10 Best Visual Editor Custom Buttons Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Visual Editor Custom Buttons has 4,000+ 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 Visual Editor Custom Buttons
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Widget Content Blocks
Closest match4.8 (60) 10,000+ active installsEdit widget content using the default WordPress visual editor and media uploading functionality. Create widgets like you would create posts or pages.
Shares the visual editor tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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4.7 (69) 20,000+ active installsA visual way to add CSS buttons in the rich text editor and to your themes.
Shares the visual editor tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since November 4, 2024.
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4.7 (113) 30,000+ active installsSimple and smart companion that allows you to insert sections into any existing page, create landing pages or entire websites including header and foo …
Shares the visual editor tag on WordPress.org. About 7.5 times the installs, no update since March 24, 2025.
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Zion Builder – Website Builder for Speed & Creativity
4.4 (30) 1,000+ active installsBuilding websites just got easier! Zion Builder is a visual website builder with powerful design features to help you build interactive websites.
Shares the visual editor tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated January 22, 2026.
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4.6 (24) 4,000+ active installsArconix Shortcodes provides a number of useful design elements like buttons, boxes, tabs and toggles to help compliment any website.
Shares the buttons tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated July 30, 2026.
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5.0 (23) 4,000+ active installsWordpress plugin to add shortcodes for Twitter Bootstrap 3.3
Shares the buttons tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated March 10, 2026.
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4.0 (28) 9,000+ active installsEasy Media Download allows you to embed download buttons on your WordPress site. Add file download functionality with this WordPress download plugin.
Shares the buttons tag on WordPress.org. About 2.3 times the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
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4.0 (159) 40,000+ active installsTake complete control over the WordPress content editor.
Shares the buttons tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since October 15, 2018.
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4.5 (40) 10,000+ active installsFlexible button creator allowing you to stick floating buttons to the side of your site.
Shares the buttons tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, no update since July 2, 2025.
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5.0 (319) 9,000+ active installsAdds professionally looking "-" and "+" quantity increment buttons around product quantity field on WooCommerce pages.
Shares the buttons tag on WordPress.org. About 2.3 times the installs, no update since August 21, 2020.
Switching from Visual Editor Custom Buttons: common questions
What is the best alternative to Visual Editor Custom Buttons?
Widget Content Blocks is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Visual Editor Custom Buttons alternative has the most users?
WP Edit, with 40,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Visual Editor Custom Buttons alternative is rated highest?
Qty Increment Buttons for WooCommerce, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 319 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Visual Editor Custom Buttons 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 Visual Editor Custom Buttons 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 Visual Editor Custom Buttons 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
Widget Content Blocks is the closest match to Visual Editor Custom Buttons by the data we track, and WP Edit has the widest reach with 40,000+ active installs. Easy Media Download shipped the most recent release, on August 23, 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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