Is Special Text Boxes free?

Yes, Special Text Boxes is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Special Text Boxes?

Special Text Boxes has 2.0K+ active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Special Text Boxes alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Special Text Boxes include Simple Post Notes, AWEOS PHP Server Info, Contact Info Widget. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Special Text Boxes work with the latest WordPress?

Special Text Boxes has been tested up to WordPress 6.9.4. It requires WordPress 5.6+ and PHP 7.4+.

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Special Text Boxes

Name: Special Text Boxes
Rating: 3.2 (21 reviews)
Author: minimus

Highlights any portion of text as text in the colored boxes.

By minimus·Info·Free

3.2(21 reviews)

·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 month ago

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As of April 2026, Special Text Boxes is a WordPress info plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 3.2/5 rating from 21 reviews. It has been downloaded 254K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 11% this week. Top alternative: Simple Post Notes.

3.2/521 reviews

2.0K+active installs

254K+total downloads

17 yearssince 2009

Overview

Adds little style sheet file and short code to blog for highlighting some portion of text in a post as colored boxes. 7 styles are available. That may be warning, alert, info and download styled portion of the post’s text.

If you need to explore the source code of plugin, you can find it on GitHub.

Available languages:

English
Russian

If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can send .po and .mo files to me (minimus AT simplelib.com) so that I can bundle it into Special Text Boxes.

Real examples of outputs you can see on the plugin page

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Ratings & Reviews

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Recent Reviews

Was Working Well, Until it Didn’t

by Archangel76·5 months ago·1 reply

I’ve been using this plugin for many years and it did exactly what I wanted it to, until recently. After a few updates to WordPress and the improves with PHP, I can no longer type into the “Content” box of the plugin. Even eliminated all of my other plugins to test, and it still refused to work.

It’s a shame, because I really liked the visual effects of the boxes.

old-fasioned

by Nikita·1 year ago

It looks as if the plugin was developed 10 years ago and has not been updated