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How to Remove Visual Editor Mode in WordPress

The visual editor in WordPress allows people an easy way to edit their posts and see how it will look. Again, the purpose is to make it easy, especially for people who are not as code savvy. Sometimes people do not use the visual editor out of personal preference, so this tutorial is on how to remove the visual editor mode in WordPress.

Now, the reasons why anyone might remove the option to use the visual editor are:

  • If they have specific code that they wish to insert while in the Text editor and not accidentally flip over to the Visual Editor. In doing so, this code is stripped out.
  • The theme or other necessary plugins are not playing nice enough to allow the visual editor to work properly, so it is pointless to use it.
  • They just do not like using it…period.

There are work arounds like installing the TinyMCE Advanced plugin for WordPress that adds more functionality to the Visual editor or if you are a developer, write some shortcodes and have your own custom version of extending the TinyMCE functions in the visual editor.

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How to Remove Visual Editor Mode in WordPress

This tutorial is really simple. You only have to go to your user profile in your WordPress backend under Users and then Your Profile. The first option you see under Personal Options is about the Visual Editor. Check that box, and then scroll down to click the button to Update Profile in order to submit your changes.

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Once you have, you have successfully disabled the visual editor!

Do you use the visual editor in your WordPress backend, or have you disabled it? If you have disabled the visual editor, why?

How To Rename the Uncategorized Category in WordPress

By default, WordPress gives you one category called ‘Uncategorized.’ Most WordPress users will probably want to change the name as they may want to put a different term according to what their site’s niche may be. So… how can you rename it? Well, it is not as difficult as you may think.

How To Rename the Uncategorized Category in WordPress

You will need to go to your WordPress Dashboard and navigate to the area Posts, and then select in the drop down, Categories. You should be able to see a list for categories. If your website is new, you may just have the ‘Uncategorized’ category. However over that category and underneath you can click to edit the term.

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You will be able to see some areas in order to edit your category. Simply type the new name in the category name and then in lowercase letters, type the name you want as that categories slug. The slug is used in the permalink of your site’s address, especially if you are using the post name URL structure.

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Click the submit button and your Uncategorized category will be renamed to what you wanted it to be. In the case that you have had your site for some time and already have traffic, make sure to place a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new URL so it is crawled and properly found by the search engines.

Have you renamed your Category named Uncategorized or did you keep it? If you kept the category the same default name, then why did you decide to?

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