[Plugin: Gravity Forms WYSIWYG] How to Make the Visual Tab Set as Default

Perhaps you’ve already figured it out, but maybe this will help others. I think these will apply site-wide, but you could write the functions with some conditional statements to target a specific form.

Visual Editor as Default

// Set Visual editor WYSIWYG as default
// http://wp-snippets.com/set-default-editor/
add_filter( 'wp_default_editor', create_function('', 'return "tinymce";') );

Show “Kitchen Sink” Options by Default

// Show "kitchen sink" editor by default
// http://wpmu.org/show-the-wordpress-kitchen-sink-options-on-the-editor-by-default/
add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', 'my_unhide_kitchen_sink');
function my_unhide_kitchen_sink($args) {
	$args['wordpress_adv_hidden'] = false;
	return $args;
}