QuickTip: Turn Off WordPress 2.0 Visual Editor
A lot of people I’ve spoke to, and many blog posts I have read have been really unhappy with the new visual editor in WordPress 2.0. It is pretty simple to revert back to the traditional post interface without all the WYSIWYG additions, but a lot of people aren’t sure how, or where to find the option. Click the “Users” menu in the WP admin area to access your profile. Once you are on the “Users” page scroll to the bottom of the page, and uncheck the “Use the visual editor” option. Once you have done this click the save button and you are back to the old, comfortable, pre-2.0 interface that we all love.
For every WP2-powered website I create, the first thing I do is disable the WYSIWYG editor. It’s very annoying - I can type/code anything much faster by hand. Typing ‘a href’ is like pressing one character for me now.
I agree. Initially I was frustrated because I was not being able to figure out how to turn off that option [ I was going to Options>Writing> and then unchecking the “users should use the visual rich editor by default” under Formatting and nothing would happen!
After looking around some more, I chanced upon the option in the Users section and quickly changed the options for all my three blogs.
I agree with Paul, I too can hand-code much faster.
The WYSIWYG is like walking through water when you know you can swim
Same here, first thing I did after upgrading to WordPress 2.0.
I hate the editor. The oldschool way is the best way!
I totally agree, the WP 2.0 WYSIWYG editor is just annoying, for me. I rather prefer the old text editor: it’s fast and you got every tag under control.
While I agree as a developer or someone with history of coding, the visual editor is lame, it’s great when you setup a site for someone like my mom, or some non-techie, as they can see most everything and have their own blog and really add a lot of good stuff without it being too complicated. I think that’s what they were aiming for, so for that, it accomplished it’s task…now, I’m off to disable it on my latest blog…lol.
yes, it really sucks, it always change your html code and wont let you to publish them unmodified
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