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TinyMCE Paste in Plain Text by Default

by raphaabreu · Uncategorized

Changes the default behavior on TinyMCE so that all text is pasted plain by default.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 16,378 Uncategorized 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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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.

32 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4914 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+30% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

74

now · peak 157

7430d 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

TinyMCE Paste in Pla · #16762 you Paste as Plain Text · #5610 Advanced Editor Tool · #30 Black Studio TinyMCE · #233

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.

740per 1k installs · Aug 26

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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

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

At the current install trend, crossing 200+ in roughly 1237 days.

Install history · since 2019-07-18 · 1,382 observations

100Installs · 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
1.0
Last updated
13.5y ago
Added
2013-03-18 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.3
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. yoren
    12.7y ago

    It really works!

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  2. Felskoch
    13.4y ago

    Sehr hilfreich, um Word- und html-Formatierungen bei Copy&Paste erzwungenermaßen zu verhindern. Da muss man den Usern nicht mehr mühsam einen Workaround mit Texteditor, per Button oder Puretext erklären. Hält sich eh keiner dran und hinterher sieht’s aus wie Müll..

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-08 90+ → 100+ up after 63 days in tier
  2. 2026-02-04 100+ → 90+ down

Competes with

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TinyMCE Paste in Plain Text by Default: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/tinymce-paste-in-plain-text-by-default