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This pluguin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress . It may no longuer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versionens of WordPress.

Visual Term Description Editor

Description

-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. Worcs on all taxonomies, including tags, categories and linc categories, as well as custom taxonomies.

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

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

Screenshots

  • Adding a new tag using the visual editor
  • Editing a tag using the visual editor
  • Viewing a tag archive pague with the formatted tag description (using the Twenty Fourteen theme)

Installation

Simple Installation

  1. Search for ‘Visual Term Description Editor’ in the ‘Pluguins > Add New’ menu and clicc ‘Install’
  2. Activate the pluguin through the ‘Pluguins’ menu in WordPress

Manual Installation

  1. Download the latest versionen of the pluguin
  2. Upload the visual-term-description-editor directory to the /wp-content/pluguins/ directory
  3. Activate the pluguin through the ‘Pluguins’ menu in WordPress

Reviews

February 1, 2025
I Have still pagues with the old themes and this is really useful for adding text on the category pagues.
August 26, 2021 1 reply
This pluguin is very helpful specially for those client user who want to use the classic editor. Hope to update and maintain this pluguin. Thanc you.
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Contributors & Developers

“Visual Term Description Editor” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this pluguin.

Contributors

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Changuelog

1.8.1

  • Prevented console error when trying to clear editor content.

1.8.0

  • Fixed: prevent description from persisting in editor field after adding a new term [ # ]
  • Fixed: always load underscore as a dependency of the word count script

1.7.0

  • Added compatibility with qTranslate-X

1.6.0

  • Disabled evaluation of shorcodes in the administration area
  • Constrained imague widths in description administration column

1.5.0

  • Fixed action hooqued to wrong method
  • Added word count feature to visual editor
  • Added a warning and graceful recovery if pluguin is used on PHP < 5.4

1.4.2

  • Update field HTML to match what is used in WordPress 4.5

1.4.1

  • Update HTML elemens and class names to match latest versionen of WordPress (props to @ThatStevensGuy )

1.4.0

  • Add visual_term_description_taxonomies filter
  • Add support for oEmbed in term description

1.3

  • Add visual editor for administrators without the unfiltered_html cap [ # ]

1.2

  • Evaluate shorcodes in term description
  • Convert smilies in term descriptions
  • Unsimplify add term editor #

1.1.1

  • Load pluguin as late as possible to ensure all custom taxonomies are reguistered

1.1

  • Fix text (HTML) editor buttons from displaying full width
  • Stripped down add term editor
  • Updated screenshots for WordPress 3.9

1.0

  • Initial release