
ACF WYSIWYG Styling
Down in the last 7 days:47#17,908by delwinv11 years ago
Provides the necessary CSS classes in ACF WYSYWIG editor to allow for complete styling of the admin interface.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Toolbar Cleanup for Divi
Down in the last 7 days:3#18,188by Jamie Dąbrowiecki1 month ago
Removes the Divi-specific buttons that are added to the TinyMCE toolbar in the Classic Editor.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
NextGEN TinyMce Description
Down in the last 7 days:34#18,588by Marco Buttarini12 years ago
NextGEN TinyMce Description add native tinymce to nextgen gallery picture description.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Comment Quicktags
Down in the last 7 days:206#19,619by Marc Tönsing5 months ago
Make commenting easier with bold, italic, add link and quote buttons on top of the form.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
pure writing
Up in the last 7 days:274#20,764by young12 years ago
增强Wordpress的编辑器功能,让你享受纯粹的写作。
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Customized WYSIWYG Editor Page Widths
Down in the last 7 days:98#21,414by MarcusPope15 years ago
Enforces a maximum page width per post type in the WYSIWYG Visual editor so content will wrap according to the design of the front end.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Customize Editor Control
Down in the last 7 days:49#22,262by truongwp9 years ago
Add WordPress editor control to Customize.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Disable Visual Editor
Down in the last 7 days:14#25,548by Matt Martz16 years ago
Easily disables the visual editor globally.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Monsters Editor for WP Super Edit
Up in the last 7 days:89#26,165by Guan Gui19 years ago
Monsters Editor (MsE) brings the magic of Fckeditor back to TinyMCE.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

TheDock Enhanced Rich Text Editor
Up in the last 7 days:6,155#26,788by TheDock1 month ago
Upgrade WordPress to TinyMCE 7 with a modern editing experience, table support, and seamless ACF integration.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Average WYSIWYG Helper
Down in the last 7 days:211#28,489by Joe Rhoney11 years ago
Highlights prominent HTML elements in the WYSIWYG editor, to help Editors see what they're editing. Sort of a WYSIWYM (the M is for mean).
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
HTML Regex Replace
Up in the last 7 days:140#29,856by Nick Lugovskoy15 years ago
Replace any html you write in editor (Visual or HTML) with pre-defined string. Use Regexp to define patterns for replacement.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WYSIWYG Comments with Trix Editor
Up in the last 7 days:46#30,513by jwz2 months ago
This replaces the WordPress comment submission form with a WYSIWYG rich-text editor.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
JPrompt Description Editor with TinyMCE for NextGEN Gallery
#30,782by jprompt9 months ago
Add a WYSIWYG editor to NextGEN Gallery description fields for easier content formatting.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Save Data:URL images
Up in the last 7 days:393#32,374by xzorro14 years ago
WordPress editor supports inserting images from the clipboard, but the pictures are bad Data:URL type.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 1/day
BP-TinyMCE
#33,255by Boone Gorges15 years ago
Replaces textareas throughout BuddyPress with the TinyMCE rich text box.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Smart Editor
Up in the last 7 days:145#34,569by wadadanet12 years ago
WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Get.) HTML5 Editor,
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day