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How to set HTML editor as the default editor in WordPress

WordPress Usually Comes with its default Visual Editor but most of people online likes the HTML Editor as Visual Editors is not that comfortable like the HTML Editor so i m going to tell you How to set HTML editor as the default editor in WordPress.

So today I m going to give you two ways :

Method 1 :

  1. Login to your Admin Panel
  2. then go to Users >> Your Profile
  3. In Your Profile Check the Check box of Visual Editor

    Visual Editor

    Heres A preview of what you have to do to Set HTML Editor as a Default Editor

  4. Then Click on Update Profile

Method 2 :

For this you just have to add the below code in the functions.php :

add_filter('wp_default_editor', create_function('', 'return "html";'));

Any of the above Methods will do your work , I have still seen many people prefer Visual Editor because as it is Default still many people not Comfortable with it.