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<\/a>Enable Hidden Buttons<\/h2>\n
The Visual Editor is sparse. Yeah, minimalism is good and all that, but sometimes I just want more buttons!<\/p>\n
There are a bunch of buttons included in TinyMCE that are disabled in WordPress. Luckily, it’s easy to enable them.<\/p>\n
For example, to add a horizontal rule button to the first row of the visual editor, add the following code to your functions.php<\/em> file:<\/p>\n {code=php}function add_more_buttons($buttons) { If you want to add the horizontal rule button to display in the second row, use this filter hook instead:<\/span><\/p>\n {code=php}add_filter(“mce_buttons_2”, “enable_more_buttons”);<\/p>\n You can add as many buttons as you like, just repeat the buttons you want to return, for example:<\/p>\n {code=php}$buttons[] = ‘cut’; Disabled buttons that you can enable include:<\/p>\n And this is what the visual editor looks like when all of the hidden buttons are enabled on a third row:<\/p>\n When you’re writing articles in the backend of WordPress, previewing posts can become tedious each time you want to see what your work looks like after adding an image or formatting text.<\/p>\n While the distraction free writing mode takes away the clutter of the visual editor, it doesn’t emulate what your post will look like on the front-end.<\/p>\n Fortunately, there are a couple of simple hacks you can make \u2013 changing the width of the editor and matching your theme style \u2013 to\u00a0style the visual editor to resemble your theme’s style.<\/p>\n Add the following code to your functions.php<\/em> file:<\/p>\n {code=php}add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘wptuts_theme_setup’ ); In this example, the full width is 1000px, but you can change this value to whatever suits your theme.<\/p>\n The path to the CSS files is relative to your theme’s root folder, so if your WordPress site is in the root of your domain, the path would like be something like:\u00a0wp-content\/themes\/your-theme\/css\/your-css-file.css<\/p>\n Some themes, like Twenty Fourteen and Twenty Thirteen, already use\u00a0add_editor_style<\/em> to style the visual editor to emulate the front-end, so check your theme doesn’t already have this feature turned on before trying it out.<\/p>\n While there text replicates what’s shown on the front-end, the headline remains the same:<\/p>\n Nevertheless, this method is a great way to see what your post will look like once published.<\/p>\n Thanks to the clever folks at WPTuts+<\/a> for this awesome snippet.<\/p>\n If you would rather not mess around with your theme files, there are a few great plugins that add advanced TinyMCE functionality to the visual editor.<\/p>\n
\n$buttons[] = ‘charmap’;
\nreturn $buttons;
\n}
\nadd_filter(“mce_buttons”, “add_more_buttons\u201d);<\/p>\n
\n$buttons[] = ‘copy’;
\n$buttons[] = ‘paste’;<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>Front-End Editing… Almost<\/h2>\n
\nfunction wptuts_theme_setup() {
\nset_user_setting( ‘dfw_width’, 1000 );
\nadd_editor_style( array( ‘css\/style1.css’, ‘css\/style2.css’ ) );
\n}<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>Advanced Editing With a Plugin<\/h2>\n
TinyMCE Advanced<\/a><\/h3>\n