WordPress WYSIWYG Editor Plugin

Filed in: WordPress — January 3rd, 2005

For your information, WordPress script’s editor is plain text with only a few tag buttons(screenshot). The blog entry is written in plain HTML code. It is a bit difficult to use for non hml knowledge users.

Moises Kirsch created a editor plugin to plug htmlArea into Wordpress editor. htmlArea is a web based WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Get) editor. It makes writing in blog entries like writing your document s in word processor. It also comes with few plugin. One of them is image browser which browses your wordpress image folder and insert image into post. It’s so easy!

However, please note that the plugin still in early version. The default htmlArea settings does not works well, buggy… I changed it to use HTMLArea.replaceAll();, instead of default HTMLArea.replace(‘content’, config);.

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But, Mozilla browser disallow you to paste text into Rich Text Editor(e.g htmlArea) for security reason. Firefox prompts me a solution at Mozilla site, but it does not work.

At the end, I still use back the wordpress plain and simple default editor.

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I was looking for a WYSIWYG plug-in for Wordpress 2.2, because the one I used (called "advanced") did not allow formatting of text by left/center/right, and most of the buttons were not visible. I had to write HTML myself! all those H tags, B, BR etc... that was awful. Now I'm glad to have found a solution here.

Seb

I've found that using SHIFT+INSERT works just fine in Firefox (instead of ctrl+v pasting).

gary

Firefox wouldn't allow you to cut-paste to wygiwys editors, but you can drag-drop.

LcF

@Sunny: Ah. I almost forgot about WYSIWYG editor for wordpress after I blog using w.bloggar. Thank you for remind me. :P

Anyway, I just searched thru the Internet again for wordpress wysiwyg editor and found a few as follows.

WYSIWYG II (WP WIKI) -- should be the upgrade version that I previously mentioned in the entry.

WYSI-Wordpress -- based on TinyMCE. May not work for Mozilla Firefox.

I haven't test all of them, yet. I will write a review after tested them all. :)