Preserves white space and developer edits in HTML AND WYSIWYG tab. Supports inline scripts/css, JavaScript code blocks and HTML5 content editing
As of April 2026, Preserved HTML Editor Markup is a WordPress html plugin with 700 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 42 reviews. It has been downloaded 40K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Shortcoder — Create Shortcodes for….
This plugin preserves the user-generated HTML markup in the TinyMCE editor. Unlike other plugins this one allows developers to work in the HTML tab AND end-users to work in the WYSIWYG Visual tab at the same time! No longer will your HTML markup be completely munged into an unrecognizable form when you switch between those tabs. And you don’t have to hang your users/editors out to dry when you hand off the project with a disabled Visual tab.
(One user didn’t read or follow these steps and panicked thinking I ruined their website.)
It also supports HTML5 Block Anchor tags in addition to other HT…
| WordPress | 3.2.1+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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