Category Editor

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1. ★★★★★ akil50

   4.9y ago

   I really enjoyed this for like 30sec. I add slider to my categories, went back to category list in my admin panel and every changed category is generating sliders in my list. I cannot do ANYTHING, bc it’s covered by huge sliders. WTF?! Only fix was removing plugin form system. That’s bad!

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2. ★★★★★ Shahid Malik

   6.0y ago

   Great. Worked perfectly. Thank you sir..

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3. ★★★★★ LogoLogics

   6.7y ago

   Great plugin to add styled description to the Woocommerce categories! Thanks!

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4. ★★★★★ mhwallace1

   6.8y ago

   I’ve looked high and low for some way of placing an image at the top of Category pages. (And have gotten frustrated trying to code it myself, I’m just not to that level, yet.) I’m using only 6 Categories to break my site content into manageable sections. Part of my navigation structure includes images unique to each content Category. I need some way of having those images display at the top of each respective Category page (be it archive.php or otherwise). CategoryTinyMCE is doing exactly what I need and so far seems to be playing well with WP 5.2.4 and all the other plugins I have installed. Thank you!

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5. ★★★★★ zeuspress

   6.9y ago

   Works great and quick help through the plugin support forum if needed.

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6. ★★★★★ pullober

   7.5y ago

   this really is a great plugin. works with WordPress 5.1 and does the job brilliantly. thank you very much.

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7. ★★★★★ reca26

   7.5y ago

   Doing the first steps with WP 5x and I’m very happy to found this indispensable Plug-in working. (Environment: WP 5.1 DE, Classic Editor-Plugin, TinyMCE Advanced-Plugin)

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8. ★★★★★ genphiz

   7.8y ago

   I don’t know who you are man, but I f*ck*ng love you! That’s the perfect plugin for everyone that understand a little bit SEO. Let met explain : The main weakness of a Woocommerce shop is the product category page. There’s only one field and the field is placed in front of product list. So far I had several option : Option 1 – Placing a small text in front of my product list, which give me a poor SEO rank. Option 2 – Placing a big ass text after my product list, which give me a … not ranked by google. Google consider my page as non relevant. Option 3 – Using a plugin to make a dropdown text. Google don’t give high value of dropdown text, which lead my page to go down on SERP. Option 4 is a suicide option, but by placing my big ass text in front of my product list I can get a good ranking from SEO. BUT I will get a bounce rate so high that Google end up thinking my page is poorly relevant. You gave me the best option : Put the most relevant keyword in the first description. Put all the most long tail keyword at the bottom. It give me a good ranking from the most relevant keyword and it give me an awesome long tail strategy. Man, just thank you so much for your plugin. This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by genphiz.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.8.3 code tidy up and check with latest version of WordPress 5.6 3.8.3
2. — Version 3.8.2 first stage of plugin rename following request from Tiny who own the term TinyMCE 3.8.2
3. — Version 3.8.1 Bug Fix – fixed bug that caused issues for sites without woocommerce installed. 3.8.1
4. — Version 3.8 New feature – og:image support for WordPress categories and Woocommerce product categories. 3.8
5. — Version 3.7.3 fixed bug. Opening div placed outside php buffer causing conflicts with styling and incorrectly closed div section. 3.7.3
6. — Version 3.7.2 Fixed a couple of bugs on tag edit options. (seo options and image save option.) 3.7.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.6

Translated into 59 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Plus 35 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

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

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• T Taxonomy TinyMCE 900+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
• LexiTerm — installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Reusable Product Description for WooCommerce 100+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag D

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Category Editor: 8K+ active installs, 4.5★ (22 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/categorytinymce