Title: 'visual' comment editor?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# 'visual' comment editor?

 *  [marksibly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marksibly/)
 * (@marksibly)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-comment-editor/)
 * Hi,
 * Is there any way to get the ‘comment editor’ to work in visual mode, the way 
   the ‘post editor’ does?
 * With the post editor, I get a nice ‘visual/text’ style rich editor complete with
   media buttons, but with the comment editor it’s just the plain text editor.
 * I have tried a few of the suggested hacks but nothing quite worked. In particular,
   adding this to functions.php…
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'wp_editor_settings', 'mx2_editor_settings_filter', 10, 2 );
       function mx2_editor_settings_filter( $settings, $id ){
           global $pagenow;
           if( $id=='content' && $pagenow==='comment.php' ){
           	$settings['media_buttons']=true;
               $settings['quicktags']=true;
               $settings['tinymce']=true;
           }
           return $settings;
       }
       ```
   
 * *almost* works, except the text that appears in the editor is ‘pre-escaped’ or
   something, ie: The visual editor ends up with the html tags in it, and the ‘raw’
   text editor ends up with ‘&’ and other ‘escaped html’ in it.
 * I am running with crayon and bpress plugins which complicates everything, but
   I’ve been unable to make this work even with all plugins disabled.
 * Bye!
    Mark

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