The visual editor widget for WordPress.
As of April 2026, Black Studio TinyMCE Widget is a WordPress editor plugin with 200K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 192 reviews. It has been downloaded 11M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP 5.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Elementor Website Builder – more than….
This plugin adds a new Visual Editor widget type that allows you to insert rich text and media objects in your sidebars with no hassle. With Black Studio TinyMCE Widget you will be able to edit your widgets in a WYSIWYG manner using the native WordPress TinyMCE editor, just like you do in posts and pages. And if you are a developer you may still switch back and forth from Visual to HTML mode.
For years the default WordPress text widget has been very basic and it required HTML knowledge to add formatting and images/media to the text. This plugin was born in 2011 to overcome these limitations. After a long time, in June 2017, version 4.8 of WordPress finally introduced a new text widget that included the ability to manage text widgets with the visual editor. The new widget available in Word…
Great plugin and easypeasy to use!
Keep on keepin’ on …
Works as expected. Very stable plugin. No annoying reminders. Makes things at classiccarsszone more structured. Superb.
It’s a very good ans simple visual editor, too bad that is missing the possibility to add an image swap (rollover, mouseover). You can just add friezed images.
it works great, thanks
Works very well, makes my life easier. Thank you.
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.2+ required |
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