Theme Editor allows you to edit theme files, create folder, upload files and remove any file and folder in themes and plugins.
As of April 2026, Theme Editor is a WordPress wp plugin with 50K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 127 reviews. It has been downloaded 891K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.4+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 82% this week. Top alternative: Hide Title.
Have found it useful when creating new plugins
Saved me alot of headache
Massive thanks to the dev team for maintaining this.
this plugin saves me a lot of time.
1.) This editor copied PHP from one plugin to another without me knowing. Totally overwrote the code of one of my plugin files without me knowing! All of a sudden my plugin menu started registering two plugins with the same name, and I looked, and one, the contents of the main file had been copied over from a totally different plugin!
2.) This cost me almost 8 hours of troubleshooting because it defaults to silently removing version numbers from theme CSS files, which I use in my theme. Made it impossible to update the css on my site without manually clearing my browser cache every single time. I lost a whole night on this!
3.) Not that big a deal, but nice idea to have a themeable editor but not if you can’t preview the themes and have to keep tediously flipping between tabs to see what they look like. Also not if mosty of them are pretty ugly.
| WordPress | 3.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
= 3.2 (19th Mar, 2026)
= 3.1 (15th Oct, 2025)
= 3.0 (10th Jun, 2025)
= 2.9 (27th Aug, 2024)
= 2.8 (1st Dec, 2023)
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