When I first started building sites in WordPress, I quickly ran into some limitations with the options available in the standard editor toolbar. As well, I was stumped as to why when pressing enter or shift+enter, the <p> or <br /> tags were being stripped out by WordPress. After some searching in the forums, I found the solution. Install TinyMCE Advanced.
I soon discovered that TinyMCE Advanced does much much more!
This plugin adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, WordPress’ wysiwyg editor: Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Full Screen, IESpell, Layer, Media, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras. Together these plugins can add over 40 new buttons to the toolbar, which is now two rows plus one hidden row. Some of the new features added by this plugin are:
- Font size and font family selection.
- Support for making and editing tables.
- Advanced list and image dialogs that offer a lot of options.
- Search and Replace.
- Support for XHTML specific tags and for (div based) layers.
- Support for adding and editing inline css styles to any element.
~ From LaptopTips.Ca
TinyMCE Advanced is written by By Andrew Ozz at LaptopTips.Ca and is available for download through your Dashboard /Download / Plugins / Add New.
Once its installed, you can find it’s settings in Dashboard /Settings / TinyMCE Advanced.
Just drag and drop the options you want onto the editor tool bar and select any advanced options you might want to use. Click ‘Save Changes’ and the next time you edit a post, you will have those new options available any time you need them.
TinyMCE Advanced is an excellent piece of code that I consider an essential plugin.
You can read more about TinyMCE Advanced here.
Photo Credits
WordPress Logo On Thumbnail – GNU General Public License
Plug – Image from the Microsoft Clip Art Collection