TinyMCE Advanced
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:
- Imports all CSS classes from the main theme’s stylesheet and add them to a drop-down list.
- Font size and font family selection.
- Support for making and editing tables.
- Advanced link and image dialogs that offer a lot of options.
- Search and Replace while editing.
- Support for XHTML specific tags and for (div based) layers.
- Support for adding inline css styles to any element.
Version 3.2: Compatibility with WordPress 2.7 and TinyMCE 3.2, minor bug fixes.
Version 3.1: Compatibility with WordPress 2.6 and TinyMCE 3.1, keeps empty paragrarhs when disabling the removal of P and BR tags, the buttons for MCImageManager and MCFileManager can be arranged (if installed).
Version 3.0.1: Added option to disable the removal of P and BR tags when saving and in the HTML editor (autop), fixed the removal of non-default TinyMCE buttons.
Version 3.0: Compatibility with WordPress 2.5 and TinyMCE 3.0.
Version 2.2: Deactivate/Uninstall options, font size drop-down menu, other small improvements.
Version 2.1: Improved language selection, improved compatibility with WordPress 2.3 and TinyMCE 2.1.1.1, option to override some of the imported css classes and other small improvements and bugfixes.
Translations
The plugin’s interface in only in English, but the TinyMCE plugins include several translations: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and Chinese. Additional translations can be downloaded from TinyMCE’s site. Each language file has to be added to the corresponding directory of each of the TinyMCE plugins in tinymce-advanced/mce. For example to add another language file for the “advlink” plugin, the file has to be in tinymce-advanced/mce/advlink/langs. For the “table” plugin, the file has to go to tinymce-advanced/mce/table/langs, etc.
Download
TinyMCE Advanced version 3.2.4 (requires WordPress 2.8)
Previous versions:
All previous versions are available here.
3.2 for WordPress 2.7,
3.1 for WordPress 2.6,
3.0.1 for WordPress 2.5.1,
3.0 for WordPress 2.5,
2.2 for WordPress 2.3.x and 2.2.x
Development version (all bug-fixes and new features would be there first)
TinyMCE Advanced extra languages (for version 2.x only)
Screenshots
Installation (for version 2.0 and newer)
- Download.
- Unzip.
- Upload the “tinymce-advanced” folder to the WordPress’ plugins directory at “wp-content/plugins”.
- Activate the plugin.
- Set your preferences at “Settings -> TinyMCE Advanced” or “Manage -> TinyMCE Advanced” for WordPress 2.6 and older.
- Try your new and improved wysiwyg editor (after clearing your browser’s cache).
Upgrading from version 2.0+
- Deactivate the old version.
- Delete the “tinymce-advanced” folder from WordPress’ plugins directory.
- Follow the above steps to install the new version.
Upgrading from version 1.0 or 1.0.1
This version of TinyMCE Advanced is self-contained. It does not require separate installation of TinyMCE plugins. If you have one of the previous versions (1.0 or 1.0.1) installed, please follow these steps:
- Deactivat the old TinyMCE Advanced.
- Backup the TinyMCE plugins folder, located at wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins.
- Delete the following TinyMCE plugins that were added when installing the previous version (delete the directories with these names from wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins):
• advhr
• contextmenu
• print
• visualchars
• advimage
• advlink
• table
• xhtmlxtras
• nonbreaking
• layer
• searchreplace
• fullscreen - After deleting the above plugins, you should have the 7 default plugins that came with WordPress: autosave, directionality, inlinepopups, paste, spellchecker, wordpress, wphelp. Or if you prefer, delete the whole tinymce plugins directory (wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins) and upload a fresh copy from the WordPress installation package.
- Delete the tinymce-advanced folder from WordPress plugins directory (wp-includes/plugins).
- Follow the installation instructions above to install the new version.