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            Using the Visual Editor for creating or editing posts in <span id="urn:local-text-annotation-7qhh8d7mna8bciyuem7x9hubdl56h8uz" class="textannotation wl-no-link disambiguated wl-thing" itemid="http://data.wordlift.io/wl0226/entity/wordpress_2">WordPress</span> is quick and easy, but if you prefer to write your own <span id="urn:local-text-annotation-2uks5eirqw6v7zbohn5c2b7rdq3ady14" class="textannotation wl-no-link disambiguated wl-thing" itemid="http://data.wordlift.io/wl0226/entity/html">HTML</span> in  your posts, switching to the HTML editor every time you create a new post or edit a post can be annoying, but with our simple guide below you can change the default editor to be the HTML editor:

In your Dashboard, hover over ‘Appearance’ and select ‘Editor’:

At the right, select ‘Theme Functions’ (functions.php) Once the editor loads, insert the following code:
add_filter( 'wp_default_editor', create_function('', 'return "html";') );

Click on ‘Update File’.

The HTML Editor will now be the default instead of the Visual Editor.

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