To remove the ability to switch between the ‘Text’ tab and ‘Visual’ tab on the top right, the documentation says to use a false ‘quicktags’ element of the $settings parameter array (“Set to false to remove your editor’s Visual and Text tabs.”)

When I use this method to hide ‘Text’ and ‘Visual’ tabs, I need to use the mce_buttons filter to determine which bold,underline, etc buttons are shown – and this applies to ALL wp_editor() thingos I use:

add_filter("mce_buttons", "tinymce_editor_buttons", 99);
add_filter("mce_buttons_2", "tinymce_editor_buttons_second_row", 99);
function tinymce_editor_buttons($buttons) {
	// by exclusion:
	foreach(array('strikethrough','blockquote','hr','alignleft','alignright','aligncenter','wp_more','fullscreen','wp_adv') as $toRemove) {
		$key = array_search($toRemove,$buttons);
		if ($key!==false) unset($buttons[$key]);
	}
	return $buttons;
	
	// or by inclusion:
	
	return array('bold','italic','numlist','bullist');

}

function tinymce_editor_buttons_second_row($buttons) {
   //return an empty array to remove this line
    return array();
}

I tried controlling which buttons are displayed using wp_editor’s $settings parameter’s shortcode like this:

wp_editor(
$content,
$editor_id,
array(
‘quicktags’ => array(
‘buttons’ => ‘link,ins,img,close’
)
)
)

but this did not work for me, and even if I could use this method, the $quicktags is no longer == false, so the different tabs are displayed.

I thought about putting some conditions inside the filter code above to return a different $buttons array when different pages are being loaded, but I want to separately control several wp_editor() fields on the one page, so this technique would not work.

How can I control on a case by case basis which buttons and editor tabs are displayed in wp_editor?

wp_editor(
    $content,
    $editor_id,
    array(
      'media_buttons' => false,
      'tinymce' => array(
        'theme_advanced_buttons1' => 'bold, italic',
      ),
    )
);

but it just shows up the full set of default tinymce buttons int the editor.