1. Dec 26th, 2005

    Advanced editing for WordPress 2.0

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    One of the best features in WordPress 2.0 is WYSIWYG post editing. It takes the pain out of formatting, linking and adding images.

    WordPress 2.0 comes with a bunch of editing buttons, but not enough for what I need it to do. So I dug into the source code and found out there are hooks for adding more controls. After playing with it for a few minutes, I was able to add buttons for:

    • Selecting formats: paragraph, formatted, headers, etc.
    • Underline, subscript, super script, full justification.
    • Copy, cut, paste.
    • Insert table.
    • Foreground color, background color.
    • Character map.
    • Full screen editing.

    I created a simple plugin that automagically adds all these buttons. Download advanced-wysiwyg.php into your wp-content/plugins directory and activate. Enjoy!

    PS: The table controls and full screen editing rely on additional TinyMCE plugins. So if you want these two features as well, you’ll have to download TinyMCE plugins and install those separately. For WordPress 2.0.4 users, try the TinyMCE 2.0 RC4 plugins. Or check the comments to find out what works for other people.

    Update: I added two more filter functions. If you find that the toolbar is too wide, you can move the buttons to a second and even third toolbar (or add more buttons as you please).

    Update: Thanks to Andy, we now have French support.

    1. Dec 27th, 2005

      Mike

      This didn’t work for me. I loaded the plugin and uploaded the missing TimyMCE plugins into the MCE plugins directory. Any thoughts?

    2. Dec 29th, 2005

      Chad

      Plug in works great, thanks!

    3. Dec 30th, 2005

      Terrance

      I’ve got all the buttons I want, but they’re all on one row.

      I added two more filter functions. If you find that the toolbar is too wide, you can move the buttons to a second and even third toolbar (or add more buttons as you please).

      So, how does one do this? I need further instruction to make this happen.

    4. Dec 30th, 2005

      Terrance

      I figured it out. The only problem is I can’t get the iespell button to show up after adding it to the TinyMCE directory and editing the plugin to include it. Unfortunately that’s the one feature I wanted most.

    5. Dec 30th, 2005

      Assaf

      after adding ‘iespell’ to the plugins list and the buttons list, the button shows up when using IE. clicking on the button takes me to a download page. since I use FireFox and a spellchecker extension, I didn’t investigate further.

    6. Dec 31st, 2005

      Brian Bonner

      I must be dense, the buttons run under the menu items, and I don’t see anyway to edit this option. I downloaded tinymce and uploaded all the plugins that came with it. I don’t know how to activate the plugins, if that is necessary. The docs for this editor is a gigantic mess IMO. I have customized my quicktags and want to integrate all the functions I have added to the editor. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

    7. Jan 1st, 2006

      Assaf

      In advacned-wysiwyg.php, the function extended_editor_mce_plugins is responsible for enabling TinyMCE plugins. If you want to enable a new plugin, add its name to the array. By default two plugins are enabled:

      function extended_editor_mce_plugins($plugins) {
          array_push($plugins, "table", "fullscreen");
          return $plugins;
      }

      For some plugins, you will also have to add a button to activate the plugin. Try adding a button with the same name as the plugin, if that doesn’t work, you’ll have to look at the docs.

    8. Jan 2nd, 2006

      Raoul

      This is one of the best plugins I’ve found so far for WP2. I badly needed to add some more buttons to the formatting bar. This plugin provides clear info on how to do it. Thanks!

    9. Jan 2nd, 2006

      Peter

      Excellent plug in! Thank you. One problem though…

      *Everything* works perfectly except the Insert Table button appears, is clickable, pops up and presents all the table options. However, it never actually inserts a table. Clicking OK just dismisses the pop-up.

      I am using FireFox 1.5 and Wordpress 2.0 (released version) on a Linux server.

      Any ideas?

    10. Jan 2nd, 2006

      Assaf

      I can’t get the table popup to work either, under WP 2.0 and FireFox 1.5.

    11. Jan 5th, 2006

      Chris

      This is an excellent plugin. Great work.

      Has anybody set it up with SpellerPages v1 for TinyMCE?

      I did that yesterday and everything works great except the spell checker removes line breaks. Are there any experts interested in helping me out with thi$?

    12. Jan 5th, 2006

      Andy

      Hi Assaf,
      Great stuff! All is working perfectly for me even the table plugin. I just changed line 22 like this: array_push($plugins, “table”, “fullscreen”); and replaced the comment line 39 with: return array(”tablecontrols”);
      The buttons are on a second line, but it all works in FF1.5 and IE6.
      Of course, after that, I had to get it working with a french translation. Because of the directory structures, there are several lang files dispatched here and there. To make this available to other french language WP users, the best way is to zip up the whole “js” directory together with your plugin and a simple readme. Do you mind if I redistribute your plugin in this way via a link on the french WP support forum? Of course, all the credit’s are yours. I can send on a zip for you to distribute from here if you so wish.
      Best wishes for 2006.

    13. Jan 5th, 2006

      Assaf

      "Do you mind if I redistribute your plugin in this way via a link on the french WP support forum?"

      Not at all. It would be great to have the plugin distributed in more places.

      Can you e-mail me a link when you’re done? I’ll link back to it from this post.

    14. Jan 5th, 2006

      Andy

      Well, thanks, the topic on the french support forum is here
      http://www.wordpress-fr.net/support/viewtopic.php?id=391 and the zip for download is located here http://www.5secondes.com/downloads/WP2%20plugins/tinymce_fr_pour_WP2.rar
      By just overwriting the “js” directory and installing your plugin, french users get the extended bar and the table plugin on a second line, the whole translated into french.

    15. Jan 13th, 2006

      Saiajin

      ” Terrance Says:
      December 30th, 2005 at 8:31 am

      I’ve got all the buttons I want, but they’re all on one row.

      I added two more filter functions. If you find that the toolbar is too wide, you can move the buttons to a second and even third toolbar (or add more buttons as you please). ”

      I can’t figure out ow to split my buttons over 2 bars..I see the code but don’t know where to paste the buttons lst ..I have tried duplicate the lines in the code abpve but too no avail…

      Tell me how to do it!!!

      BTW This is the best thing to happen to my blog since sliced bread…Thank you!!

    16. Jan 16th, 2006

      Assaf

      say you want to add the insert table and fullscreen buttons to the second line. remove these items from the array in extended_editor_mce_buttons, and rewrite extended_editor_mce_buttons_2 to return them instead:

      function extended_editor_mce_buttons_2($buttons) {
          return array("table", "fullscreen");
      }
      
    17. Jan 17th, 2006

      Jeff

      The only problem is the font color editor…and the css don’t really mix.

    18. Jan 17th, 2006

      Jeff

      Just curious , is it possible to inster css codes for font editor? would this be better?

    19. Jan 17th, 2006

      Jeff

      insert* sorry.

    20. Jan 22nd, 2006

      Bill

      Coupla questions:

      1. I actually don’t see the default WYSIWIG editor in WP 2.0. Is there something missing?

      2. When I go to downloand the plug-in I get an “Oops!” page and no download. Is there a link/page missing?

      Bill

    21. Jan 22nd, 2006

      Assaf

      Bill,

      In the WordPress administration page you need select the Users panel and at the bottom you’ll see an option to enable the visual rich editor.

      I’ve seen one case where the visual editor doesn’t work, when WordPress 2.0 is running on PHP3.

      Apparently something went wrong with the download section. I’m fixing it right now.

      assaf

    22. Jan 26th, 2006

      Mark

      I got the tables to work!

      The trick was to replace the Wordpress standard tiny_mce_popup.js wi the one that comes with the latest TinyMCE.

      When I did that, the java errors went away and it works! :)

    23. Jan 27th, 2006

      Saiajin

      Hi I saw that U had answered my psot about the moving buttons to the next bar…When re activated the plug in I couldn’t get it to work..so re-installed the fesh plugin and got:

      $buttons; } ?>
      Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/g13/public_html/g13blog/wp-content/plugins/advacned-wysiwyg.php:49) in /home/g13/public_html/g13blog/wp-admin/inline-uploading.php on line 138

      I tried reinstalling a couple times

      so I haven’t been able to get that far…….
      So I’m back to editor monkey….. I just liked the fact that with this I could add other functions I wanted but I needed to put them on another line it was pushing past & under all my settings modules on the right….but this is too much pain..LOL

    24. Jan 28th, 2006

      Saiajin

      hmm looks like Tiny MCE in WP 2.0 WYSIWYG Editor is broken? I can’t seem to get it to work right even with this plugin off now…could it be just for editing previous posts? a problem I seemed to be having with the previous version of WP was a browser hang up… but only when editing…that went away with 2.0…maybe it’s just having trouble seeing previous encoding I did previously with other editors?still experimanting but right concerned with keep my site working as much as possible so we’ll experiment in wee hours….

