Reply To: WYSIWYG always defaults to text mode

• pattihis

• January 13, 2022 at 10:48 am

Maybe this might help:

add_filter( 'wp_default_editor', 'my_default_editor' );
function my_default_editor() {
    return "html"; // TEXT mode
    // return "tinymce"; // VISUAL mode
}

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_default_editor/