Category Editor
Provides the ability to add a fully functional tinymce editor and html plus shortcodes to the category description and tag description to style up the …
4.5(22 reviews)
·9.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Category Editor is a WordPress wp_editor plugin with 9.0K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 22 reviews. It has been downloaded 133K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Taxonomy TinyMCE.
4.5/522 reviews
9.0K+active installs
133K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Are you bored of plain old lists for your category and tag archive pages?
This plugin gives you the ability to pimp up your archives with a fully customisable top description area. You can use html or shortcodes to give a better uder interface and boost the search engine optimisation of archive pages. This means you can turn your category archive page or tag page into a fully developed landing page. No longer just a plain list of posts or products but a customised page packed full of features that will excite your visitors and the search engines.
Category Editor works with any theme that is written to WordPress standards and includes the category description call.
The plugin adds a WordPress editor to the category description area in the admin and the editor allows you the full options…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Screwed admin panel
by akil50·4 years ago·1 reply
I really enjoyed this for like 30sec. I add slider to my categories, went back to category list in my admin panel and every changed category is generating sliders in my list. I cannot do ANYTHING, bc it’s covered by huge sliders. WTF?! Only fix was removing plugin form system. That’s bad!
Great
by Shahid Malik·5 years ago·1 reply
Great. Worked perfectly. Thank you sir..
Nice does what it promises!
by LogoLogics·6 years ago·1 reply
Great plugin to add styled description to the Woocommerce categories!
Thanks!
Does exactly what I needed!
by mhwallace1·6 years ago·2 replies
I’ve looked high and low for some way of placing an image at the top of Category pages. (And have gotten frustrated trying to code it myself, I’m just not to that level, yet.) I’m using only 6 Categories to break my site content into manageable sections. Part of my navigation structure includes images unique to each content Category. I need some way of having those images display at the top of each respective Category page (be it archive.php or otherwise). CategoryTinyMCE is doing exactly what I need and so far seems to be playing well with WP 5.2.4 and all the other plugins I have installed. Thank you!
This plugin cures boring category pages
by zeuspress·6 years ago·1 reply
Works great and quick help through the plugin support forum if needed.
Download Trends
Today: 9Yesterday: 16This week: 65Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 5.6.17 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.8
91.2%
v3.6
7.3%
Other
1.5%
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Changelog
3.8.3
- code tidy up and check with latest version of WordPress 5.6
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