Rich text

Rich text gives editors a small formatting editor for things like a writer bio or a book description: bold, links, headings and lists, without the full block editor. The value is stored as HTML.

Choosing the formatting

Editor features lists the formatting editors can use: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, links, inline code, headings, bulleted and numbered lists, blockquotes, code blocks, horizontal rules and images. Turn on only what the content needs. A bio needs bold, italic and links; it doesn't need headings.

The toolbar shows only the features you've enabled. The saved HTML is also cleaned to match, so markup a disabled feature would produce is removed on save, even if it was pasted in. Turning a feature off later strips that formatting from each entry the next time it's saved.

Open links in a new tab adds target="_blank" to links editors create.

Length limits

Min length and Max length count the visible text, not the HTML tags.

Rich text or the post content?

If a post type has one main body of text, use WordPress's own content editor. Rich text is for additional formatted fields, such as a short summary next to the main content, or formatted text inside a Repeater row.

Related

• Markdown, for teams who prefer to write Markdown
• Text and Textarea, for plain text
• Code, for markup an editor should see as markup

Technical details for LLMs

• Type key: rich_text. Settings: enable_bold, enable_italic, enable_link, enable_code, enable_heading, enable_bullet, enable_ordered, enable_blockquote (default on); enable_underline, enable_strike, enable_code_block, enable_rule, enable_image (default off); link_target_blank, placeholder, default_value (HTML), minlength / maxlength (text length).
• Stored: HTML string, sanitized on every save path through wp_kses with an allowlist derived from the enabled features (javascript: URIs and event handlers always removed). Widen with vxframework/fieldsets/rich_text/allowed_tags.
• Output: ability reads return the sanitized HTML string; PHP \VxFramework\render_rich_text(); dynamic tags render it as HTML.