    25. Feb 1st, 2006

      Merlin

      Loved the Plug-In – Just upgraded to WP 2.01 and it now is broken. Did all the same steps I did in the past but the new buttons do not show up. PLEASE PLEASE can you update your plugin.

    26. Feb 1st, 2006

      Assaf

      Thanks for letting me know.

      Apparently there are some upgrades to the WYSIWYG interface that might have broken it. I’ll have time on the weekend to do an upgrade, fix what’s broken and do a new release.

    27. Feb 3rd, 2006

      Merlin

      Thanks for the Very Quick Response – Looking forward to it – I really do miss the extra buttons.

    28. Feb 3rd, 2006

      Bill

      For some reason, it only works in IE (perhaps because I’m using FF 1.7), but other than that every thing works great. I love it!

    29. Feb 6th, 2006

      Assaf

      sorry, I have to push this back another week.

    30. Feb 13th, 2006

      Rich

      Thanks! That’s just what I needed.

      I’d started trying to write my own, but it wasn’t working. I was close, but it wouldn’t work. Then I found your plugin. Very simple. Thanks. A relief!

      (And that’s what I really think!)

    31. Feb 17th, 2006

      Omar

      Great Work!!

      But what about adding new buttons?

      i wanna add a Tag buttons that inserts [tag]….[/tag] tags around the selected words

      can you help me with this?

    32. Feb 17th, 2006

      Assaf

      To add new buttons you first need to create a plugin for TinyMCE with the new buttons, and only then can you modify the WordPress plugin to include that plugin and enable its buttons.

      http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

      I wish I had a shorter/simpler solution.

    33. Feb 22nd, 2006

      Mark

      How do I add a button for the “more” feature? This is in the default WP 2.0 WYSIWYG, but that button disappears when I activate your plugin.

      Your plugin is GREAT, by the way!!! :)

    34. Feb 22nd, 2006

      John M.

      Well, I’m working on building a fresh site using 2.0.1. I love your plugin to increase the functionality of the included WYSIWYG Editor. However, I really need to get a spell check working in it, and iespell is fine for my purposes. And, it would seem it should be fairly easy. I downloaded the current version of TinyMCE…located the iespell plugin and FTP’ed that to the TinyMCE plugin directory. added calls for it, along with a button.

      Now, when I go to the Write page, even though the “Use Rich Editor” (or whatever it is) remains checked for my profile, it kicks me to the non-wysiwyg editor.

      I notice above, someone seemed to think on of the scripts should be updated, and I did that. I removed iespell, and plopped in “table” and then “fullscreen” (already activated in your plugin). This causes the exact same behavior…I revert to the non-wysiwyg write page.

      Any ideas?

    35. Feb 22nd, 2006

      Assaf

      I can’t use iespell, since I’m running Firefox. The only problem I could think of is using it with Firefox or Safari.

      If WYSIWYG editor + advanced editing plugin worked together before iespell, then it could be an iespell problem, and you might need to clear the cache.

      If WYSIWYG editor + advanced editing plugin didn’t work before iespell, then it needs to be fixed for 2.0.1. I have that on my todo list, but didn’t get time to try it yet.

    36. Feb 24th, 2006

      Saiajin

      Hi Assaf…Since the editor for WP in 2.01 is now fixed I would love to go back to this….just some words of encouragement….. 8 )

    37. Feb 24th, 2006

      team » Blog Archive » Ressources

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    38. Mar 8th, 2006

      Josip

      Great plugin. Is there a chance you can get the plugin to show the WYSIWYG editor in the comments form? That would be great if you could do that.

    39. Mar 8th, 2006

      Assaf

      The only one I know of is EditorMonkey, which adds a WYSIWYG editor for older versions of WordPress, and can also be used with comments:

      http://www.rajprasad.net/plugins/editormonkey

    40. Mar 13th, 2006

      Barun

      Is this plugin supposed to work for the latest version of Wordpress (2.02)? I noticed you said in an earlier comment that you were hoping to get it fixed to not break with 2.01, but I wasn’t sure if you had done that yet or not.

      Essentially, what is happening to me right now is the following:
      If I do not install either the table or fullscreen plugins, everything works as it should.

      As soon as I install either of those plugins into the tinymce/plugins/ directory, though, the whole thing breaks and my visually rich editor completely disappears. If I comment out the “array_push($plugins, “table”, “fullscreen”);” line, the visually rich editor with the extra buttons reappears.

      This is a problem because I am hoping to use this plugin for a client’s website, and they really need the table functionality.

      Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated! This is a great plugin otherwise, though. Thanks…

    41. Mar 13th, 2006

      Assaf

      I can’t get the table control to work. And it’s bugging me, because I also want to have working tables.

      The problem is that TinyMCE on WP doesn’t support the table control, I don’t know why. The plugin doesn’t do much, it just asks TinyMCE to enable the table control, and it can’t do much to correct the situation.

      If anyone knows more about TinyMCE, any help would be appreciated. Perhaps we can get this solved in the next WordPress release.

    42. Mar 13th, 2006

      Barun

      One thing that I just noticed which might be affecting this:

      I looked at your table plugin file (http://blog.labnotes.org/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/table/editor_plugin.js) and then I looked at the one I just downloaded from http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/download.php, and they are very different. Could it be that there is something they have changed in the TinyMCE code which is making it incompatible with wordpress? (I am assuming here that your own installation of the table plugin on this website is working okay).

    43. Mar 13th, 2006

      Assaf

      I’m still running WP 2.0 on Labnotes, so it’s an older version of the TinyMCE. And it doesn’t work. It doesn’t kill the WYSIWYG editor, but it does anything when I click on it.

    44. Mar 13th, 2006

      Barun

      There is definitely something weird going on. Because I substituted the editor_plugin.js and editor_plugin_src.js files that I downloaded with the ones on your site, and all of a sudden my visually rich editor was no longer broken.

      But, tables still don’t work. Now, when I click on the table button, the popup window appears — but the Insert button on the popup window gives me an error in IE and does nothing in Firefox.

      My guess is that this is some sort of versioning issue.. Something in TinyMCE has changed between an older version and the current one, and we’ve got some files working under one version and other files working under another…

    45. Mar 14th, 2006

      Barun

      Okay, I’ve found a temporary fix for the problem that lets you put tables in.

      The problem is indeed a compatibility issue with the TinyMCE table plugin. If you use the version of the table plugin available at: http://mudbomb.com/wordpress-wysiwyg-tinymce-add-ons/ instead of the one from the TinyMCE website, everything works out okay.

      The only downside is that since this is an earlier release of the tables plugin, it doesn’t have all of the features of the newer release. But, unlike the newer release, at least it works !

    46. Mar 14th, 2006

      Assaf

      Barun,

      Thanks a lot for finding a solution.

    47. Mar 15th, 2006

      Neil

      I am also having problems adding fullscreen, and getting it to work. Everytime I drop in the plugin, the wysiwyg editor goes away. I really like the fullscreen, and would not mind table to work.

    48. Mar 19th, 2006

      eduo

      To all having issues with the rich editor disappearing:
      Yes, the version of TinyMCE changed. I’ve been checking the versions and it’s possible to download the latest one that works with this plug-in (which in reality just extends the stock WP-included TinyMCE, itself a very good thing) from the “older versions” page of the TinyMCE SF site included as part of the 2.02 files:
      http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103281&package_id=111430

      The page for direct download is: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tinymce/tinymce_1_45.tgz?download

      Using the “table” and “fullscreen” from this file is all that’s needed. Other plug-ins from this same package should work as well.

    49. Mar 21st, 2006

      John Wilson

      I have just installed this, along with the version of the tables plugin from mudbomb (see above). I had no bad effects from the installation.

      In fact, other than the plugin activation, I can see no effects from the installation. The default WP TinyMCE editor is still working as it was when I installed 2.0.2.

