Turn Off Visual Text Editor in WordPress

Posted on October 29th, 2007
by Lisa Stewart: : Better Rankings By Blogging

First Thing to Do After You Install WordPress- Uncheck Visual Editor Option

I am NOT a fan of the visual editor in WordPress. Pretty much the first thing i do when I install a blog is turn it off.
The rich text editor is SUPPOSED to be a WYSIWYG type editor . It is a hassle and if you want to get good at writing blogs that are crawled and searched and found- turn it off.
You can still write whatever you want- but you can add tags, etc whenever you want. Do not be afraid! Its not that hard.

How To Turn Off Visual Editor in WordPress and Write Your Own HTML

The visual text editor in WordPress is automatically checked ON for every user. You have to to to your user profile in wordpress.
Dashboard-> Users-> Authors and Users-> Your Profile and uncheck. You need to be signed in as that user to change.