Henrik Björklund

The main purpose of the plugin is to start a discussion on how we could improve the editor in WordPress. This plugin is thus a very opinionated one. The button selection is done with reusable content in mind. All buttons that would results in harmful markup are removed.
The plugin also removes the kitchen sink button. Instead, there is an icon with three dots. Pressing that expands the row to contain all the available buttons. This works better with a responsive page than hard coded lines of buttons which in some widths break into four separate lines.
A detailed description of design decisions can be found <a href="http://akibjorklund.com/2015/editor-buttons-simplified" rel="nofollow ugc">on my blog</a>.

Editor Buttons Simplified

Editor Buttons Simplified is a simple WordPress plugin that makes adjustments to the TinyMCE editor buttons to make it more usable.

Shea Bunge

-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 <a href="https://github.com/sheabunge/visual-term-description-editor" rel="nofollow ugc">available on GitHub</a>. Please feel free to fork the repository and send a pull request. If you find a bug in the plugin, open an issue.

Visual Term Description Editor

This plugin is very helpful specially for those client user who want to use the classic editor. Hope to update and maintain this plugin. Thank you.

This is very helpful

You cannot help but love the simplicity. Can a code Snippet do this as well?

Love the simplicity


Great plugin to allow you to make your term descriptions more visually appealing. It works just fine with WP 6.3 in lieu of implementing the block editor for term descriptions.


Great plugin - works with WP 6.3

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

Editor Buttons Simplified vs Visual Term Description Editor