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Upgrade coordination for modules providing CKEditor 4 plugins

Last updated on
22 April 2024

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General advice

See https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/installation/getting-started/migration-from-ckeditor-4.html.

For determining CKEditor 5 equivalents of CKEditor 4 plugins, see the CKEditor 4 plugin equivalents page. You can also search npm for ckeditor5-plugin.

Modules with CKEditor 4 plugins

🏁 Done

(alphabetically ordered)

Drupal module CKEditor 4 plugin CKEditor 5 plugin Status + issue or note Automatic upgrade path Usage (2022-09-18)
CKEditor Accordion custom custom 🏁 since 2.0.0 (issue: #3312635: CKEditor 5 readiness) ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests ~11,000
CKEditor BiDi Buttons official contributed 🏁 since 4.0.0 #3312442: [PP-1] Make ready for CKEditor 5 ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests ~2,000
CKEditor CodeSnippet official official 🏁 included with Drupal core, automatic upgrade path: #3356929: Provide an upgrade path from "codesnippet" contrib CKEditor 4 plugin to "CodeBlock" core CKEditor 5 plugin ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests ~2,800
CKEditor CodeTag official official 🏁 included with Drupal core, automatic upgrade path: #3274278: Migrate "codetag" contrib CKEditor 4 plugin to built-in equivalent in core's CKEditor 5 ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests ~450
CKEditor Details Accordion customized but official origin custom 🏁 since 2.1.0-alpha1 #3315791: CKEditor 5 compatability ✅ no need ~800
CKEditor Find/Replace official official 🏁 since 2.0.0-beta1 #3312842: CKEditor 5/D10 compatibility ✅ yes, 🟡 without tests ~1,500
CKEditor Font Size & Family official official 🏁 since 2.0.0-beta3 #3239667: Drupal 10 & CKEditor 5 readiness ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests ~18,000
CKEditor Non-breaking space Plugin custom custom 🏁 since 2.2 (issue: #3277174: CKEditor 5 compatibility) ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests ~1,500
CodeMirror contributed contributed

🏁 since 3.0.0-beta3 (issue: #3243437: Add CodeMirror support for CKEditor 5)

 ✅ yes, 🟡 without tests ~9,500
Editor Advanced Image custom custom 🏁 since 2.1.0 #3333406: CKEditor 5 compatibility ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests ~1,700
Editor Advanced link N/A custom 🏁 since 2.1.1 #3232052: Drupal 10 & CKEditor 5 readiness ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests ~80,000
Entity Embed custom custom 🏁 since 1.5 #3272732: Drupal 10 & CKEditor 5 readiness ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests ~70,000
IMCE custom custom 🏁 since 3.0.0 (issue: #3293130: CKEditor 5 integration) ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests

~57,000
Linkit custom custom 🏁 since 6.0.0-beta4 #3232190: CKEditor 5 readiness ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests ~85,000
MaxLength N/A N/A

🏁 since 2.1.0 #3267413: Countdown not working for ckeditor5

 ✅ yes, 🟢 with tests ~36,000
Media Directories N/A N/A 🏁 Alters the entity_embed dialog, so works after installing Entity Embed >=1.5. N/A ~3,300
Onomasticon N/A N/A

🏁 since 2.1.0 #3336231: CKEditor 5 Support

 ✅ yes, 🟡 without tests ~200
Token Filter custom custom

🏁 since 2.1.0

 N/A ~30,000
USWDS Ckeditor Integration custom (multiple) NA

🏁 since 2.0.0

 ✅ yes, 🟡 without tests ~70

🪦 Obsolete

(alphabetically ordered)

Drupal module CKEditor 4 plugin CKEditor 5 plugin Status + issue or note Automatic upgrade path Usage (2022-09-18)
CKEditor Fixed Toolbar custom N/A 🪦 obsolete with CKEditor 5, see #3314819-2: CKEditor 5 readiness N/A ~15
CKEditor List Style custom official 🪦 part of Drupal core: #3274635: [upstream] Use CKEditor 5's native <ol type> and <ul type> UX #3326957: Make ckeditor_liststyle compatible with ckeditor5 ~3,000
CKEditor Table Resize official N/A 🪦 obsolete with CKEditor 5, see the warning message in the description. N/A ~325
CKEditor Table Selection official N/A 🪦 obsolete with CKEditor 5, see the warning message in the description. N/A ~929
CKEditor Upload Image official (multiple) and customised N/A 🪦 obsolete with CKEditor 5: Drupal core's CKEditor 5 image uploading integration now uses the default upload experience!. N/A ~2800

🙏 Ready for testing

(ordered by most usage first)

Drupal module CKEditor 4 plugin CKEditor 5 plugin Status + issue or note Automatic upgrade path Usage (2022-09-18)
Font Awesome Icons custom TBD #3274028: CKEditor 5 compatibility — new module providing better-than-before UX: ckeditor5_icons available for testing ~40,000
Video embed WYSIWYG (submodule of Video embed field) custom custom #3311063: Add support for Ckeditor 5 (get Video Embed Wysiwyg back) ✅ yes

