Grade B

Re-add text underline and justify

Name: Re-add text underline and justify
Rating: 4.7 (26 reviews)
Author: Brice Capobianco

⤓ Download v0.4.2 on WordPress.org ↗

by Brice Capobiancoupdated 2025-11-30😴The Napper

A nostalgic fix for those who refuse to leave the classic editor.

HealthyGrowing

72/100

It restores classic editor buttons but fails to work with the modern Gutenberg block editor.

Loved26/40

Trustworthy11/15

Fair & Honest14/15

Maintained9/18

Momentum12/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

Show the snippet

add_filter( 'mce_buttons', function( $buttons ) {
    // Add underline and justify buttons to the first TinyMCE toolbar row
    $buttons[] = 'underline';
    $buttons[] = 'justifyfull';
    return $buttons;
} );

Keep in mind:The plugin also offers a settings page with three toolbar style options; this snippet always applies the full underline and justify option.

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Active installs

~55,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+

→ on track for 60k+in ~2 months

Rating

4.7★

26 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+60%

Growing fast

64 → 103 installs/day

What to watch out for

MINORnot updated in 6 months

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Growing fast · +60% in the last year

64/day a year ago→103/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Re-add text underline and justify is a well-liked, lightweight plugin that restores formatting buttons WordPress removed from its editor, though it has stopped working for users on the Gutenberg block editor.

What people like

+Restores justify and underline buttons that WordPress removed from its classic editor, solving a real workflow problem for users×10
+Works correctly when used alongside the classic editor or with Gutenberg disabled×3

Common complaints

−Does not work with the Gutenberg block editor; settings have no effect (since 6.9)
−Reported as completely non-functional by at least one user, with no explanation of context

Review trustMostly organic

4.65★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
12%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2025-04-102025-11-062026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 26 total

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Latest reviews · 26 analyzed

2025-12-13★★★★★It doesn't work frkotou
2025-03-29★★★★★It just works!meylodie
2019-10-13★★★★★USELESS kylemaccs
2018-11-15★★★★★Good Job lucas86sampaio
2017-10-04★★★★★Thanks to help fight back the absurdity!Torgut
2017-07-02★★★★★It was stupid of WordPress to remove them in the first place.fastpuppy
2017-05-31★★★★★Nice !IljaZu
2017-04-01★★★★★Works.Patrik
2017-02-19★★★★★Works Fine Jithin Johny Geogre
2017-02-19★★★★★Works, thank you.CyberCobre

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2025-11-30v0.4.2
2024-03-07v0.4.1
2022-10-24v0.4
2019-11-14v0.3
2018-09-04v0.2
2017-03-31v0.1.4
2017-01-14v0.1.3
2016-11-14v0.1.2

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

115

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

126

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

+17.3%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

50%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

2.55

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

92%

5★ share in analyzed sample

12%

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.69 → 4.65★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered