Disable Visual Editor WYSIWYG
by stanxp · Admin & Utilities
This plugin will disable the visual editor for selected page/post..
51 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.31, well behind 6.8.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3111 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
381
now · peak 398
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 99% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2015-08-11 · 1,432 observations
Estimated value
What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.
Est. annual revenue
Est. acquisition value
No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 12 reviews to 2019-06-07Reviewers say it does one job and does it well, keeping the visual editor from mangling hand-written HTML, with a couple of small requests like hiding the text tab instead.
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ raycopper7.2y ago
Installed and working as expected on WordPress 5.2.1 using Twenty Fourteen Theme 07.06.2019
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ ecaron8.4y ago
I’ve added this to my list of “Essential Plugins”. Doesn’t need to be by default, but it makes it wonderful for having multiple admins coordinating pages and making sure people know when they can/shouldn’t rely on the WYSIWYG editor.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ mattroslund8.4y ago
It does exactly what it says. I have to add HTML code to certain pages, and this plugin stops the visual editor from royally messing them up. It’s a life saver!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Roman8.5y ago
Все працює без проблем!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Lorenzo8.7y ago
Simple and very usefull. Could be nice to be able to keep only visual and hide text.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ kalico8.8y ago
For the second time in 4 months, I had to tell someone not to use the visual editor after it borked custom code. I use another plugin to lock certain posts so that only a superadmin (on a multisite network) can edit them. But for those rare pages where our content managers MUST be able to edit AND must never use the visual editor, this plugin here is the perfect solution. Some users have asked for additional features….I respectfully disagree. The beauty of this plugin is it’s perfect simplicity. There are plenty of plugins out there with multiple features that require extra support and create extra bloat…this one does what it is intended to do, and does it perfectly. This topic was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by kalico.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ SVTX9.1y ago
Great for people who want to build wordpress content pages in html and keep WordPress from effing it up.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ vivah9.3y ago
Helps me out of a tricky situation.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 3 languages, 0 at 90% or more · development strings
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-15 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-14 1K+ → 2K+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-06-10 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-09 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2026-06-06 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-05 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2026-06-02 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-01 1K+ → 2K+ up after 17 days in tier
Competes with
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