      I am fully updated on WP, and running just a few plugins. What am I missing here?

    50. Mar 22nd, 2006

      John Wilson

      OK, I must have refreshed a cache because now I have had to disable advanced wysiwyg because it was messing up the default WP TinyMCE editor. I couldn’t get any more extensive TinyMCE or FCKeditor to appear, I worked with all the options but I did not (and cannot) get a hack to appear.

      All I want is some table buttons . . . sigh. But I don’t want to learn to program this stuff.

    51. Apr 1st, 2006

      Gerry

      > I created a simple plugin that automagically adds all these buttons. Download advacned-wysiwyg.php into your wp-content/plugins directory and activate. Enjoy!

      The plugin isn’t coming up in my plugins activation page. Any thoughts?

    52. Apr 1st, 2006

      Assaf

      File permissions. Maybe your Web server can’t access the file?

    53. Apr 2nd, 2006

      d2h.net: flotsam, jetsam & lagan » reenabling tinymce buttons in wordpress

      [...] a bit of googling aroundresearch led me to assaf arkin’s avanced-wysiwyg plugin which did the job just fine (advanced-wysiwyg.php the download link on labnotes.org site seems to be broken). [...]

    54. Apr 2nd, 2006

      Hunox

      Something wrong with the server – can’t download the file + the filename is spelled wrong :)

    55. Apr 2nd, 2006

      Assaf

      It’s broken right now, I think a result of software upgrade.

    56. Apr 3rd, 2006

      Gerry

      Assaf – the file has the same permissions as the other plugins – 664.

    57. Apr 3rd, 2006

      Assaf

      Gerry, if you’re loaded it in the past three days, there’s a simpler explanation. The link downloads an error page, not the plugin. There’s a problem with the server, and I’m waiting for the ISP to help fix it.

      I’ll e-mail it to you.

    58. Apr 4th, 2006

      Assaf

      The download is working again. Sorry about the broken link, seems like an upgrade messed things up.

    59. Apr 13th, 2006

      Bradley

      Eduo: Thank you! It was the version problem! Thank you so much for that Source Forge link for the older files, that did the trick. I really wanted the “Paste from Word” and “Paste as Plain Text” buttons working and now they’re working!

    60. Apr 23rd, 2006

      Cham

      Hi Assaf, thanks a lot for this plugin!

      I only have one problem, the table plugin just won’t show up. I must have tried everything I read here and there but every time I refresh my “Write” page the rich editing buttons are gone. Everything goes back to normal when I delete the ‘table’ folder in the ‘plugins’ directory. I downloaded the table plugin from the latest version of Tinymce and I beleive I made all the necessary changes in the appropriate files as follows:

      in tiny_mce_gzip.php, line 98:
      $plugins = apply_filters('mce_plugins', array('wordpress','autosave','wphelp','table'));

      in advacned-wysiwyg.php, line 22 (of course that was there already):
      array_push($plugins, "table", "fullscreen");

      and I added “table” to the buttons array. Still no table!

      What am I missing?

    61. Apr 23rd, 2006

      Assaf

      Apparently the TinyMCE table plugin you can download from their Web site doesn’t work with WordPress, it either does nothing or makes all buttons disappear.

      Eduo found a solution by downloading a different version of the table plugin, check out comment #48 above.

    62. May 11th, 2006

      Tim

      So, Bradley found a way to get the paste from Word working… still digging but not seeing the answer…

    63. May 11th, 2006

      Tim

      To Get Paste From Word, to work:

      a. install the plugin
      b. grab the tinymce download – comment48
      c. locate and upload the “paste” plugin into www/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins
      d. edit the advanced-wysiwyg.php excample:


      function extended_editor_mce_plugins($plugins) {
      array_push($plugins, "table", "paste", "fullscreen");
      return $plugins;
      }

      function extended_editor_mce_buttons($buttons) {
      return array(
      "formatselect", "bold", "italic", "underline", "strikethrough", "separator", "bullist", "numlist", "indent", "outdent", "separator", "justifyleft", "justifycenter", "justifyright", "justifyfull", "separator", "link", "unlink", "anchor", "image", "hr", "separator");
      }

      function extended_editor_mce_buttons_2($buttons) {
      // Add buttons on the second toolbar line
      return array("cut", "copy", "paste", "pasteword", "undo", "redo", "separator", "table", "sub", "sup", "forecolor", "backcolor", "charmap", "separator", "code", "fullscreen", "wordpress", "wphelp");
      }

      NOTE: the fullscreen did not function with this edit.

      Tim

    64. May 11th, 2006

      Tim

      It was a cache thing and the full screen does work :-)

    65. May 19th, 2006

      Ninjaboy

      This plugin was just what I was looking for – nice, clean and simple, great work Assaf!

      I am running WP 2.0.2 on Apache, and everything works perfectly, apart from this strange issue with full screen mode – I get this row of blank buttons across the bottom of my configured two row layout.

      I have done a fair bit of experimentation to try and get rid of this, but have not had any success yet.

      You can view what this looks like at http://www.photoshopninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/ps_fullscreen.jpg – any suggestions?

    66. May 19th, 2006

      Assaf

      I just switched to WP 2.0.2 a week ago, and I’m getting the same row of blank buttons if I do full screen. I’m guessing another mismatch between the TinyMCE that comes with WP and the plugins you can download from the TinyMCE Web site.

    67. May 19th, 2006

      Stefan

      Nice Plugin, but as soon as I try to move Buttons to the second Row, my Page turns as white as a sheet.
      [code]unction extended_editor_mce_buttons($buttons) {
      return array(
      "formatselect", "bold", "italic", "underline", "strikethrough", "separator", "bullist", "numlist", "indent", "outdent", "separator", "justifyleft", "justifycenter", "justifyright", "justifyfull", "separator", "link", "unlink", "anchor", "image", "hr", "separator");
      }

      function extended_editor_mce_buttons_2($buttons) {
      // Add buttons on the second toolbar line
      return array("cut", "copy", "paste", "pasteword", "undo", "redo", "separator", "table", "sub", "sup", "forecolor", "backcolor", "charmap", "separator", "code", "fullscreen", "wordpress", "wphelp");
      }[/code]

      Any Suggestions?

    68. May 19th, 2006

      Ninjaboy

      WP2.02 is the lowest I’ve installed the plugin on, so I can’t speak about lower versions with the http://www.photoshopninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/ps_fullscreen.jpg full screen button issue. If you work this out Assaf I’m sure a-lot of people would appreciate it, and you are obviously experiencing it yoursef.

      There is a-lot of good information amongst the comments Assaf, but it takes some reading through. Between here and the http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/punbb/index.php website I was able to get everything working pretty quickly… with a bit of trial and error! It would be really good to collect together the most relevant info into a faq if you have a bit of time, it might save a-lot of repeat comments!

      Once again, thanks for a nice simple plugin – now if you could make a admin panel rather than direct script modification, that really would be something! This really is an essential plug-in – even from base install this plug-in opens up so many more text formatting options than base install of WP2.02.

    69. May 19th, 2006

      Assaf

      @ninjaboy

      I think it’s a great idea to capture this discussion in a FAQ. Also, adding an sdministration panel and packaging the TinyMCE plugins will solve a lot of the problems. I can host it on this server, use the Trac for documentation, but I don’t have time to develop it myself.

      Is anyone interested in picking this up?

    70. May 20th, 2006

      Ninjaboy

      I would be happy to lend a hand with documentation, I’m not bad at that kinda stuff as I have quite a bit of college lecturing experience. However, I am not exactly a scripting wizard, so would not be much help for the actual coding part.

      Drop me an email if you want to discuss this further Assaf – it would be great if there are any other developers that would be able to lend a hand developing this plug-in further. A admin panel built-into WordPress to control icons and plugin activation would be ideal, but I understand this is gonna take some work!

    71. May 23rd, 2006

      ha huu binh

      ello! Your editor far outperforms the built-in WP2 editor, but is there a quick way to get the tag-button into your editor? We use it in every post on our site and it’s something we miss dearly. The HTML-editor seems a bit buggy too? I seldom get anything but a blank page to edit in pure html. Thanks for the great work so far though!

    72. May 24th, 2006

      Ninjaboy

      @ha huu binh
      Just a bit of advice regarding the code editor, I have seen this alot in Firefox where you just get a blank screen and no tagged text. It seems to work fine in Internet Explorer in base instalations of WordPress even without this plugin, so I doubt its being caused by this.

