Disable Tinymce HTML editor for everyone but admin

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Adding this snippet to the functions.php of your wordpress theme will disable the Tinymce HTML editor for everyone but the admin.

snippet : PHPcopy

add_filter( 'wp_default_editor', create_function('', 'return "tinymce";') );
add_action( 'admin_head', 'disable_html_editor_wps' );
function disable_html_editor_wps() {
	global $current_user;
	get_currentuserinfo();
	if ($current_user->user_level != 10) {
		echo '<style type="text/css">#editor-toolbar #edButtonHTML, #quicktags {display: none;}</style>';
	}
}

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Anonymous

Any way to make this user specific?
- http://wpsnipp.com Kevin Chard
  
  Yep you could do something like this, should work. Using a list of people within an array and check against the current user. If the users not in the $users array you remove HTML editor.
  
  add_filter( ‘wp_default_editor’, create_function(”, ‘return “tinymce”;’) );
  add_action( ‘admin_head’, ‘disable_html_editor_wps’ );
  function disable_html_editor_wps() {
  
      global $current_user;
      get_currentuserinfo();
  
      $users = array(“dave”, “larry”, “steve”, “ryan”);
  
      if (!in_array($current_user->user_login, $users)) {
          echo ‘#editor-toolbar #edButtonHTML, #quicktags {display: none;}';
      }
  }
Nick

Thanks, helpful!
- http://wpsnipp.com Kevin Chard
  
  Glad to help nick,
Braamsviper

Thanks, just what i needed.
- http://wpsnipp.com Kevin Chard
  
  Cool glad I could be of help.
Mike

Hey Kevin — great snippet and learned from it as I do from most of your code. Bizarre follow up, how can we disable the text area altogether? WHAT!!!! LOL
Ok, I have a custom post type with nothing but custom fields for entry (using the custom fields template plugin) and all the cod is in the custom post php template. I know it has something to do with ‘display: none’ but don’t know what the “display” code is. I think I can put it in a separate style sheet with add_editor_style and use an if (is_singular) condition to show only on the custom post.

Thanks
- http://wpsnipp.com Kevin Chard
  
  Hi Mike, you can remove the Editor from the custom post type by removing that options from the supports array within your custom post type code.
  
  ‘supports’ => array( ‘title’, ‘editor’, ‘excerpt’, ‘custom-fields’, ‘thumbnail’ ),
http://www.avinashdsouza.me Avinash D’Souza

Hey Kevin,

I’d really love to see this code still being active…any chance of an update for WP 3.5?

As of now, I don’t see this working…
- mano
  
  Avinash D’Souza:
  this works for me! – replace the style part for this:
  
  html.wp-toolbar
  body.wp-admin div#wpwrap div#wpcontent div#wpbody div#wpbody-content
  div.wrap form#post div#poststuff div#post-body.metabox-holder
  div#post-body-content div#postdivrich.postarea
  div#wp-content-wrap.wp-core-ui
  div#wp-content-editor-tools.wp-editor-tools
  a#content-tmce.wp-switch-editor
steve

Nice snippet. I had to use the following CSS to make this work: a#content-html {display: none !important;}
Fredrik Persson

It seems that you can use firedebug and enable it again and use it and still write javascript.
Not safe.
Ben

Disable and display:none; aren’t really the same thing…

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