Better File Editor is a WordPress app, with a 4.7 average rating from 17 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Better File Editor is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Bryan Petty. With a rating of 4.7★ from 17 reviews.
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Better File Editor is a highly rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 17 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.7★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Bryan Petty — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (17) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Better File Editor works
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Adds line numbers, syntax highlighting, code folding, and lots more to the
theme and plugin editors in the admin panel.
This plugin replaces the boring, clunky, and difficult to use theme and plugin
editor with a full-featured code editor using the Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor.
Requirements:
Javascript Enabled (will use default editor if disabled)
Browsers: Internet Explorer 9+, Chrome 21+, Firefox 10+, Safari 6.0+
Included Themes:
Ambiance
Chaos
Chrome
Clouds
Clouds Midnight
Cobalt
Crimson Editor
Dawn
Dreamweaver
Eclipse
GitHub
idleFingers
IPlastic
KatzenMilch
krTheme
Kuroir
Merbivore
Merbivore Soft
Mono Industrial
Monokai
Pastel on Dark
Solarized Dark
Solarized Light
SQL Server
Terminal
TextMate
Tomorrow
Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow Night Blue
Tomorrow Night Bright
Tomorrow Night 80s
Twilight
Vibrant Ink
Xcode
Supported Languages:
ABAP
ABC Notation
ADA
ActionScript
AppleScript
AsciiDoc
Assembly x86
AutoHotKey
BatchFile
C9Search
C/C++
Clojure
Cobol
CoffeeScript
ColdFusion
C#
CSS
Curly
D
Dart
Diff
Dot
Elixir
Elm
Erlang
EJS
Forth
FreeMarker
Gherkin
gitignore
Glsl
Go
Groovy
HAML
Handlebars
Haskell
haXe
HTML
HTML (Ruby)
Ini
Jade
Java
JavaScript
JSON
JSONiq
JSP
JSX
Julia
LaTeX
Lean
LESS
Liquid
Lisp
LiveScript
LogiQL
LSL
Lua
LuaPage
Lucene
Makefile
MATLAB
Markdown
MaskJS
Maze
MySQL
MUSHCode
Nix
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
pgSQL
PHP
Powershell
Prolog
Properties
Protobuf
Python
R
RDoc
RHTML
Ruby
Rust
SASS
SCAD
Scala
Scheme
SCSS
SH
Smarty
snippets
Soy
SQL
SQLServer
Stylus
SVG
Tcl
Tex
Text
Textile
Toml
Twig
Typescript
Vala
VBScript
Velocity
XML
XQuery
YAML
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is Better File Editor?
Better File Editor is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.7-star rating from 17 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Bryan Petty.