Remove HTML editor and visual/HTML tabs from TinyMCE

Question

Is it possible to remove the Visual \ HTML tabs from wp_editor and display only the TinyMCE editor?

Basically, right now, I'm using wp_editor to display the smallest possible TinyMCE editor I can - only one button is needed, italics.

What I'd like to do is make that smaller by removing the Visual \ HTML tabs. Our authors won't ever need the HTML editor and the custom buttons I'm creating will only be accessible from the visual editor.

NOTE: For reasons found here, I can't use the teeny argument of wp_editor.

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

Just set 'quicktags' parameter of the settings array to false.

wp_editor('', 'some-id', array('quicktags' => false) );

Answer 2

You can hide both from view using this code in your theme's functions.php file:

//Hide Post Page Options from ALL users
function hide_all_post_page_options() {
global $post;
$hide_all_post_options = "<style type=\"text/css\"> #content-html, #content-tmce { display: none !important; }</style>";
print($hide_all_post_options);
}
add_action( 'admin_head', 'hide_all_post_page_options'  );

Answer 3

The code provided by ungestaltbar works great, but I wanted it to work for bbPress (2.2.x) as well. I found this to be very easy and clean as well;

In the template files (only copy the files you need from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress to your theme folder, into a folder called bbpress, for example wp-content/themes/mytheme/bbpress) you'll find numerous calls to:

bbp_the_content( array( 'context' => 'reply' ) );

In your template files replace a call like this with (ie. add: 'quicktags' => false);

bbp_the_content( array( 'context' => 'reply', 'quicktags' => false ) );

The calls can be found in all form-xyz.php files.