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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.

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    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>';
	}
}

    ( WordPress codex functions, hooks, in this snippet. )

    admin_head, get_currentuserinfo, add_filter, add_action, _e, wp,
  • Anonymous

    Any way to make this user specific?

    •  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!

  • Braamsviper

    Thanks, just what i needed.

  • 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

    • 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’ ),

  • 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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