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Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg

by Ella Van Durpe · Blocks

Also makes 2 other plugins · 3.1K+ installs across the portfolio →

Additional tools for rich text fields in Gutenberg.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 88/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 67 average across 1,682 Blocks plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.24, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

45 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 13/100
Rating quality 79/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2739 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+64% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

245

now · peak 411

24730d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Advanced Rich Text T · #3713 you Classic Editor · #4 Classic Widgets · #24 Advanced Editor Tool · #30

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

82per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

7.5y ago

latest release · v1.2.0

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2.0 · 7.5y ago1.1.0 · 7.8y ago1.0.0 · 7.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.2 100%
v1.1 0.3%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “3K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
3K–4K ≈3.4K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2018-12-02 · 1,467 observations

3KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.2.0
Last updated
7.5y ago
Added
2018-11-14 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
5.1
Tested up to
5.1.24
Requires PHP
5.3

Recent reviews

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  1. Jonathan Camp
    5.5y ago

    Ignore this review – wrong plugin (sorry) This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by Jonathan Camp.

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  2. heinelg
    5.6y ago

    Gutenberg doesn’t allow me to add <sup> & </sup> even in the code editor but this plugin fills this surprising omission. Thanks!

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  3. François Moreau
    6.4y ago

    Despite being the leading plugin for adding Subscript and Superscript to the Gutenberg editor, most of its UI has not be coded in a way to allow translation. A fix has been sent by a member of the community more than a year ago, unfortunately it has not been included by the developer. As it is, this plugin is only of interest to english speaking users.

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  4. Webprom Design
    6.6y ago

    Must be integrated into Gutenberg! It also works well with Central Color Palette plugin.

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  5. impochun
    6.8y ago

    easy and awesome!

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  6. Doobeedoo
    7.2y ago

    Nice free plugin, finally colors on text with Gutenberg ! Thanks for your work

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  7. alexnavin
    7.3y ago

    Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks, guys. Gutenberg offers a few text editing options. For me having a block of code in my tutorials is vital. So thanks guys, for adding it to the editor.

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  8. Peter Raschendorfer
    7.4y ago

    No more need to use the HTML view to insert Code. Thanks a lot. Exactly what I was looking for. It just works!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 12 languages, 12 at 90% or more

Chinese (Taiwan) 100%
Dutch (Belgium) 100%
French (France) 100%
German 100%
German (Formal) 100%
Italian 100%
Japanese 100%
Korean 100%
Portuguese (Brazil) 100%
Spanish (Chile) 100%
Spanish (Spain) 100%
Spanish (Venezuela) 100%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-13 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-12 3K+ → 4K+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2026-06-10 4K+ → 3K+ down after 515 days in tier
  4. 2025-01-11 5K+ → 4K+ down after 452 days in tier
  5. 2023-10-17 6K+ → 5K+ down after 332 days in tier
  6. 2022-11-19 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2022-11-18 6K+ → 7K+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2022-11-17 7K+ → 6K+ down after 13 days in tier

Competes with

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