Stephanie Leary

This plugin applies all content filters to posts and comments and saves them back to the database. This is useful if you have been using Textile or Markdown (for example) and you want to switch to plain HTML.
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USE THIS PLUGIN WITH CAUTION. If the results are not what you want, the damage will be irreparable unless you take the following precautions.
You should back up your database first — and be sure that you know how to restore from the backup!
If you are have plugins that allow you to use short codes — e.g. [thing] — you should deactivate them before running this conversion. Otherwise, that markup too will be converted to its HTML equivalent. (The built-in WordPress [gallery] tag should be fine.)
Once your conversion is complete, you should deactivate this plugin and reactivate your short code plugins.

Mass Format Conversion

Applies all content filters to posts and comments and saves them back to the database.

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.

Mass Format Conversion vs Visual Term Description Editor