Title: set Visual editor as default view
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# set Visual editor as default view

 *  Resolved [svzgsgps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svzgsgps/)
 * (@svzgsgps)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-visual-editor-as-default-view/)
 * Hi –
 * How can I set it so that the visual editor is the default displayed tab option
   for a user?
 * thanks!
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 *  Plugin Author [Fidgety Lizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fliz/)
 * (@fliz)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-visual-editor-as-default-view/#post-7467999)
 * Hi there,
 * The visual editor generally *is* the default tab for new users (I’ve just checked
   this with some newly created users, and that’s what I’m seeing). After the initial
   default, the editor will remember what tab you used last time, and show you that
   one next time around.
 * Perhaps your theme or another plugin is tweaking this setting? Or perhaps your
   last selected editor tab from within the main WP editor (the admin dashboard)
   is carrying over to the forum front end?
 *  Plugin Author [Fidgety Lizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fliz/)
 * (@fliz)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-visual-editor-as-default-view/#post-7468003)
 * NB If you want to manually set the default tab to show for a new user, you should
   be able do it with the following code snippet in your theme’s functions.php:
 * For visual tab default:
    `add_filter( 'wp_default_editor', create_function('','
   return "tinymce";') );`
 * For html tab default:
    `add_filter( 'wp_default_editor', create_function('', '
   return "html";') );`
 * Note that this will change the default everywhere (dashboard and forum).

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