Title: RichText Extension
Author: Aki Hamano
Published: <strong>Mayo 10, 2020</strong>
Last modified: Marso 3, 2026

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# RichText Extension

 By [Aki Hamano](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wildworks/)

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 * [Development](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/richtext-extension/#developers)

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## Description

RichText Extension adds useful decorating features to gutenberg rich text editor.

#### Highlighter

Draw a marker on the inline text.
 You can set the color, thickness, and opacity
of the marker to you can create various marker styles. Up to four types of settings
can be made.

#### Font size

Change inline text size.
 The size is specified as a percentage of the base font
size, and up to four types of settings can be made.

#### Underline

Create underline.
 **Note: The underline specifications have changed from version
2.0.0. Try clearing the format if existing underlines do not work.**

#### Clear format

Removes all formatting.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Setting (Highlighter)
 * [[
 * Setting (Font Size)
 * [[
 * Setting (Others)
 * [[
 * Block Toolbar (Highlighter)
 * [[
 * Block Toolbar (Font Size)

## Installation

 1. Upload the `add-richtext-toolbar-button` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the \’Plugins\’ menu in WordPress.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Handy!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/handy-114/)󠁿

 [ashf](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ashf/) Mayo 15, 2024

Another gem from AKi.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[well done …](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/well-done-659/)󠁿

 [kontur.us](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netzaufsicht/) Hunyo 22, 2021

This is by far the best approach I’ve seen so far on really adding something usable
to the WP Gutenberg Block Editor

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### 󠀁[Seriously underrated](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seriously-underrated/)󠁿

 [zandiver](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zandiver/) Mayo 12, 2021

This is a seriously underrated plugin that adds great text decoration functionality
to the Gutenberg editor.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Brilliant idea](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brilliant-idea-10/)󠁿

 [Akinola Peace olamide](https://profiles.wordpress.org/akinolapo1/) Mayo 17, 2020

Thanks so much for adding the plugin to WordPress editor

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/richtext-extension/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“RichText Extension” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Aki Hamano ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wildworks/)

“RichText Extension” has been translated into 6 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/richtext-extension/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “RichText Extension” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/richtext-extension)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/richtext-extension/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/richtext-extension/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/richtext-extension/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/richtext-extension/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 3.0.0

 * Tested to WordPress 7.0
 * Drop support for WordPress 6.8

#### 2.9.0

 * Tested to WordPress 6.9
 * Drop support for WordPress 6.6 and 6.7

#### 2.8.0

 * Tested to WordPress 6.8
 * Drop support for WordPress 6.5

#### 2.7.0

 * Tested to WordPress 6.7
 * Drop support for WordPress 6.4

#### 2.6.1

 * Add missing changelog entry

#### 2.6.0

 * Tested to WordPress 6.6
 * Drop support for WordPress 6.3

#### 2.5.0

 * Tested to WordPress 6.5
 * Drop support for WordPress 6.2
 * Fix: Can’t disable “Underline” and “Clear format” button
 * Fix: Deprecated error in PHP 8.2

#### 2.4.0

 * Tested to WordPress 6.4
 * Drop support for WordPress 6.0, 6.1

#### 2.3.0

 * Tested to WordPress 6.3
 * Add: striped style
 * Enhancement: Always show preview style on settings page
 * Enhancement: Polish icons
 * Enhancement: Polish Block Toolbar style
 * Enhancement: Polish the settings page style
 * Fix: Checkbox values are not updated when saving settings for the first time
 * Drop support for WordPress 5.9
 * Drop support for PHP 7.3

#### 2.2.0

 * Tested to WordPress 6.2
 * Enhancement: Narrow spacing between drop-down buttons
 * Enhancement: Improve accessibility on the settings page
 * Fix: Dropdown buttons are not aligned in WordPress 6.2
 * Fix: Default color schema not applied on settings page

#### 2.1.0

 * Tested to WordPress 6.1
 * Drop support for WordPress 5.6 through 5.8
 * Enhancement: Apply admin color scheme to the setting page
 * Enhancement: Polish style in the setting page
 * Doc: Update banner and screenshot

#### 2.0.0

 * Tested to WordPress 6.0
 * Change: Underline tag type
 * Doc: Add cautionary text about underline
 * Doc: Update author name

#### 1.3.0

 * Tested to WordPress 5.9

#### 1.2.3

 * Clean: update npm packages and build tool

#### 1.2.2

 * Clean: Update npm packages
 * Remove: Bundled language files

#### 1.2.1

 * Doc: Update tested up to

#### 1.2.0

 * Tested to WordPress 5.8
 * Clean: update npm packages

#### 1.1.9

 * Tested to WordPress 5.7

#### 1.1.8

 * Clean: Update deploy flow (github actions)
 * Fix: Wrong plugin version
 * Clean: update npm packages and organize development env

#### 1.1.7

 * Clean: Refactoring, Replace deprecated components with recommended ones
 * Fix: Problem about installation error in PHP 8
 * Tested to PHP 8

#### 1.1.6

 * Change: toolbar icon from dashicon to svg icon

#### 1.1.4

 * Remove: gulpfile.js
 * Clean: Update npm packages, add .wp-env, and refactor the development environment
 * Clean: Remove composer.lock and package-lock.json from .gitignore
 * Clean: Remove the compiled JS files
 * Clean: Remove the compiled CSS files
 * Update development setting
 * Add: composer
 * Delete: package-lock.json

#### 1.1.3

 * Doc: Correct a notation error in the translation

#### 1.1.2

 * Fix: metabox warning error

#### 1.1.1

 * Fix: Problem about uninstallation process

#### 1.1.0

 * Remove: activation check

#### 1.0.2

 * Fix: Problem that style is not reflected on first installation
 * Fix: Problem that preview does not switch when status is changed

#### 1.0.1

 * Update: build process
 * Update: translation

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **3.0.0**
 *  Last updated **1 bulan ago**
 *  Active installations **900+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0**
 *  PHP version ** 8.0 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/richtext-extension/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/richtext-extension/),
   [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/richtext-extension/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/richtext-extension/),
   [Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/richtext-extension/), 
   [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/richtext-extension/), and 
   [Spanish (Venezuela)](https://ve.wordpress.org/plugins/richtext-extension/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/richtext-extension)
 * Tags
 * [formatting](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/formatting/)[gutenberg](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gutenberg/)
   [highlighter](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/highlighter/)[rich text](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rich-text/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/richtext-extension/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  4 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/richtext-extension/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/richtext-extension/reviews/?filter=4)
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 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/richtext-extension/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Aki Hamano ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wildworks/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/richtext-extension/)

## Donate

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