As of April 2026, AddFunc WYSIWYG Helper is a WordPress tinyMCE plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 12K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Black Studio TinyMCE Widget.
5/52 reviews
100active installs
12K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
AddFunc WYSIWYG Helper is a lightweight plugin that uses CSS to highlight prominent HTML elements in the default WYSIWYG editor (Tiny MCE), to help Editors see what they’re editing. This in effect creates a sort of combination WYSIWYG/WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) combination. With the WYSIWYM option turned on in your user profile, the following elements are highlighted with a colored border and label:
- p
- div
- pre
- ol
- ul
- li
- figure
- article
- section
- aside
- header
- footer
- span*
- code*
*Span and code elements are highlighted without labels. For span elements, this is to help make them more prominent, so they are easy to spot. This can help Editors keep the code clean, as they can see where they need to remove unwanted styling using the style eraser button. For code elements, we do…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 5.0.25 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
5.0
6-Jul-2017
- Adds highlighting for
<section>elements - Removes option for canceling default image caption styles.
- This feature became obsolete a few WordPress versions back as the styling for image captions had been eliminated in WordPress core.
- All functions and relevant code for this option have been stripped out
- Removes file overrides.css
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