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Category Editor

by kevin heath · Uncategorized

Provides the ability to add a fully functional tinymce editor and html plus shortcodes to the category description and tag description to style up the …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
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47 Health · D
Maintenance 3
Rating quality 82
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-36%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

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Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

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Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “8K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
8K–9K ≈8.4K

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

Install history · since 2016-05-26 · 1,389 observations

Details

Version
3.8.3
Last updated
5.6y ago
Added
2012-01-02
Requires WP
3.3
Tested up to
5.6.17
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-08 9K+ → 8K+ down after 200 days in band
  2. 2025-10-20 10K+ → 9K+ down after 3 days in band
  3. 2025-10-17 9K+ → 10K+ up after 1 days in band
  4. 2025-10-16 10K+ → 9K+ down

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Category Editor: 8K+ active installs, 4.5★ (22 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/categorytinymce