    73. Jun 5th, 2006

      fatihturan

      This plug in is great! But dont working with wp 2.0.3. Umm.. its bad. :(

    74. Jun 14th, 2006

      mvh

      Hi, I can confirm: latest 2.0.3 doesn’t work. I didn’t find a two minute workaround, what could be broken? I tried ‘downgrading’ the tinymce to a version used on older wordpress but that didn’t do the trick so I downgraded the whole thing :)

    75. Jun 21st, 2006

      Ninjaboy

      BUMP:: Any news on WP2.0.3 compatibility, I love this advanced editor, but will soon have to upgrade a site that uses it and would dealy love to keep it functioning as is… anyone else worked this out yet??

    76. Jun 22nd, 2006

      Cornelia

      Hello Assaf!

      First of all, thank you very much for that nice plugin. Unfortunately I could not use it, as I have Wordpress 2.0.3 on my server installed and it seems not to work with your Plugin. I would really appreciate, if you can drop me a mail in case that you will find a workaround for your plugin. I will keep on reading the comments on your webpage, hoping that you or somebody else will find a solution for that problem.

      Kind regards,

      Cornelia

    77. Jun 24th, 2006

      Jeremy

      Thank you for such a great plug in. I really have to have table functionality. I finally got it to work. By downloading the older version of tinymce as stated in post 48.
      However, I am having one crazy problem. When I click on the insert table button it loads the popup. But I can only see half of the commands. The pop up window is too small. Does anyone know how to resize the instert table popup?
      Thank you very much.

    78. Jun 24th, 2006

      Assaf

      I just talked to Matt last night. When they release a new version of WordPress, they also include a new version of TinyMCE. New versions of TinyMCE don’t always work well with older versions of their plugins.

      Nothing to worry about if you’re using the Advanced Editing plugin but haven’t installed TinyMCE plugins.

      If you are using TinyMCE plugins (table, full screen, spell check, etc), make sure to upgrade these plugins when upgrading WordPress.

    79. Jun 25th, 2006

      Jeremy

      OK another question. Still need to know the answer to question in number 78 if anyone knows.
      Now I instert a table. When I copy the text into the table it changes the font and font size. Where do I change the fonts inside the table at?
      Thanks

    80. Jul 5th, 2006

      Ninjaboy

      Thanks Assaf on the WP2.0.3 update – when I get a minute ill get around to updating those plugins and reinstalling this on a site Im working on, I’ll let you know if I come across any trouble!

    81. Jul 12th, 2006

      Rashad

      Great plugin. it save me from lots of trouble. Thanks

    82. Jul 17th, 2006

      Ninjaboy

      Yup – confirmed. This plugin works just fine with WP2.0.3 – I must have had the latest tinyMCE plugins already, as I dropped the ones I was using already in and it works perfectly! Indeed, it seems you have to have the ‘latest’ TinyMCE plgins for this to function, but no problems over here (on 3 different sites!)

    83. Jul 17th, 2006

      Assaf

      Ninjaboy,

      Thanks for telling us!

    84. Jul 31st, 2006

      tricky

      With WP 2.0.3 i still cant get the tables plugin to work. I tried with both http://mudbomb.com/wordpress-wysiwyg-tinymce-add-ons/ and the one from the latest tinyMCE package…
      whenever i have any of those on my plugins folder, the rich editor fails to load.

      Ninjaboy, which version of the tables plugin are you using?

    85. Aug 4th, 2006

      Peter

      I am using WP 2.0.4 and the WYSIWYG editor disappears when enabling this plugin. Anyonw know how to make it work? I have tried adding the table plugin for tinyMCE, but that also makes WP kick back into old-school editing mode.

    86. Aug 6th, 2006

      Ninjaboy

      @Peter – check you have the latest MCE plugins mate, this seems to cause alot of issues.

      @Tricky – I’m not using tables, sorry!

    87. Aug 14th, 2006

      tricky

      anyone using tables sucefulyl with 2.0.3 or 2.0.4?

    88. Aug 15th, 2006

      Paul Fynch

      Hey all, (this comment relates specifically to /table/ implementation)
      I read the whole post, thank you everyone for your input. I can only assume the WP code team scaled down tinyMCE to keep WP small, which I agree with (tinyMCE is well over 3-4Mb in almost any flavor). The plugin compatibility issue is one that is vexxing me, however. I haven’t had time to totally dig into the code yet, but, after testing all releases after 2.0.x of tinyMCE (by downloading each and testing the /table/ folder) I will attest that no version newer than 2.0.2 will work. I also downloaded 1.45 (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tinymce/tinymce_1_45.tgz?download thx eduo) and it *does* work in WP 2.0.4 with this plugin (thx assaf), although the popups are the wrong size in FF1.5.0.6, not tested in IE)
      TinyMCE 2.0.2 fails, but the table buttons show up, leaving the hope of *hacking* it to work at some point. I see modifications due either way. I just wanted to post my progress for you folks @(tricky)

      Cheers!
      pf

    89. Aug 15th, 2006

      Assaf

      Paul,

      Thanks for the info.

    90. Aug 22nd, 2006

      ovanez

      Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by
      :(
      Any Ideas?

    91. Aug 29th, 2006

      tricky

      Paul, thanks for the update!

    92. Aug 30th, 2006

      tricky

      Paul, using the table plugin from that specific release made it work under wp 2.0.4 with this plugin :)
      thanks!

    93. Aug 31st, 2006

      John

      I got this working a treat with wp2.0.4, although I have one minor issue, the fore/back color pops up the picker and when I select a color another window opens and gives me a selectcolor() error and the color isn’t changed. Any ideas?

    94. Sep 1st, 2006

      tricky

      installed the flash plugin for v1.45 and worked fine :)
      wish it supported latest tinymce version plugins anyway :(

    95. Sep 1st, 2006

      tricky

      btw, for the flash plugin to work i had to add some code on tinymce.js, about extended allows…

    96. Sep 6th, 2006

      AI3 – Adaptive Information:::

      Extending TinyMCE, the WordPress Rich Text Editor…

      Author’s Note: There is a zipped plugin, code and documentation that supports the information in this post, which will allow you to extend the functionality of your TinyMCE rich text editor in WordPress; for immediate instructions see the end of the …

    97. Sep 12th, 2006

      Joost de Valk – Weblog – Blog Archive » New design!

      [...] Edit: i just added the advanced editing plugin and i love it :) [...]

    98. Sep 13th, 2006

      Независимость – самый ценный капитал » Blog Archive » Настройка редактора Tiny MCE

      [...] http://blog.labnotes.org/2005/12/26/advanced-editing-for-wordpress-20/ [...]

    99. Sep 13th, 2006

      Vladislav

      Plugin works, bet only with IE… and dont work with Firefox 1.5 and Opera 9.01

    100. Sep 13th, 2006

      Vladislav

      I’am sorry your plugin dont work with Opera 9.01 on Linux, bet on Windows all is OK.

    101. Sep 13th, 2006

      Assaf

      According to the TinyMCE Web site, Opera 9 is only partially supported, although I can’t see a difference between Windows and Linux. I thought they would both work the same way.

    102. Sep 13th, 2006

      Vladislav

      I found worked plugins for tinymce, that is intagrated in WordPress 2.0.4 (it is tyme mce 2.0RC4 version)
      And there can download it
      http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tinymce/

    103. Sep 15th, 2006

      Vladislav

      I found this link…
      Extending TinyMCE, the WordPress Rich Text Editor

      Author’s Note: There is a zipped plugin, code and documentation that supports the information in this post, which will allow you to extend the functionality of your TinyMCE rich text editor in WordPress; for immediate instructions see the end of the post below.
      Click here to download the zipped file (101 KB)

      My most recent post was about the smooth upgrade to WordPress v. 2.0.4 for my blog software and noted my popular Comprehensive Guide to a Professional Blog Site recounting my own experiences setting up, configuring and maintaining my own blog site. A key aspect of that earlier Guide dealt with (what I perceived to be) an oversight in older versions of WordPress that lacked a bundled WYSIWYG editor. For my own site and installation, I had chosen the Xinha editor, and had devoted a number of entries in the Guide to its configuration and use.

      http://www.mkbergman.com/?p=275

    104. Sep 16th, 2006

      Imran hashmi

      Hi

      It worked perfectly for me :)

      Thanks

    105. Sep 18th, 2006

      Mr Papa

      nice plugin… gonna make it really easy on my not so computer literate wife to add posts to our family blog…

      thanks…

      Mr Papa

    106. Sep 30th, 2006

      S.-W. Cheng’s Computer Blog » Blog Archive » wordpress plugin – advance wysiwyg

      [...] 至此下載 [...]

