Is there a way to turn off the WYSIWYG editor?

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  jamesewelch · Member · Aug 28, 2007 at 2:13 am

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  I’ve had numerous problems with the editor removing my HTML code.

  It wouldn’t be so bad, if I could just enter HTML and then let WP filter out or modify my code, but I think the WYSIWYG editor is messing it up even more than the WP filters.

  examples:
  * escaped sequence for space ($nbsp;) are removed and then combined together into a single space
  * paragraph (p) tags are removed from table cells (td tags) and (br) tags are stripped and line breaks occasionally are removed which end up combining multiple paragraphs/breaks into a single line. If I fight with fixing the code and saving it in code view without previewing in WYSIWYG mode, then I can get it to work, it just takes a long time.

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  kimik0 · Member · Aug 28, 2007 at 2:22 am

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  Dashboard → Users → Your Profile, then turn off the ‘use visual rich editor’ option and click ‘Update’.

  Not a very logical place..

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  jamesewelch · Member · Aug 28, 2007 at 2:34 am

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  Thanks, I kept looking under options or Write section. Didn’t think to look there.

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  kimik0 · Member · Aug 28, 2007 at 2:39 am

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  Yeah, that’s where I looked for it too. I suppose it does make a little sense to put it there because one user can be writing for more than one blog.

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  drmiketemp · Member · Aug 28, 2007 at 2:43 am

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  Agreed. It’s a sitewide option for the user, not a single blog one.