Title: Make text editor default
Last modified: December 17, 2018

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# Make text editor default

 *  Resolved [Joehann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joehann/)
 * (@joehann)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-text-editor-default-2/)
 * Hi!
 * I just installed the editor and everything’s working fine so far. Except the 
   fact that I have to deal again with the “visual”-tab which was deactivated before.
   Is there a way to make that tab disappear again and just leave me with the text-
   mode as the default mode? Deactivating the tab in my user profile doesn’t do 
   the trick anymore as it deactivates the text-tab instead of the visual-tab.
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Author [Andrew Ozz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaozz/)
 * (@azaozz)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-text-editor-default-2/#post-11007393)
 * > Is there a way to make that tab disappear again and just leave me with the 
   > text-mode as the default mode
 * Sure. Set “Classic” as default and click the “Disable the visual editor…” checkbox.
   Then you will be left with the textarea only.
 *  Thread Starter [Joehann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joehann/)
 * (@joehann)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-text-editor-default-2/#post-11007823)
 * Sorry, doesn’t work. In my case the text-mode gets deactivated and leaves me 
   with the visual-mode. For whatever reason…
 *  Plugin Author [Andrew Ozz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaozz/)
 * (@azaozz)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-text-editor-default-2/#post-11008030)
 * Hmmm, there may be a plugin that’s doing it. Plugins and themes can “force” the
   visual mode. It works properly when I test it on WP 5.0.1.

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

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 * Last reply from: [Andrew Ozz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaozz/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-text-editor-default-2/#post-11008030)
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