    107. Oct 4th, 2006

      Ana Luiza

      Assaf, thanks for this plugin.
      I need tables in my posts/pages and ended up finding this page. You said
      “For WordPress 2.0.4 users, try the TinyMCE 2.0 RC4 plugins.” Is this the one you’re referring to:
      http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tinymce/tinymce_2_0RC4.tgz

      or are there more?
      to install it, do I just add it to the plugins directory in Tiny MCE?

      And, when I originally installed your Advanced plugin, the bar on the editor was too wide. You mentioned it’s possible to make more than one row of buttons. How is that done?
      Thanks
      Ana Luiza

    108. Oct 4th, 2006

      Assaf

      Ana,

      That’s the plugin and you just unzip it into the TinyMCE plugins directory and reload the page.

      To remove buttons, or make more than one row, you need to edit the advanced-wysiwyg.php file itself.

      You’ll notice it contains three arrays, one for each row, and each array lists all the buttons in that row. (The last two are empty)

      By editing the file you can remove buttons from the first row, and if you need them, add them to the second one.

    109. Oct 5th, 2006

      Ana Luiza

      Assaf,

      Thanks! After some missteps (I’m not a programmer) I got it right and thankfully someone posted the changes that needed to be made in the php file. It’s working now and it’s awesome to have paste from Word and table editor.
      Just one more thing: is there a way to enlarge the writing area?
      Thanks, Ana

    110. Oct 5th, 2006

      Assaf

      Ana,

      At the bottom right corner of the text area, there are three diagonal lines. Click and drag with the mouse and you can extend the text area in length.

      There’s also a Full Screen button in the toolbar that pops up a new window with just the text editor, great for long posts.

    111. Oct 9th, 2006

      paige

      i can’t figure out how to add a new row of buttons, is there a place with easy instructions? scanned the comments and don’t see anything that actually explains it. thank you-

    112. Oct 10th, 2006

      Ana Luiza

      Assaf, thanks again

      Paige, go to Tim’s post on May 11th. He gives the exact “code” that you have to paste on the advanced_wysiwyg.php file (this file is the plugin itself after you download it and unzip).

      You open this file on Windows’ notepad and paste that code on … (I don’t remember the exact area of the original document I replaced, but it isn’t that hard to see, someone may be able to help you)

      Then you save the file as .php – it has to keep the same name, and load it to the WP plugin directory

      I’m totally non-technical so I know other people can do it too…. :o)

    113. Oct 11th, 2006

      MILE

      Same question as paige, I suppose: Assaf says “If you find that the toolbar is too wide, you can move the buttons to a second and even third toolbar”…

      But how do i actually do that…?!? So far I haven’t figured out a way to rearrange the buttons…

    114. Oct 11th, 2006

      Daniel

      Same as Paige and MILE. I know zero of PHP, so if there’s a really easy way to do this, or a detailed explanation of what I need to change where, it would be appreciated.

    115. Oct 12th, 2006

      nada nunca es nada

      añadir botones, funciones y plugins al editor visual TinyMCE que viene por defecto con WP 2.0.4…

      tal y como os comentaba anoche me estaba tentando actualizar el editor WYSIWYG TinyMCE que viene instalado por defecto en wordpress 2.0.4 a raíz de los problemillas que me había estado dando para insertar videos de youtube en los posts….
      para c…

    116. Oct 12th, 2006

      PLANET3RRY » I love it when a code comes together

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    117. Oct 16th, 2006

      marion

      I didn’t notice where anyone else had issues with the foreground color picker, but the issues I had was that it would open a new window and the address was javascript:selectColor()

      Of course this through a “404 Page not found” error. I fixed it by editing line 89 in:

      From:
      + ‘

      To:

      + ‘

      Everything went smoothly after that.

    118. Oct 19th, 2006

      MILE

      I guess Assaf went on vacation…?! :(

    119. Oct 20th, 2006

      Carsten

      Your plugin should be good from what I read. Somehow I have completely messed up TinyMCE it seems. My editor (with or without your plugin enabled) looks like this:
      http://www.notsorelevant.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/editor.jpg

      Is it possible to get a working TinyMCE again?

      Thanks in advance. Carsten

    120. Oct 20th, 2006

      Carsten

      I’ve got it working again. Just installed TinyMCE from the original Wordpress download again. Should have thought about it before. Sorry!
      Your plugin works great now. :)

      Carsten

    121. Oct 24th, 2006

      Assaf

      It seems all the problems are with the plugins and TinyMCE versions. Even a minor version difference between the TinyMCE and the plugins could cause problems.

      If you don’t need the plugins (e.g. I don’t use the tables), best to just not install them.

      And heads up, looks like another version mismatch when WP 2.0.5 ships any day now.

    122. Oct 26th, 2006

      FS

      If not working for me. I activate and deactivate the plugin and doesn´t work. When is activated also i delete an entire row of buttons and nothing happend.
      I have 777 permissions on the file.

      Any one can help?

      Also my default rich bar extends over the Discusion and other seleccions on the right so some buttons does´t work.
      Thanks
      FS

    123. Oct 26th, 2006

      FS

      OK i´ve solved i download :
      http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tinymce/tinymce_1_45.tgz?download

      Then i´ve copy the original files and work. Without deleting the first copy.

      FS

    124. Oct 26th, 2006

      Ricardo

      hi! sorry for my english… Í’m portuguese…
      my problem:

      Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/eltonada/wp-content/plugins/advanced-wysiwyg.php:49) in /home/eltonada/wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php on line 272

      Can you help me please?

    125. Oct 30th, 2006

      Nico

      With version 2.0.5, try using the version of Tinymce included in Wordpress combined with the plugins from the latest Tinymce version. Seems to work for me!

      Great plugin, BTW. Thnx!

    126. Oct 30th, 2006

      Tom MacDonald

      Hi there,
      I can see the advanced options in IE6, but not in Firefox 2. I know it has to be a browser issue as I can see the buttons on FF 1.5 in work. Also, still can’t figure out how to split it onto separate lines, I had a go but it got messy!

      Many thanks

    127. Oct 30th, 2006

      Tom MacDonald

      In addition to my last comment, I got a new version and uploaded it, seems to work great! Many thanks to the author.

      What I’d love to do though is split the icons into 2 rows; with the divider between the horizontal rule and the cut icon being the start of the new row. Anyone got any pointers?

      Many thanks.

    128. Oct 31st, 2006

      harriscampbell

      I have a clean install of WP2.0.5. It uses TinyMCE2.0RC4 by default. You need to download THAT version of TinyMCE and if you only upload the additional plugins from that version, then install and activate the Advanced WYSIWYG plugin, it SHOULD work – BUT only in IE(I’m using IE6). It’s not working in FF1.5 (my preferred browser, but my customer uses IE, so not so bad, except it’s slower and the display is a bit buggy).

    129. Oct 31st, 2006

      harriscampbell

      UPDATE: The feature that I wanted, insert tables, only sort of works. It inserts a table OK, but I can’t access the advanced features in the second tab. It’s trying to find:

      javascript:mcTabs.displayTab(’advanced_tab’,'advanced_panel’);

      but it comes up with a page not found error. I’m hoping that it’s only a problem with me not copying things across properly… am looking over it further.

    130. Nov 7th, 2006

      Copernicus

      First of all, Assaf: you completely rock. Thanks so much for this plugin AND for helping all of us out as we try to get it to work on all these different versions of WP.

      Second, I’ve installed Advanced WYSIWYG on WP 2.0.5 and have run into a couple problems.

      1) The Font Size Selector has no affect on the selected text. (I select text, select a font size from the drop-down, then…. nothing happens.) I’ve checked the HTML version of the post & it does not show a change either.

