Supercharge The Rich Text Editor of Your Blog
So you want to supercharge the WYSIWYG rich text TinyMCE editor in wordpress? Well than, there is a great plugin that is just for you! With this nice plugin you can do all kinds of trick things to posts and page text with just the press of a button.
The rich text editor that comes default on a standard wordpress install is not really all that bad.
However, I would often find myself doing or adding things to the raw code or in html mode on the editor to get the desired results.. Doing things in the raw code is not a big deal if a person knows html and how to use it well. But we all like to progress and many times people would rather not have to mess around with the raw html code just to make nicely formated and feature rich posts. After all that is what a ‘WYSIWYG’ visual editor is for, right?
This plugin will add all kinds of extra buttons and functions to the default wordpress editor. It makes the Wordpress TinyMCE editor look similar to the image below.
Advanced Editor
Notice the Font size and Font family buttons? Those two alone make this plugin well worth installing. Plus all the other trick features it adds. Things like adding tables to posts, using inline css styles, a spell checker, find and replace words and more cool stuff too. Like adding captions to words in the text like this for example! Hover over the word and see a popup tool tip!
I highly recommend adding this plugin to your wordpress blog editor. The TinyMCE Advanced plugin is found at laptoptips.ca. The developer did a wonderful job making the plugin and also has a great website with other nice plugins to offer as well.
I have to say, the TinyMCE Advanced plugin adds some great functions to the default wordpress rich text editor and makes it more efficient and enjoyable to write posts.
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Warhammer Online : More server crashes reply on November 22nd, 2008 2:31 pm:
Great post thanks !!!
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warhammer reply on April 7th, 2009 5:37 am:
Nice plugin - I will definitely be using it in my Blog.
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all about loan reply on April 13th, 2009 1:21 pm:
you are correct, this plugin that I need, before this, i have trouble with the standard feature, i think with this plugin we can create for free, thank you
freeaffiliate reply on February 8th, 2009 4:54 am:
wow… that really i need
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pharmaceutical recruitment reply on April 7th, 2009 5:36 am:
Very handy plugin. It’s like having a full on word processor in the backend of your blog.
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Mark reply on May 11th, 2009 12:12 pm:
Well worth the time to download and try. This is what I have been waiting for.
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Thanks for the plug-in information and also the ways and reasons to use it. Great post and information.
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Oh, what a useful plugin… this will help me a lot for editting the codes. thanks a lot.
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Caroline's typing jobs from home reply on December 1st, 2008 2:18 am:
Your reply sounds really sarcastic!
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Cool plugin, absolutely neat and practical, and really user-friendly. thanks for sharing this effective plugin, it make blogging more enjoyable.
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Thanks for the heads up never knew that stuff any existed!
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Text editor, not that bad. Nice Plugin that will make the rich text editor most professional.
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I always seem to learn something new when I check out your blog. Thanks so much for all the info.
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Ryder reply on November 13th, 2008 8:38 am:
Hi KeeKee,
Thanks for the comment. I am glad you find my site somewhat helpful.
I clicked on your link here and looked at your blog. That is a nice (really cute) looking site and you write well too. Keep up the good work.
Nice to see you come by again. Stop by anytime and happy blogging.
Ryder
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Your blog is really cool and i really appreciate that you are always up to something transformational each time. Very interesting article and its really great to use rich text software,the software u recommended seems user-friendly and easy to use, thanks for sharing, i will surely dowbload ut.
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omg thank you for the info
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Absolutely amazing plugin, it has facilitated my editing job to a great extent. Thanks for this share. Great post !
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That plugin looks great, i think ill give this a try. Thanks for the info.
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Great post! Will definitely give it a try. Thanks for the info!
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Hmmm but how much server CPU resource does it use. And how long do you have to wait if your net connection is bad that day.
I know it’s all the latest thing to have server side software but until we have 99.999% uptime and repsonse times of UNDER 0.1 seconds, I prefer WYSIWYG and anything doing supercharged processing to do it on my machine - the one I don’t share with anyone and that doesn’t have a dodgy copper wire connecting my screen to it (well I hope not)
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great plug in, so far, let you know if i still think so in a month or so.
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Fantastic Plug in, looks awesome too, thanks for the post.
