WordPress Text Editor: How to add more options to the Text Editor

How to add a more options to the WordPress Text Editor.

The default WordPress text editor gives you some basic editing tools for the content of your pages and posts. But if you are NOT technical and don’t know how to write CSS code to modify your theme, you may need some more options on the text editor to help you out.

These may include:

To re-size text in your pages
To change the font-family or font-style
To insert a YouTube video
A Horizontal line
A table
Anchor text
Dummy text
An email link
Line break
Emotions

To do this is fairly easy. You can add one of the following plugins.

We have recommended a few just in case one of the following plugins do not work. Sometimes other plugins or your WordPress theme may conflict.

Ultimate TinyMCE

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-tinymce/

Ultimate Tinymce WordPress

This plugin is great!
My first choice
Simply install it
Activate
Go to the Ultimate TinyMCE Panel
Select the icons you want to add to your toolbar
Select a new row (this stops the text editor to be over crowded)
Save
When you go into a page or post you will see the new tools on your WordPress text editor

TinyMCE Advanced

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

TinyMCE Advanced

Install

Activate
Go to the TinyMCE Advanced Panel
Drag and drop the icons you want to add to your toolbar
Save
The new tools will be placed on your WordPress text editor

WP Editor

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-editor/

wp-editor-wordpress

Install

Activate
Go to the WP Editor Panel
Drag and drop the icons from the right to the left
Save
The new tools will be placed on your WordPress text editor

This text editor works great with the WP Smushit Plugin.
Unfortunately the other text editor plugins don’t work with WP Smushit.

Black Studio TinyMCE Widget

https://wordpress.org/plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/

Black Studio TinyMCE is an excellent plugin as it allows you to have all your WordPress Text Editor tools inside a widget.
Making your life easier, as without it you would have to write HTML code to add to a plain text widget.
This plugin gives you all the same text editor tools that you have inside a page and a post but inside a widget. See image below.