EV Crosswords
Easily add crosswords to your Wordpress website, with or without AI help.
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Maintenance & Compatibility
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Stale • Last updated 308 days ago • 1 reviews
Is EV Crosswords abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 308 days ago).
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Description
This Plugin allows you to create and add crosswords to pages on your WordPress website. Blocks functionality is required in this version, to add Crosswords to a WordPress page.
The admin interface provides a way for users to make use of AI to generate lists of words and hints to be used in their crosswords.
It also provides a way to use the Creatorive’s Crossword generation tool to automatically create a Crossword from your list of words and hints.
All the above functionality is optional. You can also create a Crossword manually, within the Plugin, by typing your word list, or by manually adding words to a Crossword.
See this video: Crosswords in WordPress on our YouTube Channel for an example of usage.
Development
Development happens in Github:
EV-Crosswords
Installation
Installation and use of this plugin is straightforward:
- Download the plugin files and copy to your Plugins directory.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Navigate to Dashboard, Ev Crosswords Settings.
- (Optionally) Configure your AI Provider and Creatorive key.
- Generate word lists and Crossword files using those APIs, or
- Alternatively, paste manually created Crossword files in the text area provided within the “Generate” page.
- Save your Crossword file, and add it to any WordPress page you want to, as a Block, using the WordPress Block Editor.
Frequently Asked Questions
It makes easy adding crosswords to pages on your WordPress website. You can do so with or without AI help.
It does not directly create Crosswords from a simple prompt, it just gives you an easy way to use to AI tools to create lists of words and hints and then to use those words to create a crossword.
No, it does not.

