A few weeks ago I published a post of my favorite Wordpress plugins. In that list I included a plugin called EditorMonkey. Unfortunately, the plugin turned out to be a lemon and was a real pain to remove. When I first tried to remove it by deactivating the plugin from the Wordpress admin panel, I could not restore the Wordpress TinyMCE editor and what remained was a meager toolbar that left me handcoding my posts in pure HTML. So, after scouring the internet blogs I was able to piece together a solution to remove the plugin and return Wordpress back to it’s original state. Enjoy!
- Deactivate the plugin from within the Wordpress admin panel.
- Go to your database, and search for the wp_usermeta table. Caution: be very careful making changes here! You can end up corrupting your entire site if you aren’t paying attention. Make sure to backup your site before proceeding.
- Browse within the wp_usermeta table and delete any entries that start with an em_ .
- Next, within the same table, go to the rich_editing field and set the value from false to true.
- Delete the plugin from your wp-content/plugins directory.
- Voila! EditorMonkey is gone and the default TinyMCE editor has returned.
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