      2) The installation of Advanced WYSIWYG includes a dropdown for styles, but I have not been able to find where to add/edit the styles in that dropdown menu. It only offers the styles of “mce_plugin_wordpress_more” and “mce_plugin_wordpress_page.” So, I guess I need to know BOTH: how do I get that drop-down to list additional styles AND to which CSS file do I add the new styles?

      Thanks again!

    131. Nov 13th, 2006

      Bloganbieter.de » Blog Archive » Wordpress Plugin: Advanced Editing

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    132. Nov 13th, 2006

      Joe Beaudoin

      Just installed this plugin. Does anyone know if the problems with Firefox have been fixed yet? If so, please feel free to share them. Thanks!

    133. Nov 19th, 2006

      Doug Quance

      # Assaf Says: October 24th, 2006 at 3:21 pm

      It seems all the problems are with the plugins and TinyMCE versions. Even a minor version difference between the TinyMCE and the plugins could cause problems.

      If you don’t need the plugins (e.g. I don’t use the tables), best to just not install them.

      And heads up, looks like another version mismatch when WP 2.0.5 ships any day now.

      You said a mouthful, Assaf!

      I was having problems with my site crashing, so I updated to the latest version – and now I’ve lost my cool image features (like how many pixels of space horizontally and vertically from the text) as well as I lost the table functions.

      I really love this plugin… I hope you will have a patch for it soon!

    134. Nov 20th, 2006

      Doug Quance

      Assaf,

      The problem I was having with tables and image handling seems to stem from FireFox 2.0.

      Those functions are working fine in IE.

      I’ll update if I figure out what the issue is with FireFox.

    135. Nov 21st, 2006

      Doug Quance

      Assaf,

      I don’t know why… but now everything seems to be back to normal. Firefox is handling the plugin well… and I have no idea why.

      Anyway, I’m glad it is… as I love this plugin – and I love Firefox.

      :)

      Thanks again for a great editing hack!

    136. Nov 30th, 2006

      chicman

      My FF1.5 can’t display the enhanced editor toolbar as I already update the TinyMCE to the 2.0.8, which IE works just fine.

      Any one any idea how to fix this issue?
      I am using FF 1.5 + WP 2.0.5.

    137. Nov 30th, 2006

      Thinkbasic

      Works fine here!!! Thnx for this one!

    138. Nov 30th, 2006

      Advanced editing for WordPress 2.0 at .: MP’s Blog :.

      [...] Damit die Posts etwas einfacher zu editieren sind: “Advanced editing for WordPress 2.0“ [...]

    139. Dec 1st, 2006

      Cómo ampliar las opciones del editor de WordPress en república de surlandia

      [...] Aunque para conseguirlo hay múltiples opciones, vamos a comentar alguna que resulte fácil de realizar. Esta en concreto se basa en un plugin de Assaf Arkin de Labnotes. Los pasos a realizar son los siguientes: [...]

    140. Dec 9th, 2006

      Raymond Barglow

      Thanks a lot Assaf for extending the functionality of tinyMCE!

      You say in your introduction above: “If you find that the toolbar is too wide, you can move the buttons to a second and even third toolbar (or add more buttons as you please).”

      Good advice! My guess is that just about all users of these expanded editing functions — at least those using WordPress — will find that the first-row toolbar is now so long that it pushes the message area of the window beneath the items at the right margin of the page, thereby concealing the scroll bar and making the editor almost unusable.

      I repaired this problem as follows: in the file advanced-wysiwyg.php, I moved these items:
      “separator”, “sub”, “sup”, “charmap”, “hr”, “advhr”
      from toolbar line 1 to toolbar line 2.

      This shortens the first toolbar line, and makes the 2nd one a little longer.

      I recommend that this change be incorporated into the standard format of the file: advanced-wysiwyg.php

      Again, thanks for your contribution to making editing SO much easier!

      Raymond Barglow
      Berkeley CA

    141. Dec 11th, 2006

      Assaf

      Raymond, that depends on the screen resolution, a widescreen display would work better with one long row of buttons.

      I wonder if there’s a way for the plugin to tell which resolution you are using, and then automatically switch between one and two rows.

    142. Dec 13th, 2006

      Winterhaven Online » Advanced editing for WordPress 2.0

      [...] This is a link to the Advanced Editor that needs to be installed. Just delete this post when you have it installed. [...]

    143. Dec 14th, 2006

      Easy Wordpress Forum

      Text Editor Plugin-in…

      Hi gobala,

      I am still searching for the plugin for text editing inside wordpress.(e.g to colour the text,change font,etc) The previous 2 plugin does not work at all.

      Thanks!

      You can try this, as fa……

    144. Dec 17th, 2006

      Plastictabs

      Has anyone gotten this to work with WP 2.0.5?

    145. Dec 30th, 2006

      Assaf

      So after a long long time playing around with it, I finally got it to work like charm with WP 2.0.5 and with both Firefox and IE. Here’s what I did:

      1. First, I installed the Assaf’s advanced-wysiwyg.php plugin and activated it.

      2. Replaced /wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_popup.js with the 2.0.8 version downloaded from:
      http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103281&package_id=111430

      3. Unfortunately, the TinyMCE plugins from ver 2.0.8 didn’t work with my WP 2.0.5 so while I kept the tiny_mce_popup.js from ver 2.0.8, I uploaded the following plugins from this TinyMCE ver and placed them in WP’s original TinyMCE js folder:
      http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tinymce/tinymce_2_0RC4.zip

      advhr
      emotions
      iespell
      preview
      table
      fullscreen

      4. Added a the additional plugins to the:

      function extended_editor_mce_plugins($plugins) {
      array_push($plugins, “table”, “fullscreen”, “emotions”, “advhr”, “iespell”, “preview”);
      return $plugins;
      }

      5. And finally tweaked the 3 lines until I got some really cool results:

      function extended_editor_mce_buttons($buttons) {
      return array(
      “formatselect”, “separator”, “fontselect”, “separator”, “fontsizeselect”, “separator”,
      “styleselect”, “separator”, “bold”, “italic”, “underline”, “strikethrough”,
      “removeformat”);
      }

      function extended_editor_mce_buttons_2($buttons) {
      return array(
      “sub”, “sup”, “forecolor”, “backcolor”, “charmap”, “separator”,
      “bullist”, “numlist”, “indent”, “outdent”, “separator”,
      “justifyleft”, “justifycenter”, “justifyright”, “justifyfull”, “separator”,
      “cut”, “copy”, “paste”, “undo”, “redo”, “separator”,
      “link”, “unlink”, “anchor”, “image”, “hr”, “separator”,
      “code”, “cleanup”, “wordpress”, “wphelp”);
      }

      function extended_editor_mce_buttons_3($buttons) {
      return array(
      “advhr”, “separator”, “emotions”, “separator”, “tablecontrols”, “table”, “separator”, “preview”, “separator”, “iespell”);
      }

      Thanks Assaf for the cool plugin!

      cheers,
      Another Assaf
      http://www.creativeintensive.org

    146. Dec 31st, 2006

      Assaf

      Assaf, thanks. Great tips!

      from the other Assaf :-)

    147. Jan 9th, 2007

      Wordpress Plugins For An Easier Blogging Experience » Blog-Op

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    148. Jan 11th, 2007

      Dave

      I uploaded the PHP file, Activated the plugin, but got nothing. I still had the same old general buttons. Did I need to do anything else? Did I need to upload something from “TinyMCE”.

      I’m really really new to WordPress so if there is something else I have to do be sure to explain it like I’m a 5 year old.

      Thanks,

    149. Jan 11th, 2007

      Ricardo Aldana

      Deixando uma pista em português para as pessoas que ficarm perdidas como eu…

      Das soluções que encontrei para adaptar o TinyMCE que vem com o Wordpress para uma versão extendida (com mais recursos) essa foi a melhor de todas!

      Aproveitem!

      To let some clues in portuguese to lost people like me.

      Here you find the best way to adapt the TinyMCE native version of Wordpress to a extend version of program.

      Enjoy!

      Tks folks!

    150. Jan 12th, 2007

      Dave

      My mistake. I guess you have to close your browser for the plug-in to take affect because when I logged back in today all the new buttons were there. Praise God! Way to go on the install. Even though I thought is didn’t actually work it turned out to be really simple.

      One more questions…
      Is there anyway to edit the options in the “Format” drop down?

      Thanks again, this solves lots of problems for me.

