Disable WYSIWYG

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Reviewers say it does exactly one job and does it fully, disabling the visual editor where other plugins only hid the button, with one asking it would leave other editors alone.

1. ★★★★★ kreo

   8.7y ago

   It work very good.

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2. ★★★★★ pmitwithnitin

   9.4y ago

   Handy Dandy! Simple and Functional Thanks to this, I avoided that ugly iframe injecting visual editor for the comments section

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3. ★★★★★ motokun

   9.5y ago

   Does what expected, no bells & whistles This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by motokun.

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4. ★★★★★ artocean

   11.2y ago

   I have tried 3 others before it and the others only remove the “Visual” button and still let the editor to load (maybe because of a default setting). But this plugin does the job completely. The logo and the description also describes my own feelings towards TinyMCE.

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5. ★★★★★ rad1964

   11.4y ago

   This did disable the visual editor, unfortunately I wanted TinyMCE out and a different one in that wouldn’t hide aka strip the br tag. I have wp edit installed, this also strips that interface out entirely. If only it would stick to the TinyMCE, we’d have an awesome plugin.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-01-13 50+ → 40+ down after 40 days in tier
2. 2025-12-04 40+ → 50+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2025-12-02 50+ → 40+ down after 14 days in tier
4. 2025-11-18 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2025-11-17 50+ → 40+ down after 15 days in tier
6. 2025-11-02 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-11-01 50+ → 40+ down after 8 days in tier
8. 2025-10-24 40+ → 50+ up after 3 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Relative URL 3K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
• A Advanced Excerpt 80K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• E Error Log Monitor 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags B
• Automatic Domain Changer 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
• WPCore Plugin Manager 9K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags C
• R Root Relative URLs 6K+ installs · 3.3★ · 2 shared tags F

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Disable WYSIWYG: 40+ active installs, 4.6★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/disable-wysiwyg