This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

Disable WYSIWYG

Description

Disable WYSIWYG sets user_can_richedit to false that disable TinyMCE Visual Editor (WYSIWYG editor) totally completely permanently forever. This plugin also works fine with multisite enabled WordPress (aka. WordPress Mu).

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Installation

WordPress:

  1. Upload the extracted files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. In ‘Plugins’ page, choose ‘Activate’

Multisite enabled WordPress:

  1. Upload the extracted files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. In ‘Site Admin’ mode (You need log in as site admin), go to ‘Plugins’ page, choose ‘Network Activate’
  3. Just FYI, you can also activate this plugin individually for different sites.

Old-styled WordPress Mu:

  1. Upload the extracted files to the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory
  2. That’s all.

Reviews

15 красавіка, 2017
Handy Dandy! Simple and Functional Thanks to this, I avoided that ugly iframe injecting visual editor for the comments section
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Contributors & Developers

“Disable WYSIWYG” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.0.9

  • Compatibility check for 5.8, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

1.0.8

  • Starting from WordPress 5.0, you need an additional plugin Classic Editor by Automattic to disable Gutenberg first.

1.0.7

  • Compatibility check for 4.6 and 4.7, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

1.0.6

  • Compatibility check for 4.5, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

1.0.5

  • Compatibility check for 4.4, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

1.0.4

  • Compatibility check for 4.3, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

1.0.3

  • Fix PHP warning, props deMediaWerker.

1.0.2

  • Compatibility check for 4.2.2, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works.

1.0.1

  • Update readme

1.0.0

  • First release