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TinyMCE Unrestrictor

by Daniel Klose · Uncategorized

A simple plugin that enables the missing buttons of the TinyMCE Editor and focusses on being lightweight (only about 100 lines of code).

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 56 average across 16,379 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40, 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.

33 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4468 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 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+28% vs prior 30d
5Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

69

now · peak 137

6930d 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 Unrestrictor · #20608 you Advanced Editor Tool · #30 Black Studio TinyMCE · #233 AddQuicktag · #387

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.

1.4Kper 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 “50+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
50–60 ≈58

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

Install history · since 2015-09-05 · 1,388 observations

50Installs · 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
12.2y ago
Added
2014-06-07 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.9.1
Tested up to
3.9.40
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Islo
    11.7y ago

    Works in 4.01. Nice simple plugin, thank you.

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  2. stardaug
    11.8y ago

    Was untested with WP 4.01 but it worked great. Simple, light weight and effective fix to the editor problem. Thanks! Cheers.

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  3. adekenney
    12.0y ago

    Great plugin! Does exactly what is says it does! Thanks!

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  4. LuciaRed
    12.2y ago

    Does exactly as it says with a simple installation!

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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. 2025-11-23 60+ → 50+ down after 30 days in tier
  2. 2025-10-24 50+ → 60+ up after 11 days in tier
  3. 2025-10-13 60+ → 50+ down after 155 days in tier
  4. 2025-05-11 70+ → 60+ down after 57 days in tier
  5. 2025-03-15 60+ → 70+ up after 102 days in tier
  6. 2024-12-03 70+ → 60+ down after 131 days in tier
  7. 2024-07-25 80+ → 70+ down after 7 days in tier
  8. 2024-07-18 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in tier

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TinyMCE Unrestrictor: 50+ active installs, 5.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/tinymce-unrestrictor