Title: Set default editor
Last modified: May 28, 2020

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# Set default editor

 *  Resolved [florianrinnhofer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florianrinnhofer/)
 * (@florianrinnhofer)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-default-editor/)
 * How can I change the default editor back to Visual Editor?
 * Since Version 5.3.1 Code editor is made the default editor.

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 *  Plugin Author [vaakash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaakash/)
 * (@vaakash)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-default-editor/#post-12916896)
 * Hi [@florianrinnhofer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florianrinnhofer/),
 * Sorry for the late reply. Currently there is no global settings page where the
   default editor preference can be set.
 * But I’m planning to work on it.
 * For now you please go to plugn editor and change this in shortcoder.php [https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcoder/trunk/shortcoder.php#L111](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcoder/trunk/shortcoder.php#L111)
   to “visual” ?
 *  Thread Starter [florianrinnhofer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florianrinnhofer/)
 * (@florianrinnhofer)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-default-editor/#post-12931668)
 * Thanks, great! we are going to try that.
    Would be nice if you can set the default
   editor in future versions in the WP Backend. 🙂
 * Thank you!
 *  Plugin Author [vaakash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaakash/)
 * (@vaakash)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-default-editor/#post-12932212)
 * Cheers !
 *  Thread Starter [florianrinnhofer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florianrinnhofer/)
 * (@florianrinnhofer)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-default-editor/#post-13407529)
 * Do I have to make the change after each update?
    Without the changed code, it’s
   impossible to switch to the other editor options.

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 * [visual editor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/visual-editor/)

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 * Last reply from: [florianrinnhofer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/florianrinnhofer/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-default-editor/#post-13407529)
 * Status: resolved