Classic Editor
slug: classic-editor
WordPress plugin by WordPress.org · detected on 1132 sites in our index (21.25% 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 5,328 sites — appearing on roughly 21.25% 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 · 332 sites
- Contact Form 744% of Classic Editor sites · 221 sites
- Redirection44% of Classic Editor sites · 221 sites
- Yoast Duplicate Post36% of Classic Editor sites · 181 sites
- WordPress Importer33% of Classic Editor sites · 167 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.
- atlex.ruCarrington Blueprint · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- cohesity.comcohesity_new · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- ppic.orgPPIC · Pantheon · scanned 2026-05-22
- univ-rouen.frUniversité de Rouen · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- atomicorp.comMesh Child · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- denikn.czDN 2 CZ · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- visitphilly.comvisitphilly · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- macalester.eduMacalester 2020 Child Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- latestmodapks.comLatestModApks.com · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- stylemixthemes.comCodefusion · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- redbutton.dejupiter · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- bigfooty.comavada · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
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.