Title: Disable visual editor
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Disable visual editor

 *  [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-visual-editor/)
 * I’ve disabled the visual editor by adding a filter to functions.php.
 * I also want to remove either any reference to it, or the ‘Disable the visual 
   editor when writing’ text which appears on the user page.
 * Currently, I’m only able to add clarifying text with this:
 *     ```
       add_filter ( 'user_can_richedit' , create_function ( '$a' , 'return false;' ) , 50 );
       add_action( 'admin_print_styles-profile.php', 'hide_rich_edit_option' );
       add_action( 'admin_print_styles-user-edit.php', 'hide_rich_edit_option' );
       function hide_rich_edit_option() {
       ?>
       <style type="text/css">
       label[for=rich_editing] input { display: none; }
       label[for=rich_editing]:before { content: 'The option to enable the visual editor has been removed (in functions.php). (Formerly: ' }
       label[for=rich_editing]:after { content: '.)'; }
       </style><?php
       }
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-visual-editor/)
 * Status: not resolved

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