Mammoth converts semantically marked up .docx documents to simple and clean HTML, allowing pasting from Word and Google Docs without the usual mess.
As of April 2026, Mammoth .docx converter is a WordPress docx plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 62 reviews. It has been downloaded 450K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 16% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Seraphinite Post .DOCX Source.
Mammoth is designed to convert .docx documents, such as those created by Microsoft Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice, and convert them to HTML. Mammoth aims to produce simple and clean HTML by using semantic information in the document, and ignoring other details. For instance, Mammoth converts any paragraph with the style Heading1 to h1 elements, rather than attempting to exactly copy the styling (font, text size, colour, etc.) of the heading. This allows you to paste from Word documents without the usual mess.
There’s a large mismatch between the structure used by .docx and the structure of HTML, meaning that the conversion is unlikely to be perfect for more complicated documents. Mammoth works best if you only use styles to semantically mark up your document.
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Thank you for this nice peace of art!!!
This plugin was literally a lifesaver! I had to import dozens of pages of a manual with texts and photos and the function that automatically uploads the photos to the library was FUNDAMENTAL. Thank you so much!
I installed the plugin but I could not activate it!
Edit: It works now.
man you’re a genius 🙂
highly recommended Pugin if you regularly upload blogs on WordPress
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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