Title: Gator Gate Pre
Author: tinwho
Published: <strong>November 7, 2026</strong>
Last modified: November 7, 2026

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# Gator Gate Pre

 By [tinwho](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tinwho/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gator-gate-pre.1.0.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gator-gate-pre/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gator-gate-pre/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gator-gate-pre/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gator-gate-pre/)

## Description

Gator Gate Pre for bbPress adds reliable Visual Editor `<pre>` support to front-
end bbPress topic and reply forms on a per-forum basis.

On each forum’s edit screen (Attributes metabox) you will find three checkboxes:

 * **Enable Visual Editor** — forces the visual editor on topic and reply forms 
   for that forum.
 * **Hide the Code tab** — available only when the visual editor is enabled (UI 
   convenience only).
 * **Change line spacing** — available only when the visual editor is enabled. Applies
   tighter line-height and paragraph/heading margins in the visual editor and on
   the front end of saved posts.

The Pre button and paste panel appear by default whenever the visual editor is enabled.

**Other plugins (or a theme’s functions.php file) can control the Pre button** with
the `gg_pre_show_pre_button` filter:

// Hide the Pre button everywhere
 add_filter( ‘gator_gate_pre_show_pre_button’,‘
__return_false’ );

// Force the Pre button on everywhere
 add_filter( ‘gator_gate_pre_show_pre_button’,‘
__return_true’ );

// Target a specific forum ID
 add_filter( ‘gator_gate_pre_show_pre_button’, function(
$show, $forum_id ) { if ( 123 === (int) $forum_id ) { return false; // hide on forum
123 } return $show; }, 10, 2 );

### Project Info

100% free plugin under the GPL license.

## Screenshots

[⌊Enable Visual Editor⌉⌊Enable Visual Editor⌉[

Enable Visual Editor

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Gator Gate Pre” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ tinwho ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tinwho/)

[Translate “Gator Gate Pre” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gator-gate-pre)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gator-gate-pre/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gator-gate-pre/), or 
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## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **6 hours ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.1.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [bbPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bbpress/)[code](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/code/)
   [pre](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pre/)[tinyMCE](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tinymce/)
   [visual editor](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/visual-editor/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gator-gate-pre/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ tinwho ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tinwho/)

## Support

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