Raw HTML
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About
Lets you use raw HTML or any other code in your posts. You can also disable smart quotes and other automatic formatting on a per-post basis.
What It Does
Raw HTML wraps page-specific content in special tags that let WordPress skip its automatic formatting, so you can drop raw HTML, CSS, or JavaScript directly into a post body without the editor mangling it. The plugin also adds a meta box to disable smart quotes and wpautop on a per-post basis, which is handy when the built-in editor keeps rewriting your carefully crafted markup.
Who It's For
This plugin fits bloggers, tutorial authors, and developers who need to publish HTML or code snippets inside individual posts without WordPress stripping tags, adding paragraph breaks, or converting quotation marks. It is especially useful on content sites where you embed interactive demos, custom landing sections, or technical samples that the default editor would otherwise break.
Who Should Skip It
If you only need to inject code sitewide in your header, footer, or functions.php, you do not need this plugin because better-suited tools like WPCode handle that with broader scope. Site owners running block-based themes with full-site editing will also find less reason to use it, since the block editor gives finer control over custom HTML without the formatting overrides Raw HTML provides.
The Bottom Line
Raw HTML does one specific job, allowing raw HTML and code inside posts while disabling WordPress formatting, and it does it with a small, current footprint and high user satisfaction. Its overall quality score of 51.25 looks low only because the scoring formula rewards scale, support volume, and modern tooling that a focused utility like this cannot match. It is worth installing if its narrow feature set is exactly what you need, but most users will be better served by WPCode or Code Snippets for broader code management.
Related Plugins
Pick WPCode when you need sitewide header, footer, or conditional snippet management with a proper editor and snippet library, rather than wrapping content inside individual posts.
WP Popular Posts is a sidebar and placement tool for surfacing popular content, not a code formatting plugin, so it only makes sense if your priority is displaying trending posts.
Code Snippets is the better choice if you want to add PHP or other functionality through reusable snippets with a GUI, rather than embedding one-off HTML inside a post body.
Advanced Editor Tools extends the Classic editor with extra buttons and configuration options, useful when you want formatting control without the wrap-and-disable model Raw HTML uses.
GenerateBlocks is a block-based page builder for designing layouts visually, making it the stronger pick if you want to construct custom designs without touching raw HTML at all.