Paste as Plain Text

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1. ★★★★★ Christian

   8.1y ago

   It works as it described yet it doesn’t work on WordPress’ Guttenberg editor. I hope the developer see this review.

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2. ★★★★★ ncamm

   8.5y ago

   Added to a company intranet site. Works great when pasting content from Google docs/sheets

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3. ★★★★★ Barry Ceelen

   8.9y ago

   Gets rid of the pesky problem of unexpected erroneous tags in the post content. No more explaining to do. Thanks!

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4. ★★★★★ endlessloving

   9.0y ago

   I really like this plugin. It helps to keep things clean and avoid all the fuzz that comes with pasting text from Word and other text editing tools.

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5. ★★★★★ johnrom

   9.8y ago

   This plugin does exactly what it is supposed to, and is very readable code. Thanks for your hard work!

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6. ★★★★★ Computerbuddha

   10.0y ago

   Genau das was ich gesucht habe. Standardmässige Aktivierung von “Als Text einfügen” und das Verbergen des entsprechenden Buttons! Sehr nützlich, wenn Benutzer eines Portals mit Vorliebe die Inhalte ihrer Webseite per copy & paste einfügen und damit Chaos im Quellcode verursachen. Wenn es noch eine Möglichkeit gäbe, die Funktion “Als Text einfügen” gleichzeitig für Administratoren optional verfügbar zu machen, wäre es perfekt 🙂

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7. ★★★★★ zebull

   10.0y ago

   This feature has been discussed for almost 10 years for other CMS and blog tools using TinyMCE. No one has succeeded. This plugin just works (without discussion). Thanks Till!

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8. ★★★★★ Simon Meisinger

   10.7y ago

   This really should be a standard option. Thank you!

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

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

1. 2025-04-12 2K+ → 1K+ 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).

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• Black Studio TinyMCE Widget 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• AddQuicktag 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
• Post and Page Builder by BoldGrid – Visual Drag and Drop Editor 50K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• A Advanced TinyMCE Configuration 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
• A Advanced Image Styles 9K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D

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Paste as Plain Text: 1K+ active installs, 4.9★ (14 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/paste-as-plain-text