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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 โ€˜Pluginsโ€™ page, choose โ€˜Activateโ€™

Multisite enabled WordPress:

  1. Upload the extracted files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. In โ€˜Site Adminโ€™ mode (You need log in as site admin), go to โ€˜Pluginsโ€™ page, choose โ€˜Network Activateโ€™
  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

โ„๏ธ1๏ธโƒฃ2๏ธโƒฃ 18, 2017
It work very good.
๐ŸŒธ4๏ธโƒฃ 15, 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