wpessential / visual-term-description-editor

WordPress Plugin — Replaces the plain-text term (category, tag) description editor with a WYSIWYG visual editor

Visual Term Description Editor

• Requires at least: WordPress 3.3 or later
• Tested up to: WordPress 5.0
• Stable version: 1.8.0
• License: MIT

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.

Installation

Simple Installation

1. Search for 'Visual Term Description Editor' in the 'Plugins > Add New' menu and click 'Install'
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

Manual Installation

1. Download the latest version of the plugin from WordPress.org
2. Upload the visual-term-description-editor directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

Development Installation

1. Clone this GitHub repository locally or download a zip of the latest release
2. Move the plugin directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Install Composer if not already installed and run composer install within the plugin directory
4. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

Screenshots

Adding a new tag using the visual editor

Editing a tag using the visual editor

Viewing a tag archive page with the formatted tag description (using the Twenty Fourteen theme)