Simple Mathjax

65 Quality Score

Active Installs

16/30

With roughly 4,000 active installs and a scoring weight above baseline, it has a modest but established user base in a narrow niche.

Update Freshness

16/25

Last updated September 2025 and tested against WordPress 6.8.5, the plugin shows active upkeep relative to its scope, though the lack of a stated PHP version requirement is a minor transparency gap.

User Rating

14/15

A 94 out of 100 average from 14 raters is excellent, though the small sample size means the score carries limited statistical weight.

Support Health

8/15

With zero support threads opened and zero resolved, there is no track record either way, which suggests either a quiet user base or an unmonitored support forum.

WP Compatibility

11/15

The plugin claims compatibility back to WordPress 3.0 and current testing on 6.8.5, indicating a very wide compatibility range, but the absence of a PHP version requirement leaves server-side compatibility unspecified.

Scores higher than 15% of indexed plugins

About

Yet another plugin to add MathJax support to your wordpress blog. Just wrap your equations inside $ signs and MathJax will render them visually.

Active Installs 4k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.7/5

Last Updated 2025-09-10 9:57am GMT

Requires WordPress 3.0+

Tested Up To 6.8.8

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Simple Mathjax loads the MathJax JavaScript library on your WordPress site so that any text wrapped in dollar signs (like $E=mc^2$) is automatically rendered as a formatted equation. It works without shortcodes, block editors, or configuration screens, making setup essentially a one-click install. The plugin is purpose-built for sites that publish LaTeX-style mathematical notation.

Who It's For

This plugin fits academic blogs, course material sites, math and physics tutoring pages, engineering documentation, and scientific journals that rely on inline or display equations written in LaTeX. It is best suited for solo authors, educators, and small research groups who want the lowest possible friction between writing markdown-like content and getting rendered math on screen. If your audience expects clean, readable equations without a learning curve, this is a reasonable pick.

Who Should Skip It

If your site has no math content, or if you write only the occasional formula and do not need a dedicated library, you should skip this and use the built-in Unicode characters instead. Sites running heavy page-speed budgets may also want a lighter alternative, since MathJax adds a noticeable script payload.

The Bottom Line

Simple Mathjax earns a 68.18 out of 100, a middling score driven by a tiny but happy user base and almost no support history. It does one thing in the simplest possible way and gets strong marks from the people who use it, which makes it a reasonable but not exceptional choice. If you want the lowest-friction path to dollar-sign math on a WordPress page and you do not anticipate needing support, it is worth trying; if you value ecosystem size or proven support response, look at MathJax-LaTeX or KaTeX first.

Related Plugins

KaTeX 65/100

Pick KaTeX if rendering speed and reduced JavaScript payload matter more to your site than MathJax's broader LaTeX feature set.

MathJax-LaTeX 54/100

Pick MathJax-LaTeX if you want a similarly named option with a larger install base (10,000) and slightly more configuration surface.