Antony Agnel

WordPress | Blogging | Marketing | SEO

  • Start Here
  • Categories
    • General
    • WordPress
    • Blogging
    • Marketing
  • Deals
  • Bluehost Discount

Last Updated January 3, 2017 By Antony 9 Comments

How To Add Underline And Justify Text Buttons In WordPress Visual Editor

How To Add Underline And Justify Text Buttons In WordPress Visual Editor

If you have updated to WordPress 4.7, you would have already noticed the missing underline and justify buttons in the post editor. It was decided to remove them from the editor because underlining is a bad practice as readers can get it confused with links and justifying has uneven browser implementations and in many cases is bad for readability.

In case you badly miss those features from your editor, worry not. There is a way to add them back to your editor by installing a simple plugin.

Just go ahead and install the Re-add text underline and justify plugin by Brice Capobianco from WordPress.org plugin repository.

Once you have activated the plugin, go to Settings –> Writing page to configure the plugin.

Edit settings --> Writing from WP Admin

By default, the Editor style will be set to ‘Default – without underline & justify buttons’. You need to change it either to ‘Re-add underline & justify buttons’ or ‘Re-add underline & justify + rearrange’.

If you choose the first option, they will be added to the second row of post editor buttons.

If you choose the second option, the buttons will be added to the same position as they were before WordPress 4.7’s update to the Editor.

Don’t forget to hit ‘Save Changes’ before leaving else you won’t be able to view the buttons.

You can now visit Posts –> Add New page and you will be able to find underline and justify text buttons added back to the post editor.

Thus I hope this post helped you learn how to add the underline and justify buttons back to the post editor. If you liked this post, you may also want to see my tips to optimize WordPress to reduce server overload.

Like this post? Share it with your friends

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

You might also like

Filed Under: WordPress

Get More Stuff Like This

Join 6,000+ others who get my FREE weekly newsletter with WordPress & blogging tips on how to drive more traffic and revenue to your website!

Strictly no spam, unsubscribe at any time.

Antony

About Antony

Antony Agnel is a freelance web designer who works exclusively with WordPress. He enjoys helping bloggers and web designers work smarter and dedicates his time to training, tech support, and dev work. Connect with Antony on Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.

Comments

  1. હરીશ દવે (Harish Dave) says

    January 3, 2017 at 7:08 pm

    You might have taken the decision after lot of discussions and considering the feedback…but personally I am not happy with the decision. I am not sure if a light wavy underline could be an alternative…Let us see if we can do away the underline in our blog posts. Question is: How and why can a modern reader not differentiate an underline and a link?

    Reply
    • AntoAnto says

      January 3, 2017 at 7:23 pm

      The decision to remove it was taken by the WordPress Core development team. As far as I can see, this decision has got a mixed response. You can have a look at the discussion over here. Readers often get confused with underlines as links. Even I’ve been a victim of it. Many themes out there display links & underlines in the same manner.

      Reply
  2. potpourri672 says

    January 4, 2017 at 6:56 am

    Nice blog bro, really !!!! I never thought these things are so easy to do in WordPress.

    Reply
    • AntoAnto says

      January 4, 2017 at 2:31 pm

      Haha…Thanks man! Glad to hear that my posts were of some help.

      Reply
  3. Torie says

    April 24, 2017 at 2:35 pm

    Do you know how to justify if you are using WordPress.com not WordPress.org. I cannot add plugins and can’t seem to see how to justify my text now – so frustrating. Any guidance would be greatly received. Many thanks.

    Reply
  4. Torie says

    April 24, 2017 at 2:37 pm

    All sorted now in fact so no need to respond. Have a good day.

    Reply
    • AntoAnto says

      April 25, 2017 at 8:04 pm

      Hey Torie,
      Thanks for stopping by. Glad to hear that you have sorted it out by yourself. Also, it would be great if you could share with my readers on how you fixed it.

      Reply
      • Torie says

        April 25, 2017 at 10:42 pm

        Sure. As I am on WordPress.com and not WordPress.org I could only justify by pressing control, alt and J as I go along. A little frustrating but at least I can now justify.

        Reply
        • AntoAnto says

          April 27, 2017 at 6:56 am

          Wow. Thank you Torie for sharing with us the method you used to fix the issue on WordPress.com platform. I sincerely hope that it might be useful to someone who stumbles upon this page just like how you did.

          Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

My Recommendation

SiteGround Web Hosting

Recent Posts

  • WordPress Jetpack Plugin Review: Should You Use It Or Not
  • How To Build A Successful Email Marketing Campaign
  • The HTTP To HTTPS Migration Checklist
  • 5 Important Grammar Rules All Bloggers Need to Know
  • How To Enable Brotli Compression On Your WordPress Blog

Connect Online

  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Popular Posts

  • WordPress Jetpack Plugin Review: Should You Use It Or Not
  • How To Redirect Non-WWW URLs To WWW Using Cloudflare
  • How To Build A Successful Email Marketing Campaign
  • How To Switch To OpenDNS Or Google DNS On Linux Elementary OS
  • The HTTP To HTTPS Migration Checklist

Quick Links

  • Start Here
  • Start A Blog
  • Web Design Services
  • Bluehost Coupon
  • SiteGround Coupon

Disclosure

Please note that some links on this site may be affiliate links. By clicking on them you don’t pay anything extra and I make a few bucks.

Categories

  • Blogging (20)
  • Deals (14)
  • General (41)
  • Marketing (15)
  • WordPress (72)
  • About
  • Contact
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions

Copyright © 2018 Antony Agnel · Powered by WordPress + SiteGround + Cloudflare