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Live from WordPress.org · Sep 27, 2026

Best Formatting Plugins for WordPress

123 plugins are tagged “formatting” on WordPress.org. We rank them by active installs and score every one on update freshness, compatibility, ratings and support — so you can pick a safe one in seconds. The most popular right now is Advanced Excerpt with 80K+ active installs.

Plugins in category123
#1 by installsAdvanced Excerpt
Top-30 installs136.2K+
Avg. health (this page)45/100

123 Formatting plugins

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Best Formatting Plugins for WordPress
Rank Plugin Active installs Rating Updated Health
1 Advanced Excerpt Advanced Excerpt Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts by WPKube 80K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (101) 2 months ago 79
2 Raw HTML Raw HTML Lets you use raw HTML or any other code in your posts. You can also disable smart quotes… by Janis Elsts 10K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 (33) 2 years ago 47
3 TinyMCE Clear Float TinyMCE Clear Float Adds a button to the WordPress TinyMCE editor to clear floats. by Philipp Bammes 10K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (6) 8 years ago 42
4 Toggle wpautop Toggle wpautop Easily disable the default wpautop filter on a post by post basis. by Jonathan Desrosiers 9K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 (32) 5 years ago 46
5 Advanced Image Styles Advanced Image Styles Adjust an image's margins and border with ease in the Visual editor. by Gregory Cornelius 9K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 (65) 9 years ago 44
6 Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg Additional tools for rich text fields in Gutenberg. by Ella Van Durpe 3K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 (20) 8 years ago 44
7 Footnotes Made Easy Footnotes Made Easy Allows post authors to easily add and manage footnotes in posts and pages. by Patrick Lumumba 2K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 (40) 1 month ago 79
8 Clear Floats Button Clear Floats Button Adds clear float button to TinyMCE Editor. by Graffino 2K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (6) 4 years ago 40
9 WP-RTL WP-RTL Adds two buttons to the TinyMCE editor to enable writing text in Left to Right (LTR) and… by Fahad Alduraibi 2K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (20) 9 years ago 45
10 WP Super Edit WP Super Edit Get control of the WordPress wysiwyg visual editor and add some functionality with more… by Ahmad Awais 2K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 3.7 (18) 7 years ago 35
11 WP Typograph Lite WP Typograph Lite Russian typography for Wordpress. Lite version. by marapper 1K+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (3) 9 years ago 34
12 wpuntexturize wpuntexturize Prevent WordPress from converting single and double quotation marks into their curly… by Scott Reilly 900+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 (12) 1 year ago 46
13 RichText Extension RichText Extension Adds useful decoration features to the Gutenberg RichText editor toolbar. by Aki Hamano 900+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (4) 2 months ago 73
14 Empty P Tag Empty P Tag Remove empty paragraph and break tags, and optionally disable WordPress automatic… by Husain Ahmed 700+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (7) 2 months ago 66
15 Keep Emoticons as Text Keep Emoticons as Text Disables the default WordPress option of converting emoticons to image smilies by Geek Goddess 700+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (8) 2 months ago 73
16 Preserve Code Formatting Preserve Code Formatting Preserve formatting of code for display by preventing its modification by WordPress and… by Scott Reilly 400+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 (3) 1 year ago 42
17 WP-Markdown WP-Markdown Allows Markdown to be enabled in posts, comments and bbPress forums. by Stephen Harris 400+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 (28) 9 years ago 50
18 Pagely MultiEdit Pagely MultiEdit MultiEdit adds tinyMCE editable "blocks" to WordPress custom page templates. by joshua strebel 300+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (5) 10 years ago 35
19 Remove Blank P Tag Remove Blank P Tag This plugin remove extra p and br tags from the_content and the_excerpt. by Vishit Shah 300+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1) 1 year ago 42
20 SmartDoc to Post Importer SmartDoc to Post Importer Import Word documents into WordPress while preserving links, lists, formatting, images… by Ankur 300+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 (7) 3 days ago 74
21 WP Unformatted WP Unformatted The WP Unformatted plugin allows you to remove WordPress's smart quotes (texturize) and… by Crowd Favorite 200+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (3) 4 years ago 33
22 Remove Wpautop Remove Wpautop This plugin remove extra p and br tags from the_content and the_excerpt. by Rahul Kumar Singh 200+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1) 7 years ago 33
23 Simple HTML Rich Text for Block Editor Simple HTML Rich Text for Block Editor Add Semantic HTML Markup to texts such as Cite, Small, Marked, Inserted and Deleted in the… by laurencebahiirwa 200+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1) 4 years ago 33
24 Hoo Docx Document File Importer Hoo Docx Document File Importer Hoo Docx Document File Importer converts the content of the docx file into HTML and inserts… by HooThemes 100+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1) 4 years ago 32
25 Show Content Only Show Content Only Display only the post or page content, without a theme, sidebars, scripts or stylesheets. by Zack Katz 100+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (4) 12 years ago 32
26 WP Typograph Full WP Typograph Full Russian typography for Wordpress. Full version with settings. by marapper 100+ ★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews 17 years ago 25
27 Just the Page Just the Page Displays page content with no additional formatting (e.g., no header, footer, etc.). Useful… by Ben Balter 100+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (5) 15 years ago 34
28 Text Control Text Control Text Control will allow you to choose from a variety of formatting syntaxes and encoding… by Frank Bueltge 100+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 (3) 13 years ago 31
29 WP-SynHighlight WP-SynHighlight Plugin provides syntax highlighting for about 116 programming languages via Geshi. by FractalizeR 100+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 (5) 11 years ago 35
30 Acronyms 2 Acronyms 2 A plugin to automatically mark up known acronyms and abbreviations in posts and comments… by Chris 100+ ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 (8) 3 years ago 36

Top Formatting plugins, head to head

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How we rank

Popularity first, then a health check you can trust

Plugins are ordered the way WordPress.org ranks them for this category. Next to each one you’ll see its health score, so a popular-but-neglected option never sneaks into your stack.

  • 25 Update freshness
  • 20 Works with the latest WordPress
  • 25 Rating, weighted by review count
  • 15 Support threads resolved
  • 15 Active installs

Popular plugins categories

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FAQ

Quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 27, 2026

What is the most popular formatting plugin for WordPress?

Advanced Excerpt is the most popular formatting plugin with 80K+ active installs and a 4.3/5 rating on WordPress.org.

How many formatting plugins are on WordPress.org?

There are currently 123 plugins tagged “formatting” in the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Which formatting plugin has the best rating?

Among the most-installed options, WP-RTL has the highest rating at 5/5 from 20 reviews.

Are these formatting plugins actively maintained?

1 of the top 30 formatting plugins were updated in the last 30 days. Check each plugin’s health score for update freshness, WordPress compatibility and support responsiveness.

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