10 Best Toggle wpautop Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Toggle wpautop has 9,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Toggle wpautop
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Advanced Excerpt
Closest match4.3 (101) 80,000+ active installsControl the appearance of WordPress post excerpts
Shares the excerpt, formatting tags on WordPress.org. About 8.9 times the installs, last updated August 1, 2026.
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4.2 (36) 3,000+ active installsPreserves HTML and developer edits in HTML AND WYSIWYG tab. Supports inline scripts/css, JavaScript code blocks and HTML5 content editing
Shares the editor, wpautop tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since December 11, 2019.
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4.6 (65) 9,000+ active installsAdjust an image's margins and border with ease in the Visual editor.
Shares the editor, formatting tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since February 10, 2018.
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Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg
4.8 (20) 3,000+ active installsAdditional tools for rich text fields in Gutenberg.
Shares the editor, formatting tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since February 27, 2019.
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4.8 (31) 2,000+ active installsAdds shortcodes to display the content of a post or a list of posts.
Shares the post content tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since April 3, 2018.
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5.0 (42) 600+ active installsPreserves white space and developer edits in HTML AND WYSIWYG tab. Supports inline scripts/css, JavaScript code blocks and HTML5 content editing
Shares the editor, wpautop tags on WordPress.org. 600+ installs against 9,000+, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.5 (151) 6,000+ active installsAuto Excerpt for your posts on home, search and archive pages. Customize Read More button and thumbnail image. Easy to configure and have a lot of opt …
Shares the excerpt tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since April 16, 2024.
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4.3 (33) 10,000+ active installsLets you use raw HTML or any other code in your posts. You can also disable smart quotes and other automatic formatting on a per-post basis.
Shares the formatting tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since November 11, 2024.
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5.0 (20) 2,000+ active installsAdds two buttons to the TinyMCE editor to enable writing text in Left to Right (LTR) and Right to Left (RTL) directions.
Shares the formatting tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.6 (40) 2,000+ active installsAllows post authors to easily add and manage footnotes in posts and pages.
Shares the formatting tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 23 days ago.
Switching from Toggle wpautop: common questions
What is the best alternative to Toggle wpautop?
Advanced Excerpt is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 80,000+ active installs with a 4.3 out of 5 rating.
Which Toggle wpautop alternative has the most users?
Advanced Excerpt, with 80,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Toggle wpautop alternative is rated highest?
Advanced Image Styles, rated 4.6 out of 5 by 65 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Toggle wpautop alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Toggle wpautop score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Toggle wpautop on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Advanced Excerpt is the closest match to Toggle wpautop by the data we track, and Advanced Excerpt has the widest reach with 80,000+ active installs. Footnotes Made Easy shipped the most recent release, on August 15, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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