Forces the WordPress editor to paste everything as plain text.
As of April 2026, Paste as Plain Text is a WordPress paste plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 25% this week. Top alternative: Mammoth .docx converter.
Forces the WordPress editor to paste everything as plain text.
It works as it described yet it doesn’t work on WordPress’ Guttenberg editor. I hope the developer see this review.
Added to a company intranet site. Works great when pasting content from Google docs/sheets
Gets rid of the pesky problem of unexpected erroneous tags in the post content. No more explaining to do. Thanks!
I really like this plugin. It helps to keep things clean and avoid all the fuzz that comes with pasting text from Word and other text editing tools.
This plugin does exactly what it is supposed to, and is very readable code. Thanks for your hard work!
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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