Am I using the right hook for removing quicktags on the admin TinyMCE?

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This is more of an excercise than something for a client.

Anyway, I’m trying to disable the quicktags when you’re on the dashboard and you click on Comments > Edit Comment. On that screen, there’s a TinyMCE with quicktags and the textarea has an id of “content”.

I know in the WordPress core, this can be changed on line 67 of wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php by changing this:

wp_editor( $comment->comment_content, 'content', array( 'media_buttons' => false, 'tinymce' => false, 'quicktags' => $quicktags_settings ) );

To this (quicktags set to false):

wp_editor( $comment->comment_content, 'content', array( 'media_buttons' => false, 'tinymce' => false, 'quicktags' => false ) );

But I obviously don’t want to edit core and want to do this via filter/hook. This is what I tried.

function disable_tinymce_quicktags_comments ( $args ) {
  ob_start();
  $comment = get_comment_to_edit( $comment_id );
  wp_editor( $comment->comment_content, 'content', array( 'quicktags' => false ) );
  $args = ob_get_contents(); 
  ob_end_clean();
  return $args;
}

add_filter( 'admin_init', 'disable_tinymce_quicktags_comments' );

A var_dump of $args is revealing nothing after the return, and this is what the text editor looks like on the Edit Comment screen with this function happening:

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Am I just trying to achieve the impossible or am I just using the wrong hook? I’m still learning about hooks and PHP. Any suggestions? Thanks. 🙂

1 Answer
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After checking out the code, the best way to do this would be to use the wp_editor_settings filter in /wp-includes/class-wp-editor.php. When you call wp_editor() it internally makes a call to _WP_Editors::editor($content, $editor_id, $settings);. This function first passes the $settings array through parse_settings() which uses that filter.

add_filter( 'wp_editor_settings', 'remove_editor_quicktags', 10, 2 );
function remove_editor_quicktags( $settings, $id ){
    // $id will be 'content' in your example
    // use it in an if or make it gone for everything...

    // use $pagenow to determine if you are on the edit comments page.
    global $pagenow; 
    if ( $pagenow === 'comment.php' ){
        $settings['quicktags'] = false;
    }
    return $settings;
}

Note – I just realized this filter is new as of WordPress 4.0, so you will need it or newer to take advantage. This also affects all instances of TinyMCE on the admin.

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