    151. Jan 12th, 2007

      Assaf

      @Dave,

      There is a way to add more formats, but you have to hack the WP post.php page to add it as part of the TinyMCE options. I’m afraid there’s no easier way around this.

    152. Jan 13th, 2007

      Pasting a Word Document into WordPress at bavatuesdays

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    153. Jan 21st, 2007

      Blogs for my site » Added editor functionality.

      [...] Found this at http://blog.labnotes.org/2005/12/26/advanced-editing-for-wordpress-20/ [...]

    154. Jan 23rd, 2007

      Alexander Trust

      Just wanted to mention that this plugin produces some problems with new “Ella”.

    155. Jan 24th, 2007

      Felix Guattari

      I’ve just upgraded to WP 2.1, and the editor is now totally corrupt. Only a few icons display (bold and italics and a few more)… I don’t have a clue about where to start troubleshooting. Could you please advise? Thank you.

    156. Jan 25th, 2007

      Doomsday

      Same here.. the upgrade broke this great pluggin :(
      any suggestion?

    157. Jan 25th, 2007

      Assaf

      I just upgraded to Ella.

      On my test machine I deactivated the plugin, reactivated it, and it worked but without tables/fullscreen. But on this server, it broke and I had to manually edit the file to disable tables/fullscreen.

      I don’t know how to enable the tables back, again it’s a matter of finding the right TinyMCE plugin to go along with WP 2.1.

      To disable tables and fullscreen edit the plugin to read:

      function extended_editor_mce_plugins($plugins) {
      //array_push($plugins, “table”, “fullscreen”);
      return $plugins;
      }

      The two slashes on the second line tell WP to ignore that line and use MCE without tables or fullscreen.

    158. Jan 27th, 2007

      A saco … » Blog Archive » Actualizar Advanced WYSIWYG editor para wordpress 2.1

      [...] http://blog.labnotes.org/2005/12/26/advanced-editing-for-wordpress-20/trackback/ [...]

    159. Jan 28th, 2007

      Felix Guattari

      Without any intervention on my part, all of a sudden the editor got back to life. I don’t believe in miracles, I think some weird cacheing issue must have affected the editor. As Assaf commented, I can’t make table and fullscreen work.

    160. Feb 4th, 2007

      Jessica

      Works for me in 2.1 but I’d like to add the spell check back that WP2.1 has. Also, it’d be nice to add a few more formatting things like ’smaller’ for my client. How does one see all the options available?

    161. Feb 7th, 2007

      Aaron

      alt-shift-v (Firefox) or alt-v (IE)

    162. Feb 13th, 2007

      Valeurs d’Usages rc » Blog Archive » Plugins WordPress utilisés ici

      [...] Advanced WYSIWYG Editor : permet d’avoir plus d’outils dans le barre de l’éditeur TinyMCE. [...]

    163. Feb 19th, 2007

      Oli

      If your plugin wont work anymore theres a simple solution!

      Deactivate the plugin. Click users > your profile > check the “Use the visual editor when writing” box. Reactivate the plugin. Enjoy!

      Congrats on an awesome plugin, I love it to bits!

      Oli
      Mullys.net

    164. Feb 24th, 2007

      Elias

      I love this plugin. Really good work.

    165. Feb 25th, 2007

      Buenos Dias Elias – Wordpress Plugins

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    166. Mar 2nd, 2007

      henrygale’s blog » Blog Archive » Actualizar Advanced WYSIWYG editor para wordpress 2.1

      [...] http://blog.labnotes.org/2005/12/26/advanced-editing-for-wordpress-20/trackback/ [...]

    167. Mar 2nd, 2007

      Steven

      Hello,

      I have followed the instruction based on the comment-117048:
      http://blog.labnotes.org/2005/12/26/advanced-editing-for-wordpress-20/#comment-117048
      to complete the following steps:
      1) Modify & Upload the advanced-wysiwyg.php
      2) Upload all the plugins files in wp-includes\js\tinymce\plugins

      But my editor still didn’t show the menu, still remain the same??

      I am using WP 2.0.4 and TinyMCE 2.0 RC4 plugins. Is there anything I have left undone, please help …

      Thank you.

    168. Mar 2nd, 2007

      JawsIk

      Thank you! This is very interesting and useful plug-in.

    169. Mar 31st, 2007

      Pica pica

      ビジュアルリッチエディタの変更…

      FreshReaderで気になるページを見つけました。
      Top 20 Wordpress Plugins for Power Users » MakeUseOf.com

      最近、こういうランキング系のエントリをいくつか見てたんですが、見慣れないものが1位に。
      1. …

    170. Apr 2nd, 2007

      Ryan Imel

      Great work. Thanks for the plug-in.

    171. Apr 9th, 2007

      Andrei Drynov

      Thanks

    172. Apr 14th, 2007

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    173. Apr 16th, 2007

      我相信 | I Believe Things for You – 欧拉公式

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    174. Apr 19th, 2007

      was tAXMAN meint…

      Advanced editing 4 WP vs. ScribeFire…

    175. Apr 20th, 2007

      台北地下酒吧站長-詹姆士的部落格 » WordPress 的所見及所得編輯

      [...] 最近將其他的我管理的網站更新到 WP 2.0 後發現他已經有WYSIWYG編輯器了,但是可以使用的按鈕不夠多,找了一下,原來要加上這個 advanced editing plugin因為他放了一堆的按鈕,你還可以自己去定義一下看哪些按鈕放在第二排。 [...]

    176. May 1st, 2007

      darkmotion

      I installed it but it wont turn up in the visual editor :(

    177. May 1st, 2007

      William Teach

      Great plugin. I was looking for something to replace another one I was using, that would allow me to switch between visual and code quickly.

      However (isn’t there always one? :)), it runs off the screen, and I cannot figure out how to get it to work. I see some folks have, but, don’t say how.

      I am using WP 2.1

    178. May 7th, 2007

      Martin

      hi,

      can’t get it to work. header already sent message. trying in WP 2.1.3

    179. May 7th, 2007

      Martin

      Hi,

      me again. Seems it works despite the error message. Just noticed that the character map is entering the special charachter and not the HTML code for the character into the HTML source.

      cu
      Martin

    180. May 9th, 2007

      James Farmer

      Great plugin, the users of http://edublogs.org (who I recently upset by removing a heap of their extra buttons) thank you muchly!

    181. May 15th, 2007

      David

      Hey Assaf,
      it´s a great plugin, but on some reason the save-function doesn´t work. When I use it and press save, publish or save and continue editing it asks me, if I really want to leave this site. When I say yes it reloads without saving. Any ideas about that?
      Don´t know what I missed..

      Best regards from Germany
      David

    182. May 17th, 2007

      Paddy

      Hello Assaf,

      I have the same problem than David. With WP 2.2 (fr)I can’t save my articles, it wipes them instead of saving them :(

      The save buttons seems to be badly recognised ?!?

      May be the new version of WP introduce the bug ?

      Any idea to turn around would be greatly appreciated.

      Regards

      Paddy

    183. May 17th, 2007

      Assaf

      David and Paddy,

      I upgraded to WP 2.2 yesterday, already published one post and drafted one, and I don’t have any problems with Save or Publish. I’m not sure it’s related, but two things I would try:

      1. Clean your browser’s cache, just in case new JavaScript libraries are mixing with old ones.
      2. Disable the plugin, edit a post, then enable the plugin again.

    184. May 19th, 2007

      Paddy

      Hassaf

      Thank you for your answer, unfortunately the ideas you gave us doesn’t work for me.

      I have disabled all plugins without any change…

      May be another user will have the same problem with more infos ?

      Hopping for a solution… :(

      Thank you for your help

    185. Jun 2nd, 2007

      Tim

      I have the exact same problem as Paddy.
      I tried clearing out the cache and everything.
      But doesn’t seem to work.
      So I tried to debug it myself and I saw that firefox is giving me 22 javascript error.
      Then I did a daring thing and upgraded the TinyMCE to 2.1.1 (the on that comes with wordpress I think is 2.0.9).
      When I turned the plugin off, it worked fine wit no javascript error.
      But when I turned the plugin back on, it was only giving me one javascript error.
      I thought it was a sign of hope. But couldn’t figure out where to go from there.
      The error was “tinyMCE.switchClassSticky is not a function”
      It happened on the dynamically created javascript file by tiny_mce_gzip.php, line 1764.

