Title: Visual vs. Text Editor
Last modified: September 22, 2016

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# Visual vs. Text Editor

 *  Resolved [mirandaaltice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mirandaaltice/)
 * (@mirandaaltice)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-vs-text-editor/)
 * I am not given the choice of Visual Text Editor on my post/page editing page.
   I’m only given the option of Text Editor. Am I missing something?
 * Thanks,
    Miranda

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 *  [abletec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abletec/)
 * (@abletec)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-vs-text-editor/#post-8208757)
 * Hello, Miranda, & welcome back to the WordPress support forum. There’s a lot 
   you don’t tell us, i.e., your site url, your theme, what plugins you’re running,
   etc. Usually in situations like this we ask you to switch to a default theme (
   they begin w/twenty) & also to disable your plugins by renaming your plugins 
   folder to something like plugins1 or plugins.old. If that causes the problem 
   to go away, then we ask you to return to your original theme. If the problem 
   recurs, then we know it’s the theme that’s problematic. If the site still works
   as expected, then we ask that you rename your plugins folder to its original 
   name, but rename all plugins except 1 inside that folder to pluginname1 or pluginname.
   old. We usually suggest you let a plugin like Akismet retain its name, as it’s
   basically a core plugin & should introduce no incompatibilities. Then we visit
   the site to see if the problem reappears. We keep renaming plugins, 1 at a time,
   visiting the site after each rename, to see if the site still works. We also 
   recommend clearing the browser cache after each visit to ensure you’re not viewing
   a cached version of the site. The last plugin you renamed before the site broke
   is the problem.
 * Lastly, be certain you’re logged in as admin, just to ensure you’ve got proper
   permissions to be accessing the editor.
 *  Thread Starter [mirandaaltice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mirandaaltice/)
 * (@mirandaaltice)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-vs-text-editor/#post-8217783)
 * Hi Jackie,
    Thanks for replying. My site is [http://theindigoteacher.com/](http://theindigoteacher.com/),
   and I just recently switched to the Solstice theme from Bottomless Themes. I’ve
   never had a choice between visual and text since the very beginning, even when
   I was using the Twenty theme or Olson Lite theme.
 * Thanks,
    Miranda
 *  Thread Starter [mirandaaltice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mirandaaltice/)
 * (@mirandaaltice)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-vs-text-editor/#post-8217793)
 * Alas! It was as simple as clicking a button. There is a button in “Edit Profile”
   that clearly says “Disable visual text editor when editing posts.” For some reason
   it was checked to disable – I don’t ever recall clicking this, so I’m guessing
   maybe it’s by default.
 * Anyway, problem solved. Thanks for your reply.
 * Miranda

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## Tags

 * [edit post page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/edit-post-page/)
 * [text editor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/text-editor/)
 * [visual editor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/visual-editor/)

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 * Last reply from: [mirandaaltice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mirandaaltice/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-vs-text-editor/#post-8217793)
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