Hope to see more posts like these in future from you
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Thats a lovely plugin, I think im gonna get it stuffed in right now, I tried a few similar plug ins a while ago but wasnt too happy with them
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Another good plugin
help me for bloging
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Great plugins. Nice article
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Really useful plugin.. i have been looking for this since a long time.. thanks.
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Thank you for the article
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I have always had trouble with WP’s standard text editor not doing what I wanted it too. I never knew if that is how it is meant to behave or they are just bugs.
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Wow great plugin, i like it
thank you for sharing
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Wow, what a great TinyMCE plugin, i really like it
I’ve ever thought, that the standardeditor from wordpress has too less functions, so that’s a really good plugin. Thnx for sharing!
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An absolutely awesome plugin, and its really very small in size but does an amazing editing job. My blog is rocking since im using this plugin. Cheers
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nice info
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OK, gonna try it, hope it works as well as you imply.
Regards,
Cheryl Beckham
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Ryder reply on December 7th, 2008 10:00 pm:
Cheryl,
Have no fear, the advanced editor works great. I use it everyday and install it on all on all my client sites too.
It is a nice addition to a WP blog. Just takes about 10 minutes to set up, clear the browser cache and after that it works flawlessly.
Thanks for dropping by.
Ryder
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Wow what a great plug-in for wordpress. Looks great. I’ll give it a try.
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Great info. Thanks!
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Just another post that proves why I keep coming back and back! First comment of mine though. Great resource indeed, thanks for taking the time to share your resources with us Ryder
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Ryder reply on December 19th, 2008 2:48 pm:
Hi Kelly,
Thanks for the nice comment, glad to have you reading my site.
Have fun!
Ryder
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Thank you, just what i was looking for. Will have it installed on my blog, and it will make it easier for me to have the text looking like i want it to. Thank you and merry christmas
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I like this plugin
very help for me
thank you for share
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I never knew this WP plugin exists until I read your post. I should start using it. The default text editor lacks functionalities. Thank you for the awareness.
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry christmas to all of you.
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Woah, It’s like Microsoft word, in my Wordpress!
Thanks for this, probably wouldn’t have found it without this!
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I’m gearing towards using this in my own wordpress blog. But I need to study more to get its full use. Care for another useful plugins? I’m waiting.
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thank you for sharing this text editor to us… really appreciate it! I will gonna use this plugin.
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This really helped me. Thanks for the article!
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very helpful post. thanks a lot.
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Thanks for providing the solution ) Really Appreciate your efforts:)
Happy New Year to All:)
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Making blogging more like editing a Word doc step by step. Plugin installed!
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Thanks for this information. I would like to try this plugin.
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Wasn’t aware of this plug-in. Thanks for the article explaining it all. Cheers!
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Wasn’t aware of this plug in. Just answered my question. Thanks again.
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are you using wp?
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Thanks for great information
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very easy to install
thanks once again
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once i tried the TinyMCE plugin, it crash with WP2.6; now i upgrade to 2.7 there is still some barrier in implementing this plugin; i could benefit from the ease though.
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Ryder reply on January 13th, 2009 3:00 am:
Nugroho Adi Pratama,
Hi, I have used this on both 2.6 and 2.7 and it works nice for me.. Can you tell me more about the barrier you are having?
Did you install the plugin using any automatic installers? I have installed this plugin on about 15 sites now and I noticed that on some of those I had to install the plugin folder manually via FTP for it to work correctly.
Let me know more and I will try to help.. That is a nice blog you have by the way and thanks for coming by my blog.
Ryder
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Does anyone know if having this plugin installed slows down the site/wordpress performance? It looks really interesting, but I wouldn’t want to take a performance hit, even if its just when I edit the site.
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Plugins tend to slow down blog sites so I avoided these unless I really need a plugin. Though I would have loved having those many buttons when editing.
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A chto vy skazhete, esli ja skazhu, chto vse vashi posty vydumka?
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A chto vy skazhete, esli ja skazhu, chto vse vashi posty vydumka?
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Yeah plugins usually slow it down
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Now I got the thing and with the help of this I can make my blog more beautiful and attractive.
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Good job. Sometimes it can be hard to find a decent plug-in. I’ll have to give this one a try sometime. Thanks!
