Rich Text Editor

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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

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.

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

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.

10 of the last 10 four- and five-star reviews came from accounts created within a month of posting the review, and 6 of those landed between 2015-12-07 and 2015-12-29.

Registering a wp.org account just to leave a review is common and often entirely legitimate. The share here is unusually high for the sample, so it's worth keeping in mind while reading the reviews.

1. ★★★★★ korsanuydu61

   2.6y ago

   pls new version

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2. ★★★★★ squaladesign

   9.5y ago

   I really wanted to like this editor but it crashed my whole post/page editor, so I have had to deactivate it. Here’s the error message I received: Warning: DOMDocument::load(): I/O warning : failed to load external entity “/home/…/public_html/wp-admin/richtexteditor/config/default.config” in /home/…/public_html/wp-content/plugins/richtexteditor/richtexteditor/include_rte.php on line 2194 P.S. it’s new WP installation without anything yet This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by squaladesign.

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3. ★★★★★ davidaa201701

   9.7y ago

   just start using this plug-in to edit my site content, it is powerful.

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4. ★★★★★ Eduardo Leoni

   10.2y ago

   sucks. Left me with “not found” for a text editor

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5. ★★★★★ ubercrue

   10.4y ago

   The biggest bug for me thus far is it removes all formatting on anything edited not initially created with it. A.k.a. comments, when I go to edit bam, all formatting is removed. On large comments this is tiresome. Also, there are a lot of small bugs, like the link button doesn’t always work as it should, auto-filling with in house links and will not allow you to write one in until that section is completely re-written. Those are just the first 2 and I know there is a bunch just don’t feel like writing them all down. Suffice it to say if you can overlook, fix, or ignore the bugs it has more options than any other editor and I would really like to keep using it but until the formatting issue is fixed, I can’t.

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6. ★★★★★ zdeneca

   10.4y ago

   This plugin seems to have 6 fake 5-star reviews as these reviews were submitted within 3 weeks and each “reviewer” has a completely new account that just reviewed this plugin. All these accounts also have default profile images. Moderators should review and remove these reviews.

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7. ★★★★★ ji_fearou

   10.4y ago

   1) It works so slow at start , when you opening a Post. 2) And it doesn’t have HTML editor, show only text, and you can’t choose too add Html elements. 3) It somehow turn off save functions of Enigma themes. I can’t change anything on that Theme.

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8. ★★★★★ angelandujar

   10.5y ago

   This editor plugin it’s REEEEALY good! I didn’t download this plugin before because of the low download rate, but after get tired of dumb editors (even Zedity $39) I decided to give a try to this one… MEEEN! This freaking plugin is good! for real! Just try it. Don’t pay attention to the bad reviews and the low download rate. Believe me, you won’t regret it.

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2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, 2 still affect the current version.

1. Medium · 5.3 Rich Text Editor <= 1.0.1 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2025-04-02 CVE-2025-31736 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.1 No patch available
2. Medium · 6.1 Rich Text Editor <= 1.0.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-03-31 CVE-2025-31623 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.0.1 No patch available

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

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-04-24 60+ → 50+ down after 310 days in tier
2. 2025-06-18 70+ → 60+ down after 2 days in tier
3. 2025-06-16 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2025-06-15 70+ → 60+ down after 2 days in tier
5. 2025-06-13 60+ → 70+ up after 2 days in tier
6. 2025-06-11 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-06-10 60+ → 70+ up after 3 days in tier
8. 2025-06-07 70+ → 60+ down after 226 days in tier

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).

• Code Manager 500+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A
• A Add TinyMCE to the Additional Description field 10+ installs · 3.7★ · 1 shared tag D
• S Save Me 10+ installs · 3.7★ · 1 shared tag D

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Rich Text Editor: 50+ active installs, 3.2★ (22 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/richtexteditor