Disable TinyMCE on taxonomy descriptions?

Hi @swedish-boy

Previous post: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/no-way-of-disabling-the-tinymce-editor-added-to-description-on-term-php-screen/

There aren’t filter for this (also, you can’t get instance of object WPSEO_Taxonomy). If you set taxonomy as private, then Yoast SEO doesn’t show metabox/description editor. From other side, there are bug related to it – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/error-in-taxonomy-with-set-public-is-false/

It could be feature request, so you can create a new feature request at https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/new.

I just found filter into WP core:

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/hooks/wp_editor_settings/

So, it’s possible to “customize” wp editor. I mean, it’s possible to remove html. Something like this:

function my_taxonomy_editor_settings( $settings, $editor_id ) {

        if ( $editor_id == 'description' ) {
                $settings[ 'tinymce' ] = false;
                $settings[ 'wpautop' ] = false;
                $settings[ 'media_buttons' ] = false;
                $settings[ 'quicktags' ] = false;  
                $settings[ 'default_editor' ] = '';      
        }
                    
        return $settings;
}
                        
add_filter( 'wp_editor_settings', 'my_taxonomy_editor_settings', 10, 2 );

I didn’t test this and I don’t know for side effects. Maybe, you need to add additional condition as:

WPSEO_Taxonomy::is_term_edit( $GLOBALS['pagenow'] ) or something similar based on $pagenow

I hope that helps.

Sasa

Thank you for your answers. The later is actually a solution I for some reason didn’t think of. It of course is possible to disable tinyMCE completely with wp-hooks for a specific section. ??

But this topic is still not resolved!!!