Visual Term Description Editor
Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor.
5(21 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Visual Term Description Editor is a WordPress tags plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 21 reviews. It has been downloaded 97K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 15% this week. Top alternative: Media Library Assistant.
5/521 reviews
20K+active installs
97K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
-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.
This plugin’s code is available on GitHub. Please feel free to fork the repository and send a pull request. If you find a bug in the plugin, open an issue.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
still very useful
by Daniel·1 year ago
I Have still pages with the old themes and this is really useful for adding text on the category pages.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Daniel.
Great plugin – works with WP 6.3
by Hugh Lashbrooke·2 years ago
Great plugin to allow you to make your term descriptions more visually appealing. It works just fine with WP 6.3 in lieu of implementing the block editor for term descriptions.
Great plugin!
by marcomassimo·3 years ago·1 reply
Very simple and useful
Love the simplicity
by Verdi Heinz·3 years ago
You cannot help but love the simplicity. Can a code Snippet do this as well?
This is very helpful
by Jayson Garcia·4 years ago·1 reply
This plugin is very helpful specially for those client user who want to use the classic editor. Hope to update and maintain this plugin. Thank you.
Download Trends
Today: 11Yesterday: 15This week: 110Period total: 10K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.8
97.7%
Other
2.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.8.1
- Prevented console error when trying to clear editor content.
Contributors
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