TinyMCE Custom Styles
Enhance TinyMCE visual editor with a dedicated stylesheet, a stylesheet shared with the frontend, and custom styles in the Formats dropdown.
3.9(15 reviews)
·8.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, TinyMCE Custom Styles is a WordPress style plugin with 8.0K+ active installations and a 3.9/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 120K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 31% this week. Top alternative: WP Add Custom CSS.
3.9/515 reviews
8.0K+active installs
120K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Please someone take over maintaining this plugin, or it will get abandoned – with over 9.000 active installations.
I’m now 69 and although retired, all my time is taken up with other projects, while I still have the energy for them. Why you might want to take it over? It’s really useful:
Make your editing experience as simple and good as possible by improving the way you work with the TinyMCE visual editor (including Gutenberg Classic block). This plugin adds custom CSS file(s) to the frontend and to the TinyMCE editor; and it allows you to populate TinyMCE’s ‘Formats’ dropdown with your own styles. The features in more detail:
1. Installs two CSS stylesheet files into your chosen location (so you can still do updates of the active theme and this plugin…
Ratings & Reviews
3.915 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Not working any longer
by Sea Jay·8 months ago
I’m sad to report that activating this plugin now blocks content from appearing in the TinyMCE classic editor.
Works Perfectly!
by freeks·3 years ago
I’m using ACF plugin and was struggling to update the TinyMCE style on my WordPress site until I came across this plugin. It’s a fantastic tool that makes the process so much simpler and faster.
Great Plugin
by mattinventive·3 years ago·1 reply
Just works! 🙂
WORKING FINALLY
by HairyPotter·4 years ago·12 replies
Styles were never called.
But I am changing the review to 5 stars because the author helped me to go thru the problems until they were solved.
- This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by HairyPotter.
Works Great
by AppWT LLC - Tony Paris·5 years ago·1 reply
It was not playing nice with another plugin, but after a few tweaks I found the conflict and this is very nice coding. Thank you!
Download Trends
Today: 17Yesterday: 19This week: 117Period total: 8K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
90.4%
v1.0
9.6%
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Changelog
1.1.5 (2023-08-05)
- Security – Overzealous sanitization relaxed to allow “/” in directory path input
Contributors
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