WordPress Editor Plugins

The Editor category spans 559 plugins, from block and page-building workflows to classic editing tools and controls for the editor interface. Install counts and update activity vary across its most installed options.

Editor Plugins Ranking

Top 100 of 562 plugins in Editor category

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Block editing, page building and classic editor workflows

The category brings together plugins associated with block-based editing, page builders and classic-editor workflows.

  • Blocks and Gutenberg: These are prominent related tags, appearing across 147 and 96 plugins respectively. Kadence Blocks and GenerateBlocks are leading examples in the category.
  • Page building: The page-builder tag appears across 53 plugins. Elementor Website Builder and Page Builder: Pagelayer are among the category’s most installed plugins.
  • Classic editing and rich text: TinyMCE appears across 66 plugins and WYSIWYG across 35. Classic Editor, Advanced Editor Tools and Black Studio TinyMCE Widget are notable names in this part of the category.

Editor controls beyond content layout

Several leading plugins are associated with editor-interface changes or permissions rather than page-layout approaches.

  • Classic Widgets and Disable Gutenberg: Both appear among the category’s most installed plugins and point to controls around editing interfaces.
  • Advanced Editor Tools and AddQuicktag: These names sit alongside the category’s TinyMCE and classic-editor workflows.
  • User Role Editor: This leading plugin represents the permissions-control side of the category.

How adoption is distributed across editor plugins

Adoption is concentrated among a small group of highly installed plugins within a broad category.

The category contains 559 plugins; 12 have at least 100,000 active installs, and 31 have at least 10,000. The leading plugin, Elementor Website Builder, has 10 million active installs, while AddQuicktag, among the listed leaders, has 100,000.

Between those ends, Classic Editor has 8 million active installs, Classic Widgets has 2 million, and GenerateBlocks has 200,000. The spread shows that the category includes plugins with markedly different levels of adoption.

What update activity and ratings show when choosing

Update recency and ratings offer directory signals, but they are not hands-on assessments of plugin quality.

Just 37% of category plugins were updated in the last year. Among the listed leaders, five were updated this month, while Classic Widgets was updated 10 months ago; the rest range from one to five months since their last update.

Most listed leaders have excellent reported ratings, with review volumes ranging from few to many. Page Builder: Pagelayer is listed with a mixed rating and a moderate number of reviews, while AddQuicktag has an excellent rating and few reviews. Review volume and rating patterns provide context, not a substitute for assessing a plugin against a site’s needs.