# VisualEditor Reviews **Vendor:** MediaWiki **Category:** [WYSIWYG Editors](https://www.g2.com/categories/wysiwyg-editors) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 26 ## About VisualEditor VisualEditor gives you the ability to edit without needing to learn wikitext markup, as is required by the default wikitext editor. ## VisualEditor Reviews ### 1. Amazing and best user-friendly application for coder **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajay B. | Associate Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2023 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** Being software developer, every developer needs application that can clearly visualise coding files into systematic manner. Visual editor is one of them application which can structured your coding data in properly color format so that easy to know the coding part commented part etc. as their formatting feature. Easy to integrate full project with the path of single files separated. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** There is nothing dislike about this application as it's contain best features that I believe and used as coder. It's been easy to instal and use this application. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Previously I used simple text editor which is showing text as normal. And all coding text is looks as paragraph or simple text. But now using visual editor, it's been easy for me to differentiate code properly. That it contains different Color's for methods, functions, variables, etc. so it's easy for me to understand the code. ### 2. VisualEditor-what you see is what you get **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amir U. | Database Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2023 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** Magical Formatting: VisualEditor can automatically format your text in the most visually pleasing and aesthetically appealing way. It effortlessly transforms your content into beautifully organized paragraphs, headings, and lists. Intelligent Content Suggestions: This incredible feature predicts what you want to write and suggests relevant content. It saves you time and effort by providing ready-to-use snippets and suggestions for your articles, making editing a breeze. Real-time Collaboration: VisualEditor allows multiple users to edit a page simultaneously, fostering seamless collaboration. You can see the changes made by others in real time, making it easy to work together and create content collaboratively. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** Limited Customization: VisualEditor cannot fully customize the editing interface. Users who prefer specific features or layout options may find themselves restricted by the predetermined design of the tool. Complex Formatting: While VisualEditor aims to simplify the editing process, achieving advanced or complex formatting can still be challenging. Users who require precise control over the layout or intricate design may find visual editor's options limited. Compatibility Issues: VisualEditor may not be fully compatible with specific browser versions or configurations. Users who encounter compatibility issues may experience glitches, slow performance, or even an inability to access the editing interface. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** VisualEditor provides a user-friendly and intuitive interface, making it easy for both new and experienced editors to create and edit content. Its familiar WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor allows users to directly manipulate the content visually, without needing to learn complex markup language. ### 3. VisualEditor Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankit S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2023 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** Visual Editor is a free code editor that helps in writing code. Visual Editor is a time-saving tool that enables you to maintain and edit your code. It also helps in debugging and correctness of code. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** With a visual editor a content area this limited and you can want to use the same on multiple pages you may need to copy and paste. Other than that according to me it's perfect. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** You don't need to be a developer to build a website with a visual editor platform. You can simply create a website by drag and drop, what you see is what you get. So you don't want to know much code, this tool is great for you if you don't want to invest your time in learning. ### 4. A software not just for programming needs but also for all other essential texting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ananth G. | Assistant Professor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2023 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** It is a good text, word based editor. Easy to use. Helps during coding as well. It is a WYSIWYG software. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** It could have built in sync with code repositories like Github or Gitlab. Synchronisation of files across cloud services could be a great property. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Editing programs using VE is a great thing. Especially the code color highlighting along with display of line number is a great thing. I recommend the same software to the place where I work. ### 5. Excellent Text Editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2023 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** The auto-save feature makes online editing robust against accidental data losses. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** The navigation bars are a little disorganized for new users. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** VisualEditor supports rich formats and powerful toolings, allowing me to create and maintain online documentation much more efficiently as an editor and reader. ### 6. " Superb Word Processor " **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin N. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** It is the best and most advanced online rich text editor. It is the existing WYSIWYG HTML written JavaScript that allow its developer to invite people to view,edit and leave a comment on your file. It support drag and drop , copy and paste which does not change the font of the editor. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** Nothing to complain this far,it has all we require to have rich text edition. **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** I recommend VisualEditor software to you all considering it, hence the best. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Editing text via rich text enabled tool. Receiving comments on our files from those who viewed them Being the best word processor ever. Dragging and dropping text. Copying and pasting which eases work. Being flexible and always available. Having pleasant interface and intrusive design. Being lightweight tool to integrate with others. ### 7. Great experience with use with content management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2020 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** Usability is very simple for it's simple to download. See friendly with editing contents. Reliable with content management Ensure security of editing web pages. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** Good software and easy to use with content management **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** Yes it incredible for content editing and good for editing web pages **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Content management is so cool and love it. Reliable with editing web pages. Easy to use and most intuitive user interface. Reliable with plugins which makes it easy to build strong website ### 8. Am so great to have used this editor with content management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** George B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2020 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** Makes it easy to edit contents on my web pages. So intuitive and interesting software to use Great day with intergration with plugins It's have a good user interface. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** No any bad influence while using the editor. **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** Very considerate with content collaboration and easy to create web pages. