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Visual Term Description Editor

Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.6
Current version1.8.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.6
Minimum stackWP 3.3 · PHP 5.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update17 Aug 20242y ago
Active installations10K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 21 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Visual Term Description Editor version 1.8.1 as active, updated 2y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.6.

Overview

About this plugin

-Replaces the term description editor with the WordPress TinyMCE visual editor, allowing you to use HTML in term descriptions and write them in rich text. Works on all taxonomies, including tags, categories and link categories, as well as custom taxonomies.

This plugin is multisite-compatible; if you would like to use it on every blog, network activate the plugin from the network dashboard. Otherwise, activate the plugin for individual sites.

This plugin’s code is available on GitHub. Please feel free to fork the repository and send a pull request. If you find a bug in the plugin, open an issue.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • rich text
  • categories
  • tags
  • tinymce
  • wysiwyg
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.6

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.6.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.6
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.3 · PHP 5.4
Update activity17 Aug 20242y ago

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