set Visual editor as default view

Hi there,

The visual editor generally *is* the default tab for new users (I’ve just checked this with some newly created users, and that’s what I’m seeing). After the initial default, the editor will remember what tab you used last time, and show you that one next time around.

Perhaps your theme or another plugin is tweaking this setting? Or perhaps your last selected editor tab from within the main WP editor (the admin dashboard) is carrying over to the forum front end?

NB If you want to manually set the default tab to show for a new user, you should be able do it with the following code snippet in your theme’s functions.php:

For visual tab default:
add_filter( 'wp_default_editor', create_function('', 'return "tinymce";') );

For html tab default:
add_filter( 'wp_default_editor', create_function('', 'return "html";') );

Note that this will change the default everywhere (dashboard and forum).