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to create and edit web pages. Useful with content management Intergration with plugins makes its useful with collaboration with social media platforms. ### 9. The editor which edits Wikipedia! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandarbh A. | Full Stack Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** WYSIWYG Editors allows me to see the design as they are build. The way it can edit pages without the knowledge of HTML which in turn gives me the time to evaluate and plan the design rather than focusing on the HTML code which saves a lot of time for the development team. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** The backend HTML code generated by Visual Editor are hard to read and doesn't comply with the W3C standards. Its also tough to market oneself on the basis of particular WYSIWYG Editor without proper knowledge of HTML. Controlling particular elements with the editor is tough and we need to retort to HTML coding for more precise designing. **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** If you're not comfortable with HTML and coding it's recommended to use VisualEditor for a hassle free setup. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** The vast coding part has been reduced to minimum and thus saving a lot of time and overhead testing. VisualEditor as being a part of MediaWiki and works in the core of Wikipedia we had the chance to realize it's potential even before using and implementing it in our company. ### 10. An amazing WYSIWYG editor that meets all requirements. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rafael F. | Chief Financial Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2019 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** VisualEditor is a great WYSIWYG editor that allows you to develop attractive websites within a short time. It has a friendly interface thus making it easy to use. I like the customer support team behind this editor, they always respond within short time. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** It has never been challenging. VisualEditor has been a great platform for web development. No complains at all. **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** VisualEditor is a nice tool that meets all our requirements. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easy to use and the features are highly customizable. It is easy to drag and drop items and content on web. VisualEditor support team is readily available 24.7.365. ### 11. VisualEditor as the Reliable Web Designer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike J. | Web Developer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2019 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** The process of implementation takes long for most of software, but with VisualEditor, it is so immediate and has no major drawback. Two, the tool works in a simple way, because it has features that allows the developer to create the page they want. Finally, VisualEditor has a great interface with colors. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** Different from many applications, VisualEditor can be termed as faultless, and it makes every user happy. Again, the vendor has a friendly support team. **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** Without any fear or contradiction, VisualEditor is a tool that is worth to have. In fact, it turns your business into a giant of the time. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We desired to be a company with super incredible website, which has all the information regarding our company. Furthermore, any time we want to change some content, we also needed that tool which will understand us. VisualEditor does all these. ### 12. Total Updates with VisualEditor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin T. | Database Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** The significance of having an in-house service of web making course is that the cost of production is significance reduced, and also, there is no time or resource wastage, and in the case of our company, VisualEditor is the product. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** The upsides of VisualEditor exceeds the downsides of this application, and hence, we could largely support this application. **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** VisualEditor is more than a software, and it is a partner. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having somebody to understand the moves that we make in any case is something fruitful for VisualEditor. ### 13. WYSIWYG that is highly recommended. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh K. | Solutions director , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2019 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** VisualEditor has many templates. It also has a variety of editing tools. You can see how a content look like as you edit. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** VisualEditor can be slow when uploading large files. You require skills to use the software **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** I would advice them to start implementing VisualEditor beacause it has features that are compelling and which cannot be found in another software. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use VisualEditor to create web pages. It allow you to see how a post will look like ones posted. Easy to point out errors even before you publish a post. ### 14. A complete and flexible WYSIWYG editor. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mounika B. | Data scientist , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2019 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** Easy to implement and powerful plugin. It integrate well with other servers. It is easy and free. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** Would say they improve in bugs and other missing features. **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** Implement visual editor today it is the best of all. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use in creating content. It is cheap and affordable to anyuser. ### 15. Making Editing Easy With VisualEditor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Johnson J. | IT Specialist, Construction, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2019 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** I have used VisualEditor and I must admit it's all about perfection. From UI, to it's many features, everything is great. You just have to try it as an IT guru. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** Nothing really. VisualEditor is amazing and a must have. **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** You need VisualEditor as an IT expert. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Makes web editing easy and saves time. ### 16. Visual editor is the the most effective text files editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** Visual editor has more tools which guarantee greater customizability **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** A post may appear ok in the editor but look different ones you publish it due to errors in the way themes are coded **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** I recommend visial editor to everyone who is looking forward to creating a successful business empire **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I uses visual editor to create web contents Visual editor is easy tk use You can see how a content will look like ones you publish it ### 17. Visual editor review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shikhil b. | Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2018 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** It is very lightweight. Can practice many languages like angular on it very easily. No need to install whole visual studio package. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** It is not supporting all the coding languages. But yes almost can edit many popular programming languages. But not provided all the features like what we can have in visual studio. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am learning angular on visual editor. I am very comfortable with vs editor, even console output is showing on bottom. Ledt hand showing whole directory of project files. ### 18. Visual editor-"New editor for mediawiki" **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas A. | it resercher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2018 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** Visual editor decrease the hardness of editing in Wikipedia and make smooth.visual editor enable me to enter a length text in very easily and quickly. