RobArt Text Collector

Stop retyping the same text. If you find yourself pasting the same intro paragraph, product blurb, address, disclaimer or boilerplate into post after post, RobArt Text Collector gives those snippets a home — and drops them back at your cursor in one click.

It’s a small floating dock (a draggable “scratchpad”) that rides along wherever you edit in WordPress: the block editor, the Classic editor, plain admin fields, and the front-end when you’re logged in. Select some text, click Collect, and it’s saved. Click a saved clip to drop it straight at your cursor — or copy it to the clipboard when there’s nowhere to insert.

Reusable blocks are great for layouts, but clunky for plain phrases. This is built for the text you reuse.

Collect

• Select any text in WordPress and save it with the Collect button.
• Paste clips straight in from your clipboard.
• Works inside the block editor and the Classic (TinyMCE) editor.
• Optional tidy-up on capture: auto-capitalise the first letter, collapse stray whitespace, strip invisible characters.

Organise

• Group clips into colour-tagged folders, each with an optional note.
• A pinned Main folder to start; add your own.
• Rename, merge, empty or delete folders from a per-folder settings panel.
• A full Text Clips admin page mirrors the dock: one tab per folder, with copy / edit-in-place / print / delete on every clip.

Reuse

• Click a clip to insert it at your editing cursor, or copy it to the clipboard.
• Drag a clip onto another folder to move it.
• Download a whole folder as a plain-text file.

Your clips are private to your own WordPress account and stored in your own site’s database. There are no external services in the free plugin.

Free vs Pro

The free plugin is the whole collect → organise → reuse workflow, in full: the dock, the Collect bubble, unlimited folders, colour tags, notes, insert-at-cursor, and plain-text export.

Pro adds hands-on tools for a growing library:

• Read text from images (Live Text) — arm the scan tool on the dock, click any image on the page, and select the recognised text right on the picture to collect it. Great for screenshots, scanned notes, and graphics where text can’t normally be selected. It runs entirely in your browser; no image is ever uploaded.
• Search and filter your clips.
• Alt-drag to reorder folders and clips.
• Export a folder as a spreadsheet (CSV) or rich text (RTF), with a choice of columns.

Pro is a one-time purchase (it includes every version 1.x update). The Pro add-on is what talks to the licence server; the free plugin never does.

A note on the licence server (Pro only)

The free plugin makes no external calls. The paid Pro add-on validates your licence key with the author’s licence server at robsnow.eu (which in turn checks Lemon Squeezy). It sends only your licence key and your site URL, and only when you activate, deactivate, or during a periodic re-check. See the author’s site for the privacy policy and terms.

External Services

The free plugin makes no external requests — your clips are stored only in your own site’s database.

The paid RobArt Text Collector Pro add-on (a separate download, not part of this free plugin) validates your licence key with the author’s licence server so Pro features can be unlocked on your site. This applies only if you install the Pro add-on and enter a key.

• Service: RobArt / WPRobarts licence server at robsnow.eu, which in turn verifies the licence with Lemon Squeezy (the payment processor).
• What is sent, and when: your licence key and your site URL — sent only when you activate a licence, deactivate it, or during a periodic background re-check of an active licence. No personal data, and nothing about your clips, is ever sent.
• Why: to confirm the licence is valid and tied to your site, and to release Pro updates to licensed sites.
• Terms & privacy: see the author’s site at https://robsnow.eu/ for the privacy policy and terms of service, and Lemon Squeezy’s policies at https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/privacy and https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/terms .

Support

Questions, bug reports and feature requests are welcome on the plugin’s support forum on WordPress.org. Documentation and guides are available at https://robsnow.eu/plugins-wordpress-development/ .

Uninstall

Deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen removes all of its data: your folders and clips (the plugin’s two custom tables), its settings and licence record, its transients, and the per-user “Main folder” reference. Deactivating the plugin keeps everything — only Delete removes data.