Title: Deactivate Visual Editor
Author: matt_79
Published: <strong>March 23, 2008</strong>
Last modified: March 10, 2009

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# Deactivate Visual Editor

 By [matt_79](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt_79/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/deactive-visual-editor.zip)

 * [Details](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/deactive-visual-editor/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/deactive-visual-editor/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/deactive-visual-editor/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/deactive-visual-editor/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/deactive-visual-editor/)

## Description

The visual editor is nice when pages and posts are simple, but when you try to add
special text such as php code to a page then the visual editor oftentimes has to
be deactivated to edit the page. This plug-in allows you to set which posts should
not use the visual editor by setting a custom field ‘deactivate_visual_editor’ to
true. This allows the visual editor to be deactivated for the given post/page, but
remain active for all others.

## Installation

 1. Upload `deactivate_visual_editor.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  How do I tell the plug-in to deactivate the visual editor?

On the edit page or post form create a custom field ‘deactivate_visual_editor’ and
type ‘true’ as the value.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Deactivate Visual Editor” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ matt_79 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt_79/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/deactive-visual-editor/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/deactive-visual-editor/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/deactive-visual-editor/)
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## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.7.1**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/deactive-visual-editor/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[posts](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
   [visual editor](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/visual-editor/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mri.wordpress.org/plugins/deactive-visual-editor/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ matt_79 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt_79/)

## Support

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