Paste As Plain Text By Default
Enable paste as text by default with one click in editors like Classic Editor, Divi, Elementor, Beaver Builder and WPBakery.
5(9 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Paste As Plain Text By Default is a WordPress tinyMCE plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Downloads are up 12% this week. Top alternative: Black Studio TinyMCE Widget.
5/59 reviews
1.0K+active installs
8.2K+total downloads
5 yearssince 2021
Overview
Enable paste as text by default with one click in editors like Classic Editor, Divi (Divi 5 included), Elementor, Beaver Builder, WPBakery and WPUF (but not in Gutenberg).
No more unwanted formatting issues or junk code when copying and pasting text into your WordPress editor. Paste content from pdf documents, emails or other websites without importing colors and font stylings that don’t match your overall design.
Consistent Design
No risk of importing mismatching colors, fonts or other styles when copying & pasting content.
Clean Code
Avoid unnecessary code on your website that could slow down your loading time and break the design.
Fast Editing
No need for custom hacks with keyboard shortcuts, cleaning your text in Notepad or repeatedly clicking the T icon.
Compatibility
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Perfect!
by ANDiTKO·1 month ago·1 reply
Exactly what I needed. Easy install and setup. It allowed me to have plain text paste by default so my client won’t get messy code from pasting pre-formatted content. Especially from vendor’s PDF files it can break your theme/design and your page HTML code. A Must have wordpress plugin!
Absolutely great
by Espace66·2 years ago·1 reply
Absolutely great plugin. Started using it the other day, will install it on all my Divi sites. Very simple, very effective. I always use plain text for pasting, and having to click the plain text icon (and removing the very annoying Divi message about… using plain text mode!) definitely makes you smile.
Should be WP default function.
Excellent and much needed!
by kattouf·2 years ago·1 reply
I had to do so much clean up after my writers pasting gmail and word docs. This is a great find! thanks for making it!
Awesome and very useful
by panon·2 years ago·2 replies
Great plugin. It, literally, saves you time (and eye ache some times)!!!
Simple yet essential
by argosmedia·2 years ago·2 replies
A simple yet essential plugin. I use it on all of my sites. Thank you!
Download Trends
Today: 6Yesterday: 7This week: 38Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.1
- Fix: Paste as text was not enabled on rare occasions in the Divi Visual Builder
- Improvement: Code optimization
Contributors
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