Disable WYSIWYG

August 11, 2021

Disable WYSIWYG Plugin

Disable TinyMCE Visual Editor (WYSIWYG editor) totally completely permanently forever

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.

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

Details

  • Version: 1.0.9
  • Active installations: 60
  • WordPress Version: 1.5
  • Tested up to: 5.8.10

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