Highlight, redact, style, add background images and modify text blocks.
As of April 2026, Text Mutator is a WordPress redact plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Redactor.
With Text Mutator you can take that boring text to the next level!
Add emphasis with color and styles you select; add backgrounds for greater effect, redact and jumble text that shouldn’t be seen, highlight phrases that are important.
To display the results of your Text Mutator Settings, use shortcode as follows:
[text_mutator] This is the text you want to style, [/text_mutator] and this is the rest of the sentence.
Future versions will allow for different styles with shortcode options.
“Text Mutator” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
@lou-friedman :: https://profiles.wordpress.org/lou-friedman
| WordPress | 4.1+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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