Title: Remove buttons inserted by plugins etc.
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Remove buttons inserted by plugins etc.

 *  [fesarlis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fesarlis/)
 * (@fesarlis)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-buttons-inserted-by-plugins-etc/)
 * Hello.
    Inside a post edit, there are much more buttons than in TinyMCE button
   config. There are buttons like ‘highlight text’, ‘display feeds’, ‘dropcap’ etc.
   There are also other buttons inserted by plugins (to add their respective shortcodes
   for example).
 * How can I really customize which buttons a user will see?
    Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Andrew Ozz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaozz/)
 * (@azaozz)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-buttons-inserted-by-plugins-etc/#post-7633745)
 * This was possible at one point but had to remove it. Turned out that many people
   would remove another plugin’s button(s), then forget about it and complain to
   the other plugin author…
 * If you want to hide the buttons added by TinyMCE plugins, why installing these
   plugins at all? 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [fesarlis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fesarlis/)
 * (@fesarlis)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-buttons-inserted-by-plugins-etc/#post-7633746)
 * Buttons are sometimes needed, that’s why. To be more precise, I only want those
   buttons removed for specific user roles. For example, I have content editors 
   for the site that should only be able to create text-based posts. Those users
   should only be able to see basic text-editing buttons, not buttons that enable
   them to add an advanced grid or an iframe.
 *  Plugin Author [Andrew Ozz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaozz/)
 * (@azaozz)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-buttons-inserted-by-plugins-etc/#post-7633817)
 * > I only want those buttons removed for specific user roles.
 * That sounds like a good idea for a plugin. I may add it to TinyMCE Advanced one
   day, not sure how many people would need something like that though.
 *  [TrishaM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trisham/)
 * (@trisham)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-buttons-inserted-by-plugins-etc/#post-8703129)
 * [@azaozz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaozz/) I would like to add a “
   +1” or upvote for this!! It’s definitely a feature I would use (the ability to
   allow or remove specific buttons added by OTHER plugins).
 * Like [@fesarlis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fesarlis/) I also have certain
   levels of users that I DO want to have access to SOME buttons/function but NOT
   to others…..for example GravityForms adds an “Add Form” button, WP-Tiles adds
   a “Tiles” button (those are things I don’t want anyone below an Editor to have
   access to)…..the list goes on.
 * The only way I’ve found to remove those buttons is to overwrite the built-in 
   TinyMCE but then it doesn’t allow for buttons added by plugins that I DO want
   users to have access to.
 * On my “in a perfect world” wishlist is the wish that someday ALL plugin developers
   will add an Admin Setting that asks if buttons should be added and if so, for
   which user levels. Sigh, I hope and dream. 🙂
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [TrishaM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trisham/).

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-buttons-inserted-by-plugins-etc/#post-8703129)
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