This tiny plugin re-adds the Editor text underline & text justify buttons in the WYSIWYG removed in WordPress 4.7.0
As of April 2026, Re-add text underline and justify is a WordPress editor plugin with 50K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 26 reviews. It has been downloaded 541K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 5.5.12+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Elementor Website Builder – more than….
Works well with the Classic Editor plugin, Advanced Custom Fields (Free & Pro) and is also compatible with the Gutenberg’s “Classic” bloc.
In WordPress 4.7, the core developper team decided to make various changes in the editor (TinyMce WYSIWYG), including removing the underline and justify buttons and rearranging some of the toolbar buttons.
If you don’t want to change the way you edit your content and/or don’t want to confuse your customers with a new contribution interface, this very lightweight plugin will set the editor style back to its previous state (like in WordPress 4.6 and above versions).
You may change the Editor style from the Writing option page.
3 options are available for the Editor style:
It doesn’t work in 6.9 with Gutenberg editor. The settings don’t affect anything.
I have installed it in two WordPress multisites and activated it on both. My WP versions are the latest stable ones : 6.7.2.
I use “Disable Gutenberg”, as I am still unable to write a pages or a post using this method. (Nooo way !!!)
And this Justify and Underline feature for the editor works just fine!
Many thanks!
completely useless. does not work
Muito Bom!
Thanks for helping the community to stay safe from the silly decisions of the dictators who provide us this great tool which ins WordPress. It would be great that for each silly decision someone would come out with a way to block it.
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.5.12+ required |
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