About the Visual editor mode
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Hi guys!
I’m using the free plan and I want to disable the visual editor mode. When I switch between visual and text mode, it usually causes the formatting of my post to be off.
That’s literally annoying yet I haven’t figured out how to disable this option. Can you help?
Thanks a ton!The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi,
I don’t think it can be disabled. Perhaps you could just avoid using the visual editor mode, but the issue you’ve described is rather unusual, and certainly not to be expected when merely switching from one mode to the other. I’m going to tag to the topic for staff attention.
Reminds me of an old joke…
Patient says to his doctor, “Doc, it hurts when I go like this.”
Doc says, “Don’t go like that.” -
Hi there,
The visual editor cannot be disabled, but if you switch to the HTML editor that should be the active one automatically the next time you edit a post.
Switching between editors should not have any effect on your formatting, though. There are known issues with the editor in My Sites messing with source code, but I’m not aware of any issues with other types of content. The source code issue is also not a problem in the WP-Admin editor.
Which editor are you using, and what exactly gets messed up when you switch between visual and HTML? Do you have an example post or draft post I can look at to see the issue in action?
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@musicdoc1: Yes it definitely can’t fix the root cause :))
@kokkieh: Thanks for your concern!
I found out many internet articles talking about disabling the visual editor mode. I think I was bamboozled.
My problem is a little bit complex.
I want to post a formatted text from MS Word 2016 to WordPress. Since I don’t want to re-edit the content, I tried to convert my .docx to a HTML file, then copied the HTML text to HTML editor.
When I first switched to the visual editor mode, they seemed to appear right as they do in my MS Word. However, when I published the post, all of the formattings are removed. What’s exactly happened?
I only colored some characters in my original document. Is there any way I can retain them in WordPress? -
I found out many internet articles talking about disabling the visual editor mode. I think I was bamboozled.
You likely found articles pertaining to the open source WordPress software. With that version of WordPress you can edit the source code directly to change how it works, but that’s not possible on WordPress.com.
I want to post a formatted text from MS Word 2016 to WordPress. Since I don’t want to re-edit the content, I tried to convert my .docx to a HTML file, then copied the HTML text to HTML editor.
When I first switched to the visual editor mode, they seemed to appear right as they do in my MS Word. However, when I published the post, all of the formattings are removed. What’s exactly happened?Okay, that won’t work. MS Word is not an HTML editor, and converting a .docx into a .html file won’t give you clean HTML, and any incorrect HTML will get stripped out by the editor. It’s not the switching between visual and HTML mode that’s stripping the formatting, but the act of publishing the post itself – saving a draft should have the same effect, as it’s the action of saving/publishing that makes the editor check for invalid HTML.
If you want to compose your posts using Word, please use Word’s built-in blog publishing feature instead. That should result in your formatting making it across correctly, though it might not always work exactly as you expect.
You can find instructions on how to connect your site to Word here:
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