      And this is the code

      1764lls[cellCount];if(cellCount==tableElement.rows[y].cells.length-1)append=true;else cell=tableElement.rows[y].cells[cellCount+1];var newTD=doc.createElement(”td”);newTD.innerHTML=” ”;if(tableBorder==0)newTD.style.cssText=visualAidStyle;if(append)cell.parentNode.appendChild(newTD);else cell.parentNode.insertBefore(newTD,cell);}break;case “mceTableDeleteCol”:var index=tdElement.cellIndex;var selElm=inst.contentWindow.document.body;var numCols=0;for(var y=0;ynumCols)numCols=tableElement.rows[y].cells.length;}if(numCols0)selElm=tableElement.rows[0].cells[index-1];if(tinyMCE.isGecko)inst.selectNode(selElm);break;}tinyMCE.triggerNodeChange();}return true;}return false;}function TinyMCE_table_handleNodeChange(editor_id,node,undo_index,undo_levels,visual_aid,any_selection){tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_table’,'mceButtonNormal’);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_row_props’,'mceButtonDisabled’,true);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_cell_props’,'mceButtonDisabled’,true);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_row_before’,'mceButtonDisabled’,true);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_row_after’,'mceButtonDisabled’,true);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_delete_row’,'mceButtonDisabled’,true);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_col_before’,'mceButtonDisabled’,true);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_col_after’,'mceButtonDisabled’,true);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_delete_col’,'mceButtonDisabled’,true);if(tinyMCE.getParentElement(node,”tr”))tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_row_props’,'mceButtonSelected’,false);if(tinyMCE.getParentElement(node,”td”)){tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_cell_props’,'mceButtonSelected’,false);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_row_before’,'mceButtonNormal’,false);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_row_after’,'mceButtonNormal’,false);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_delete_row’,'mceButtonNormal’,false);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_col_before’,'mceButtonNormal’,false);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_col_after’,'mceButtonNormal’,false);tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_delete_col’,'mceButtonNormal’,false);}if(tinyMCE.getParentElement(node,”table”))tinyMCE.switchClassSticky(editor_id+’_table’,'mceButtonSelected’);}// UK lang variables

      Hope this helps.

    186. Jun 3rd, 2007

      Jasja ter Horst

      Just activated the plugin and it works like a charm.. makes live just so much easier!

    187. Jun 4th, 2007

      duncan

      assaf, just wondering if there is a way to get back the button that splits comments and adds a link to the full post in the default version of wordpress.
      It seems to disappear when i activate the plugin. Your plugin is awesome but id still like to be able to use the split comment.

    188. Jun 5th, 2007

      Assaf

      duncan,

      you need to edit advacned-wysiwyg.php and add the button name to the extended_editor_mce_buttons function. I believe the button name is “wp_more”.

      (The full list, if you’re using WP 2.2, is in the file wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php, line 32)

    189. Jun 6th, 2007

      Advanced editing for WordPress : WORDPRESSLIVE.DE

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    190. Jun 7th, 2007

      Sonika’s blog » Визуальный редактор в Wordpress

      [...] Для того, чтобы плагины визуального редактора TinyMCE заработали, подключаем специальный плагин для тонкой настройки TinyMCE в WordPress [...]

    191. Jun 13th, 2007

      Brendon Kozlowski

      I made some modifications that seemed really, really helpful. I didn’t want to modify the look/feel of the original Wordpress toolbar (much) so I tried to mimic what was there originally. I also added the toggle ability back in (ALT+B or ALT+SHIFT+V, depending on your browser); but unlike in the default Wordpress installation, I have the toggle button viewable from the top-most toolbar, not the second. Hopefully this will be useful to someone. (This is for v2.2 of Wordpress which uses v2.1.0 of TinyMCE.)

      function extended_editor_mce_buttons($buttons) {
      return array(
      ‘bold’, ‘italic’, ‘underline’, ’strikethrough’, ’separator’,
      ‘bullist’, ‘numlist’, ‘indent’, ‘outdent’, ’separator’,
      ‘justifyleft’, ‘justifycenter’, ‘justifyright’, ‘justifyfull’, ’separator’,
      ‘link’, ‘unlink’, ‘image’, ‘wp_more’, ’separator’,
      ’spellchecker’, ’separator’,
      ‘wp_help’, ’separator’, ‘wp_adv’, ‘wp_adv_start’);
      }

      function extended_editor_mce_buttons_2($buttons) {
      // Add buttons on the second toolbar line
      return array(
      ‘formatselect’, ‘forecolor’, ’separator’,
      ‘paste’, ’separator’,
      ‘removeformat’, ‘cleanup’, ’separator’,
      ‘charmap’, ’separator’,
      ‘cut’, ‘copy’, ‘paste’, ‘undo’, ‘redo’, ’separator’);
      }

      function extended_editor_mce_buttons_3($buttons) {
      // Add buttons on the third toolbar line
      return array(’tablecontrols’, ‘wp_adv_end’);
      }

    192. Jun 13th, 2007

      Assaf

      Brendon,

      Looks good! Thanks for sharing.

    193. Jun 13th, 2007

      Brendon Kozlowski

      I made two small errors.

      1.) There’s no need for the last separator in the 2nd function (extended_editor_mce_buttons_2), but this is a stylistic issue.
      2.) I left out the fullscreen button when mimicking the original Wordpress toolbar. Oops! :)

      Note: I needed to be sure this worked in 800×600, the current code above (also missing the full screen) does not quite fit in that resolution, some more tweaks may be necessary if you too have this requirement.

      Assaf: Thanks for such a great little tool! I hate Wordpress, but it’s become such a big name, this made integration for certain projects for *me* in telling our *staff* what to do much easier.

    194. Jun 13th, 2007

      Pirate’s Cove » >>Americans Never Quit » WP Plugins: WYSIWYG, Emoticons, And Others

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    195. Jun 21st, 2007

      Palim Palim Berlin Plemplem » Thx an alle Mitwirkenden ;-)

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    196. Jun 28th, 2007

      Julian

      Hello Assaf,

      a great plugin, but whenever I activate it, my More Tag functionality disappears. Since I do need the More Tag also: Is there any way around this? I’ve had this problem with 2.x, 2.2, and also now with 2.2.1…

      Thank you,

      Julian

    197. Jun 28th, 2007

      Assaf

      Julian,

      I think this will do the trick:
      “you need to edit advacned-wysiwyg.php and add the button name to the extended_editor_mce_buttons function. I believe the button name is “wp_more”.”

    198. Jul 2nd, 2007

      Chris

      I have the same problem as marion (Oct 16, 2006 post) – when I use the color picker in IE, I get a 404 page showing javascript:selectColor();

      His solution was cut off in the post – can anyone tell me what he did to make it work?? Does anyone else have the same problem? I am using wordpress 2.0.5.

      Only have the problem in IE, firefox is fine.

    199. Jul 4th, 2007

      Chris

      OK – thanks in part to a response from marion, I took one more look at things and got the color picker working without the 404 javascript window.
      Here’s what it took for me:
      wordpress 2.0.5, tinymce version which came with it
      color_picker.htm from tinymce version 2.0.8
      The critical point is in the head of this file:

      Now it works beautifully in IE and firefox.
      I tried tinymce 2.0.8 (the whole folder) but it breaks the wysiwyg editor in wordpress. Just the one file was all I needed from it.

      Hope this helps someone.

    200. Aug 10th, 2007

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    201. Aug 11th, 2007

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    202. Nov 16th, 2007

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    203. Jan 6th, 2008

      Matt

      Is it true that in the latest wordpress version (2.3.2) these advanced formatting buttons can be triggered by a button on the far right in the edit menu?

    204. Jan 6th, 2008

      Assaf

      @Matt Yes, I think that’s a new feature since 2.3.

    205. Feb 11th, 2008

      Pasting a Word Document into WordPress — Plugin Test Blog

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    206. Apr 5th, 2008

      Wordrpess 2.1: Pregi E I Difetti Di Questa Nuova Versione | MondoBlog

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    207. Apr 26th, 2008

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    208. Jun 16th, 2008

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    209. Aug 7th, 2008

      Kyle

      Looks great! Can’t wait to try it out.

    210. Aug 22nd, 2008

      Stephan

      OK, I activated the plugin and nothing has chnaged in the editor, WTF? Is this working with Wordpress 2.6 at all?