Comments on: TinyMCE problems in Wordpress

By: Evil Chicken

Evil Chicken — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:09:13 +0000

Hey – I think I might have found part of an answer. I was having a problem with TinyMCE rewriting my entities while trying to post an html tutorial.

The answer was to use htmlentities on the content going into the text area. For instance, previously the code behind my editor form was this (btw I’m not trying to write full html here as I assume it’ll get stripped):

textarea $content /textarea

when I changed to:

textarea htmlentities($content) /textarea

everything worked fine!

btw – I use a floated p tag for my pullquotes – TinyMCE never seems to grumble about that…

hope some of this helps
J

By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:53:30 +0000

Hi Liz, thanks for your input. I’ll check it out. Currently, I’ve just disabled the visual editor which means WP leaves my code alone and gives me most of the features I need. Not perfect, but it works.

By: Liz Dones

Liz Dones — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:10:33 +0000

I have similars issues with tinyMCE, there is another option if you are not using FireFox. That would be Ektron Visual Formatter.

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frisk design » Blog Archive » Wordpress 2.5 Preview — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:00:15 +0000

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By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:53:21 +0000

Cool, thanks Steve for the heads up — definitely need to check that out. And the YUI editor itself looks quite nice, but as I already have other libraries being loaded on the blog for other functionality, I probably wouldn’t use it due to ‘library bloat’. Cheers.

By: Steve Winton

Steve Winton — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:57:48 +0000

I haven’t had a chance to try this out myself yet, but I just came across the following solution for the YUI editor in WordPress, I guess this would work for TinyMCE too… http://tinyurl.com/2zqdcw

It involves a change to wp-config.php, so no hacking of the WP core, which is always good! :)

By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:37:22 +0000

@Lakshmi: thanks for the information. I’m now looking at Scribefire which seems pretty good, although it doesn’t appear to work with editing pages on my blogs that use the NAVT plugin, because it seems to trash the page slug and offers no way of fixing that. I shall persevere.

I also checked out the FCK editor plugin for WP which also does weird things to previously saved HTML and is incredibly bloated and slow.

Me not liking this situation. :-(

By: Lakshmi Mareddy

Lakshmi Mareddy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:54:39 +0000

Have you considered using a offline editor such as Qumana, Bytescout Post2Blog or Scribefire add-on to Firefox? I know TinyMCE is supposed to behave, but this is a good workaround too.

By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:10:45 +0000

Thanks Sunaryo, I’ll have a look at that. Gaetan — I’ll keep my eyes peeled too. It’s one of the few things about Wordpress that I dislike…

By: Gaetan

Gaetan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:01:38 +0000

Ho yea, and you haven’t used it in Safari, it’s even worse! I didn’t get a chance to look at alternatives, I guess that there might be some wordpress plugin out there that can replace TinyMCE. I’ll keep an eye on the comments :)