Classic Visual Editor Options

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38 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 14 listed. 24 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Crossed into this band 5 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 43% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ joxmiguel

   5mo ago

   Finally a plugin that works, thank you so much for this, really.

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2. ★★★★★ Daffydd57

   12mo ago

   Why the WP devs would think it was okay to remove the “Disable Visual Editor” option in a user’s profile is beyond idiotic. This plug in puts it back. That’s all it does – no other bloat or extra code – clean and simple. THANK YOU!!!

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3. ★★★★★ kimipooh

   1.2y ago

   Thank you for providing such a great plugin!I translated the main part into Japanese \^^/;. When entering code in the classic editor, the forced substitution function would sometimes be activated in the visual editor, so this feature was very useful. I agree with Gutenbeng’s philosophy, but it’s a shame that the option for a simpler editor is disappearing.

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4. ★★★★★ mikemacd

   1.2y ago

   I would like to mirror what vizons said in his review. Like vizons, I am also not a fan of wysiwyg editors and I also like having full control over how I write. WordPress used to leave the edit-mode in either visual or text mode – which ever you were using last – so that if you were editing in text mode, the site stayed in text mode. Then they changed it so that if defaulted to opening visual mode on every edit, which is when I changed my user profile to have the visual mode disabled. Now they disabled that option which I only discovered today when adding a new user to a site. WordPress – why force me to edit in a mode I don’t like? Happily I found the Classic Visual Editor Options plugin in a comment from the author on Reddit thread. Super! Thank you SO much for producing this lightweight, problem-solving tool. It solves the problem perfectly!

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5. ★★★★★ vizons

   1.4y ago

   I was completely distraught yesterday to find that every time I saved my post in classic editor that it kept saving it in visual mode. I use a Mac and write all my posts in textedit plain text mode so I can style it with css and then paste all of my writing/code into the classic editor. I was deeply depressed yesterday about the fact that the WordPress developer team decided to remove the text/code saving capability. The way they downgraded this option is completely backwards because for people like me who never had the “disable visual editor when writing” in user profile checked, it causes major issues when writing and saving in text/code mode. I never had that option checked before they completely removed it because the classic editor always worked the way I like to use it which is stay in text/code mode when writing and saving my posts. As you said in the post on your website about restoring the freedom of choice concerning the classic editor, they took away our freedom to use classic editor according to our preferences. I am NOT a fan of wysiwyg editors. I like having full control over what I create. Thank you many, many times over for creating this plugin. When I found it this morning, it was like the sun came out from a dark, dismal day!!!!!

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Growth timeline

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1. 2026-05-29 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-05-28 1K+ → 900+ down after 4 days in tier
3. 2026-05-24 900+ → 1K+ up after 41 days in tier
4. 2026-04-13 800+ → 900+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2026-04-11 700+ → 800+ up after 2 days in tier
6. 2026-04-09 600+ → 700+ up after 3 days in tier
7. 2026-04-06 500+ → 600+ up after 2 days in tier
8. 2026-04-04 300+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier

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Classic Visual Editor Options: 1K+ active installs, 5.0★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/classic-visual-editor-options