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** Sometimes it take too much time to load the site which seems to solving in the recent updates and Sometimes it doesn't allows to edit completely the structure and the definition list. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am not using visual editor for solving my business problems but to increase my knowledge and to help others to increase their knowledge. ### 19. It is a very good program to edit **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos Alberto M. | Director Creativo y de Marketing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2018 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** It helps me a lot that I can program in HTML, it's very easy to use and install. It has a high variety of languages ​​within its tools. It's really great! **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** It is a bit slow in its operation. The browsers must be updated so that the application does not slow down. **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** Any user can use VisualEditor. My recommendation is always to have the browsers updated, and preferably that the browser is Chrome or Firefox **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** The edition for international clients. It is very beneficial for the company to have previews of the website before starting it ### 20. A very good text editor for programming **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Georges R. | Ingénieur informaticien, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2018 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** Visual Editor is very cool, we can program in HTML and with Node.js for example, this is easy to use and to install. Visual Editor is a very rich text editor. There is a lot of languages in the program, which eery users can change it or using it for international client for example ! We can use it on some main name space like in MediaWiki for example. This is a very cool product and we can create a lot of things with it ! **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** When I use it, there is only one problem : when I try to launch my website with Visual Editor, it take some time for launching it, and it can be a problem for current user who wants to create dynamic website and use this rich text editor Visual Editor for a long time everyday. Another problem appeared, but for this, it's my fault : if you want to use Visual Editor, don't forget to update every browsers you have for a full compatibility, because Visual Editor works with the last update of Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. If you don't uptdate your browsers, problems will be appears. It works good with Firefox and Chrome, not a lot with Opera Browser, I'll advise you to choose Firefox or Chrome for a good compatibility for your project. **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** I recommend Visual Editor for anyone who wants to create website without developping or a little, the only one thing I can say is don't forget to update your browser it's very important for a good compatibility ! So, I recommend Visual Editor because it's a good product for everyone and easy to use. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Visual Editor, we can preview our website before launching it, it's useful and a very good things for programmers, users, and clients. ### 21. Artis' Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2018 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** It is a very user-friendly seamless application. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** It can be limiting for creative uses and doesn't always integrate well with other software **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** Ease of Use **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Meeting the needs of user websites ### 22. VisualEditor **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ibrahim A. C. | Vice President - IT, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2018 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** The amazing capability of the editor is to handle rich-text in very quick and easy manners. Wikipedia old code is pretty hard to understand, VisualEditor was created 12 years ago, this is biggest change to Wikipedia. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** Most annoying bug is Remove Line Feed characters in title. **Recommendations to others considering VisualEditor:** Support should be quick **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using this very effective tool to easily keep business information update and so the customers to be can easily find us. ### 23. Great tool, easy to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2018 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** It makes it much easier to take advantage of advanced features, and saves time entering even basic text. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** Formatting doesn’t always transfer over from Word, and the theme can effect how text actually displays, but all in all a great product. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Staff members without as much training can easily use the advanced features. This saves time across the board! ### 24. Visual Editor is a must have! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2018 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** I like how easy it is to use and create. I edit and design a lot of logos and social media posts and I use this every day! **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** It doesn’t have as many features as Adobe illustrator or something like that but because I use it along with the Adobe programs it is awesome. It still does the trick. I don’t use it anymore since upgrading software but it still is a great program I’d always recommend. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ease of creating is awesome. Every day you have a brand new slate to design and create in and it makes it easy to start from scratch or work on something you already have. ### 25. WYSWG **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt L. | Marketing, Real Estate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** Great visual editor! definitely what you see is what you get for this. Makes it much easier to edit without having to touch any code **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** Limited functionality with just WordPress **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making it easier to edit my website without code ### 26. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about VisualEditor?** I like how simple it is to use VisualEditor to customize various texts and copy. **What do you dislike about VisualEditor?** There isn't really anything I dislike, it's easy to use and has simple tools. **What problems is VisualEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** VisualEditor allows me to solve the business problem of quickly editing copy for a website. I've realized it benefits me by being efficient and quick to edit. ## VisualEditor Discussions - [Is it possible to have a manual for new users on how to launch it?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-it-possible-to-have-a-manual-for-new-users-on-how-to-launch-it) - 1 upvote - [View VisualEditor pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/visualeditor/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-05+19%3A13%3A26+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b75e64eb-1a3a-4b73-9d51-50372936973b&secure%5Btoken%5D=fbb88f85646c2b8061a2dc5c8f5f9e9d638d0d17c3fc6f793462a0c0251d12b8&format=llm_user) ## VisualEditor Features **Customizations** - Responsive Design - HTML Input - Drag and Drop **Content** - Templates - Content Management - Page Preview **Functionality** - Plugins and integrations - Cross-platform support - Cross-Browser Suppoer - Collaborative editing **Agentic AI - WYSIWYG Editors** - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top VisualEditor Alternatives - [TinyMCE](https://www.g2.com/products/tinymce/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (115 reviews) - [Froala Editor](https://www.g2.com/products/froala-editor/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (179 reviews) - [Summernote](https://www.g2.com/products/summernote/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (38 reviews)