January 21, 2009 | In: Development, Wordpress
TinyMCE & WordPress 2.7 – Advanced Plugin
I went through the pain of turning on table creation and editing abilities within TinyMCE that is included in the default installation of WordPress. It was not fun, but hopefully someone benefited from my experience and research.
Now I’ve found that a new plugin is available for WordPress 2.7. It’s called TinyMCE Advanced. It promises:
- Imports all CSS classes from the main theme stylesheet and add them to a drop-down list.
- Support for making and editing tables.
- In-line css styles.
- Advanced link and image dialogs that offer a lot of options.
- Search and Replace while editing.
- Support for XHTML specific tags and for (div based) layers.
The importing of CSS classes from the theme stylesheet and table management alone makes this a great plugin. The rest is just gravy.
I just installed this plugin and it is working great so far. The settings panel in WordPress even gives you a drag and drop interface for adding and managing all the TinyMCE features across four toolbars. I REALLY wish I’d have known about this plugin before trying to add table management manually to my WordPress site.
5 Responses to TinyMCE & WordPress 2.7 – Advanced Plugin
Mister Peabody
April 9th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Have you any issues with the TinyMCE visual editor buttons not displaying — when TinyMCE Advanced is activated? But then the visual editor buttons reappearing after Advanced is deactivated?
Trey Connell
April 14th, 2009 at 8:05 am
@Peabody – Not so far. Are you seeing it in a particular browser?
Mister Peabody
April 14th, 2009 at 11:24 am
A-ha! For those searching for TinyMCE Advanced issue/question resolutions and come across your post about TinyMCE Advanced and WordPress 2.7:
If you’re upgrading from a previous version of TinyMCE Advanced (TM-A) and your visual editor buttons do not appear (especially if you cannot see the HTML buttons).
1. Deactivate old TM-A version.
2. Install and activate new TM-A version.
3. If buttons do not appear (especially if you cannot see the HTML buttons!!!):
4. Go to Settings > TinyMCE Advanced (/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=tinymce-advanced) scroll to the bottom of this page, and select the Uninstall button. NOTE: Make a note or screenshot of your button arrangement, because your settings will be erased now.
5. Re-set up the button arrangement.
6. Open a (new) post or page and see buttons reappear!
It worked for us on multiple WordPress updated sites, even behind a big honking proxy, which has caused TM-A issues in the past.
Trey Connell
April 14th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Very nice @Peabody! Thanks for following up with the fix. I guess I never saw it since I wasn’t upgrading TinyMCE Advanced but installing it for the first time.
cardbaba
September 29th, 2011 at 1:32 am
i am facing a problem with wordpress default editor i.e it is not showing up the toolbar…