~124k for the main module, but probably far less use the submodule
Inline Responsive Images custom custom #3317804: Compatibility with CKEditor5 (default in D10 core) ✅ no need (still to be tested) ~4,500
CKEditor mentions official custom #3309677: CKEditor mentions compatible with CKEditor 5 ❌ no

~130

💪 TODO

(ordered by most usage first)

Drupal module CKEditor 4 plugin CKEditor 5 plugin Status + issue or note Usage (2022-09-18)
Editor File upload custom custom

#3232053: Drupal 10 & CKEditor 5 readiness

 ~31,000
Anchor Link official TBD #3206676: Start a 3.0.x branch for CKEditor Anchor Link for semantic versioning and better integration with Drupal 10, CKEditor 5, and LinkIt ~28,000
CKEditor Color Button official #3297106: ckeditor_font merging with ckeditor5_font, colorbutton ~24,000
CKEditor FakeObjects official #3262037: Plan what's needed for ckeditor 5 in Drupal 9.3+ / Drupal 10 ~24,000
CKEditor Embed Plugin all official: embed + embedsemantic + autoembed official #3341750: CKEditor 5 support? ~16,000
CKEditor Templates official (same as "Wysiwyg API templates" module) TBD #3273358: CKEditor 5 support for Content Templates ~13,500
Paragraphs Features custom TBD #3368047: CKEditor 5 compatibility ~12,000
CKEditor Entity Link custom TBD #3312523: CKEditor 5 support: merge with Linkit? ~5,000
CKEditor Iframe official TBD #3314483: Add support for CKEditor 5 ~5,000
Insert N/A N/A #3314446: CKEditor 5 compatibility ~4,500
CKEditor custom config N/A N/A #3310751: What is this module's future with CKEditor 5?(but if you used it only for image2_disableResizer = true, it's now in core!) ~4,300
CKEditor Bootstrap Buttons #3308035: Drupal 10 & CKEditor 5 Support ~4,000
URL Embed custom TBD #3316376: CKEditor 5 Support ~3,800
CKEditor Templates UI N/A N/A Depends on how CKEditor Templates goes. ~3,000
WYSIWYG API Template official (same as "CKEditor Templates" module) TBD #3264254: Drupal 10 and ckeditor5 compatibility ~2,500

CKEditor Bootstrap Grid

 Not started. ~2,000

CKEditor Widgets Bootstrap Grid

 custom TBD #3356334: Ckeditor 5 Compliant ~2,000
CKEditor Div Manager official #3322722: CKEditor 5 Compatibility ~2,000
CKEditor Height custom TBD #3274041: Create a D10 / CKEditor 5 version of ckeditorheight, OR better go CORE ~1,700
Footnotes official TBD #3252524: Support for ckeditor 5 ~1,600
CKEditor Abbreviation custom TBD #3321934: Migrate to CKEditor 5 for Drupal 9.4+ / Drupal 10 ~1500
CKEditor Bootstrap Table No issue added yet ~1,200
Views Entity Embed custom TBD #3307775: CKEditor 5 support ~1,200

CKEditor Table of Contents

 custom official #3362080: Compatibility with ckeditor5 ~1,000
Collapse Text custom TBD

#3331979: Not compatible with CKEditor 5

~800
Video Filter custom custom

#3307596: Add a CKEditor5 plugin for Drupal 9.3+, Drupal 10

562 (for D8+)
CKEditor Special Characters #3322259: Migrate to CKEditor 5 ~550
Editor Button Link #3307959: CKEditor 5 readiness ~430
Cookie Content Blocker custom ~350
CKEditor oembed custom (multiple) TBD ~300
GeshiFilter official official #3274974: CKEditor 5 and Drupal 10 readiness ~300
CKEditor Allowed Content Rules #3315965: CKEditor 5 readiness ~200
CKEditor Media (oEmbed) Plugin official: oembed TBD ~150
Tooltip custom TBD 93
CKEditor Layouts custom TBD ~60
CKEditor Placeholder custom custom #3273754: Ckeditor5 readiness ~40
Spoiler none custom #3388924: Add WYSIWYG/CKEditor 5 button for inserting spoiler

Modules with filters whose filter type was incorrect, which the CKEditor 4 → 5 upgrade path detects and complains about

This happens when a filter is used that indicates it is of the type FilterInterface::TYPE_MARKUP_LANGUAGE — usually they should've been marked as FilterInterface::TYPE_TRANSFORM_REVERSIBLE or FilterInterface::TYPE_TRANSFORM_IRREVERSIBLE.

Drupal module providing a filter Status + issue or note Usage (2022-09-18)
AutoFloat 🏁 since 1.2 #3274048: CKEditor 5 compatability ~380
Glossify 🏁 since 2.0.2 #3268577: Make it compatible with CKEditor5 ~1,000
Insert View 🏁 since 2.0.1 #3310922: Wrong filter type prevents this from being used with CKEditor 5 ~3,000
TOC Filter 🏁 since 2.1 #3268579: Make it compatible with CKEditor5 ~750
Bootstrap Utilities - Text editor filters 🏁 since 2.0.0 #3306658: CKEditor 5 readiness - Bootstrap Utilities ~500

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