By default, the WordPress backend editor opens in the “Visual” view when editing posts, pages, and so on. At this point, I’ve essentially moved my entire writing workflow to plain-text Markdown with no formatting.

Every time I head to the WordPress backend to publish an article, I have to click “Text” first before I can paste in my content. It’s just too tedious.

So, as per the usual routine, let’s tweak the WordPress default settings and switch the editor’s default view to “HTML/Text.”

Add the following to your current WordPress theme’s functions.php:

add_filter('wp_default_editor', create_function('', 'return "html";'));

And that’s it — done.