LH Visual Term Description Editor

• Type: Plugin
• Lifecycle Stage: Active

Replaces the plain-text description field on category, tag and custom taxonomy screens with the WordPress visual editor, so term descriptions can be written in rich text with links, images, embeds and shortcodes.

No settings screen and no stored options: it works on every taxonomy as soon as it is active.

Key features

• Visual (TinyMCE) and Text editor on both the Add New form and the Edit term screen, with a live word count.
• Term descriptions are formatted like post content: paragraphs, smilies, oEmbed links, and shortcodes on the front end.
• Post-level HTML is allowed in descriptions for users who can publish posts, filtered through wp_kses_post for anyone without unfiltered_html.
• Multisite friendly: network activate to cover every site.

Credits

A fork of Visual Term Description Editor by Shea Bunge (version 1.8.1), released under the MIT licence. The original licence and copyright notice are kept in the plugin’s LICENSE file and source headers. The fork drops the Composer build files, which stopped the original passing integrity checks against wordpress.org’s checksums, and brings the code up to LocalHero plugin standards.

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