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WordPress 4.8 introduced the visual editor to the Text Widget, but in doing so remove the checkbox to add paragraphs. Whilst this is backwardly compatible, as soon as you edit the text widget the paragraph tag is introduced. This can have disastrous impact to your design and break scripts that have blank lines. Also, the visual editor if used will remove code it thinks is invalid, including empty tags, which is also a bit problem. By default this plugin also turns off the visual editor. There is a setting added to settings>general that allows you to turn on the visual editor. You can also turn it back on by adding define (‘VISUAL_TEXT_WIDGET’,true); to your wp-config.php. Defining VISUAL_TEXT_WIDGET to true or false remove the setting option from settings>general so you can hide the option. If installed pre 4.8 the plugin will do nothing, not even a warning, so you can install this before a 4.8 upgrade and things should be better. Of course upgrading is your responsibility and always take a backup. Version: 1.6 only : WordPress 4.8.1 ( currently in beta ) has introduced a legacy mode that makes this plugin redundant, so if the WordPress version is greater than 4.8 the plugin does nothing and is silent. You may safely remove it if you are on 4.8.1 or above....
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- Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
- Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
- No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found no PHP error while activating this plugin on our server
- No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
- Latest PHP 7.2.16 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
- Latest WordPress 5.2.4 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
- Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
- No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
- No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
- Frequently updated The plugin was not updated at least once in the last 90 days
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Total Downloads
800
Active Installation
5 years
On WordPress
0.0%
Growth Rate
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Support Thread
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About Add Paragraphs Option to Text Widget
Description
WordPress 4.8 introduced the visual editor to the Text Widget, but in doing so remove the checkbox to add paragraphs. Whilst this is backwardly compatible, as soon as you edit the text widget the paragraph tag is introduced. This can have disastrous impact to your design and break scripts that have blank lines. Also, the visual editor if used will....
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Memory Usage
- Average memory usage is -12.81 KB
- This is less than 99% plugins
Page Speed
- Average page loading time is increased by 0.01 s
- This is faster than 99% plugins
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- Before plugin activation
- After plugin activation
Pages
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Average Change
+ 0.01s
/(front page)
- 0.03s
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 0.05s
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 0.08s
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 0.04s
/wp-admin/index.php
- 0.06s
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 0.04s
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 0.05s
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
- 0.03s
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 0.2s
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 0.09s
/wp-admin/upload.php
- 0.34s
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Memory Usage Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data
- Before plugin activation
- After plugin activation
Pages
Benchmark
Change
Average Change
- 12.81KB
/ (front page)
- 8.53KB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 0.09KB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 0.23KB
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 0.24KB
/wp-admin/index.php
+ 0.24KB
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 0.12KB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 0.16KB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
- 11.58KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 1.08KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 0.23KB
/wp-admin/upload.php
+ 0.1KB
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Frequently Updated
- The plugin has not been updated in the last 90 days.
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