Classic Editor
slug: classic-editor
WordPress plugin by WordPress.org · detected on 1148 sites in our index (21.17% of WordPress sites scanned)
Enables the previous "classic" editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports all plugins that extend this screen.
Where Classic Editor sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
Classic Editor is the #5 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,424 sites, appearing on roughly 21.17% of WordPress sites we've fingerprinted. Most sites running Classic Editor are hosted on Pantheon (88% of identified hosts). The most common companion plugin is Yoast SEO: Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI, present on 66% of Classic Editor sites. The most frequent theme is RetroTube.
Every data point here comes from actual scans of public WordPress sites, not vendor case studies or curated showcases. We don't accept submissions; everything you see is detected automatically when a site is scanned through the tool.
Plugins commonly used with Classic Editor
From co-occurrence analysis across sites running Classic Editor in our index.
- Yoast SEO: Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI66% of Classic Editor sites · 331 sites
- Contact Form 744% of Classic Editor sites · 221 sites
- Redirection44% of Classic Editor sites · 220 sites
- Yoast Duplicate Post36% of Classic Editor sites · 181 sites
- WordPress Importer33% of Classic Editor sites · 166 sites
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection31% of Classic Editor sites · 156 sites
- WP Super Cache30% of Classic Editor sites · 152 sites
- WP Mail SMTP by WPForms: The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin30% of Classic Editor sites · 150 sites
Themes commonly running Classic Editor
Top themes on sites using this plugin.
- RetroTube3% of Classic Editor sites · 24 sites
- unified2% of Classic Editor sites · 18 sites
- GeneratePress1% of Classic Editor sites · 10 sites
- UltimaTube1% of Classic Editor sites · 10 sites
- VULKAN1% of Classic Editor sites · 10 sites
- GeneratePress Child1% of Classic Editor sites · 8 sites
Hosting providers running Classic Editor
Limited to sites where we identified the hosting provider.
- Pantheon88% · 44 sites
- Flywheel10% · 5 sites
- WordPress.com2% · 1 site
Sites using Classic Editor
Most-recently-scanned sites detected with this plugin.
- copernicuscenter.orgCoWorker · host unknown · scanned 2026-08-20
- authorlindanelson.comWoodmart · host unknown · scanned 2026-08-14
- pselaw.comThe7 · host unknown · scanned 2026-08-13
- raadcenter.orgRAAD Center · host unknown · scanned 2026-08-09
- acethehimalaya.comacethehimalaya · host unknown · scanned 2026-08-07
- 8am.mediaJNews · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-29
- aquadigitizing.comaquadigitizing · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-27
- buymegadrugsonline.comFlatsome · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-22
- psychedelicsalesaustralia.comSublime · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-22
- sorakaro.comNomina · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-05
- detikpublik.comnomina · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-02
- metroonenews.comNewkarma · host unknown · scanned 2026-07-02
How we detect Classic Editor
Five-vector detection: /wp-content/plugins/classic-editor/ asset paths, /wp-json/ REST API namespaces, HTML signature patterns, sitemap XML comments, and asset-probe HEAD requests against the top-100 popular plugins on wordpress.org. Each detected plugin carries provenance pills showing which sources corroborated it; cross-vector matches indicate high-confidence detections. More on how detection works.
Data comes from real-time scans of public WordPress sites, not vendor case studies or curated showcases. Every claim on this page traces back to a specific detection in our scan corpus, observable via our methodology. Affiliate links are disclosed per the affiliate disclosure.