WordPress 2.3 WYSIWYG

Writing by Kaching!! Ching!! on Monday, 8 of October , 2007 at 9:13 pm

This blog currently uses the latest WordPress 2.3 version, named “Dexter”. There are many cool stuffs added this time as well as some things being removed. I am using the WYSIWYG editor for all my posting. The new visual editor has some changes, both good and bad. I believe there used to be a video and flash icon on the editor where we can add videos and flash. Now these two icons are gone from the visual editor. However, they have included the button to toggle the Advanced Toolbar which is located at the end of the visual editor. I have made my own modifications and added emotions in as well to the visual editor. I’m still thinking of whether to add in creating tables capability to the visual editor. Perhaps when I need it, I’ll add it during that time.

If you wish to edit your visual editor, you may do so yourself. It is quite easy to mod it and remove unwanted stuffs from the visual editor.

Steps

1. Go to “../wp-includes/js/tinymce/”.
2. Located the file “tiny_mce_config.php”
3. At line 28, add in “emotions”

before : $plugins = array(’inlinepopups’, ‘autosave’, ’spellchecker’, ‘paste’, ‘wordpress’);
after : $plugins = array(’inlinepopups’, ‘autosave’, ’spellchecker’, ‘paste’, ‘wordpress’, ‘emotions’);

4. At line 32, search for ‘wp_help’, ’separator’. Added in ‘emotions’ with the quotes after ’separator’.
5. Save the file.
6. Now go to TinyMCE website and download the TinyMCE release.
7. Unzip the content and go to “../tinymce\jscripts\tiny_mce\plugins\emotions”.
8. Copy the whole “emotions” folder to “../wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins”.
9. Reload your visual editor and you should see the emotions appear on your visual editor.

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