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GF HTML Area Editor WP Registry grade A. No security issues foundWP RegistryNo security issues foundOpen the reportA

Adds a rich text editor (TinyMCE) to the Gravity Forms HTML field content setting, replacing the default plain textarea.

★ 2stars
55release downloads
677composer installs
1.0.1latest · 9mo ago

Install

Download gf-html-area-editor.zip From the 1.0.1 release on GitHub, Jan 20, 2026

Upload it under Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin, then activate.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/soderlind/gf-html-area-editor/releases/download/1.0.1/gf-html-area-editor.zip

On Packagist as soderlind/gf-html-area-editor:

composer require soderlind/gf-html-area-editor
Updates itself. It ships its own updater (Plugin Update Checker), so new versions appear under Dashboard → Updates.

Adds a rich text editor (TinyMCE) to the Gravity Forms HTML field content setting, replacing the default plain textarea.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ee62e2e2-93f9-4591-afa3-cfd35fd17d9e

Description

By default, Gravity Forms provides a plain textarea for entering content in HTML fields. This plugin enhances that experience by replacing the textarea with the WordPress visual editor (TinyMCE), allowing you to:

  • Use a familiar WYSIWYG interface for formatting content
  • Easily add bold, italic, lists, and other formatting
  • Insert links with the built-in link dialog
  • Add images from the WordPress Media Library
  • Switch between Visual and Text (HTML) modes

Requirements

  • WordPress 5.0 or higher
  • Gravity Forms 2.5 or higher
  • PHP 7.4 or higher

Installation

  1. Download gf-html-area-editor.zip
  2. Upload via Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
  3. Activate via WordPress Admin → Plugins

Plugin updates are handled automatically via GitHub. No need to manually download and install updates.

Usage

  1. Navigate to Forms → Edit Form in your WordPress admin
  2. Add or select an HTML field
  3. In the field settings, you'll see a rich text editor instead of the plain textarea
  4. Use the Visual tab for WYSIWYG editing or the Text tab for raw HTML
  5. Content is automatically saved and sanitized when displayed on the frontend

Security

The plugin sanitizes all HTML field content on the frontend using WordPress's wp_kses() function. The following HTML elements are allowed:

  • Text formatting: <p>, <br>, <strong>, <b>, <em>, <i>
  • Headings: <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>
  • Lists: <ul>, <ol>, <li>
  • Links: <a> (with href, title, target, rel attributes)
  • Images: <img> (with src, alt, title, width, height, class attributes)

Development

Running Tests

# PHP tests
composer install
composer test

# JavaScript tests
npm install
npm run test:js

Credits

Inspiered by the work of Gravity Wiz- Rich Text HTML Fields.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later

Releases

5 releases. Each count is every asset in that release; expand a row for the breakdown.

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A grade

Security

GF HTML Area Editor 1.0.1 · audited by WP Registry

No security issues found.

Audited release
1.0.1
Findings
none
Worst severity
—
Content hash
68d4826be1c37f60d8372cd9…

WP Registry hashes the installable build and reports on that exact bytes-for-bytes copy. Embargoed findings are withheld until they are disclosed, so a clean verdict means nothing public is outstanding. WP Manifest does not audit code itself.