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My friend’s using a different WYSWYG editor on her wordpress blog. I don’t what it is her using but when I wrote some articles for her, the preview often change from what I see while I was editing it. I would recommend that she get this one.
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How couldn’t I find this plugin before? This is so nice! It’s gonna save a lot of time editing and formatting my texts.
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Fantastic Plug in, thanks for the post.
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Great post! I’ve bookmarked your blog. Hope we can swap links.
Why can’t I open your rss feed? No post is showing.
Best Regards!
Ginj
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Hot damn, that is a beautiful interface. And functional looking to boot. I’m gonna put this on my wordpress blog asap.
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Thanks you for sharing it with us your experience.
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That’s pretty cool, I was just looking around for a wysiwyg editor for a project the other day and totally for got about the TinyMCE editor. Thanks for reminding me about it.
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Its really very nice plugin.. Can save maximum amount of time that was wasted in typing and editing..
Thank you for the nice post…
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I was looking for a way to improve TinyMCE thanks
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Thanks for the information and it is really very useful.
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Nice plugin, thank you for your information
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That´s a great plugin!
It´s hard to find a WYSIWYG editor for wordpress.
Thank´s a lot!
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I think this a great way to make user friendly sites. Come to think of it, people will have ease in adding html codes. This is similar to friendster only it has more and better options. Thank you for this information. It sure can be very helpful in posting blogs and adding more style to it. Will get a chance to try it and see how easy it is to use…
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nice tips ..it will be of much help…
thnx
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thank you for the article
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Yes rich text editor will make posting much easier and fun
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This is great feature but I prefer the classic HTML editor.
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Really it is great posting and very useful posting, thanks for sharing it.
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It was the first plugin I had installed when I started blogging with Wordpress.
It’s the most essential thing.
Thanks for sharing, Ryder.
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This is a great plugin…thanks for sharing..
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Great thanks
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Yes I know this one. It is really great plug in. It makes things easier and fun
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great editor, thank you.
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Wow, This plugin is great. Thank you so much Ryder! Keep up the great work!
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Great post and information…
Must say nice n very useful plugin… this will help me a lot for editting the codes. Thanks a lottt.
Hope to see more posts like these in future from you
Thnx 4 sharing wid us
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It is a cool plugin, i tried using it on my wordpress blog. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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very nice plugin. thanks.
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that was a gud idea, poster will not lazy to put comments because of different fun stuff
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hoho, unbelievable.
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I know it’s all the latest thing to have server side software but until we have 99.999% uptime and repsonse times of UNDER 0.1 seconds, I prefer WYSIWYG and anything doing supercharged processing to do it on my machine - the one I don’t share with anyone and that doesn’t have a dodgy copper wire connecting my screen to it (well I hope not)
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Thanks for sharing this very useful plugin. I would guess that most people using Wordpress for their blogs are not the “hardcore nerdy programmer” type who know everything about HTML/CSS and love to bash WYSIWYG editors, so this will save a lot of time and make things much easier for the majority of Wordpress bloggers.
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That’s an awesome plugin, I have always wondered why wordpress does not provide more options for the users to easily edit their blog. Perhaps they want the plugins to take care of that?
Till then,
Jean
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Great info that can be absorbed without a degree in computer science!!
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Another plugin to have in my arsenal! Thank for sharing!
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Super stuff, some of these plug-ins are fabulous
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Hey, just thought you might wanna know that your blog looks a bit messed up with Opera.
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Ryder reply on March 5th, 2009 3:12 pm:
Oh Okay! Thanks for the heads up! I am a hard core FF fanatic so have not looked at the site on an Opera browser. I may have to install it and take a look.
How do you like Opera.. compared to FF anyway?
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Copy Plain Text - When you are trying to copy text to quote someone or provide … You could just Publish it to your blog from the editor as soon as you have … It’s so feature-rich that you would want to cry when you start using it.
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Thanks for the owner this blog and the artical is suitable for current event.
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Hi, thanks for the heads up on the plugin, I often find myself in the code and feeling frustrated by my lack of HTML knowledge. This should help things.
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WYSIWYG is great plugin. Just searching for this and found your blog. Your blog have nice information. Bookmarked you. Thanks.
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I too like the last poster came across your blog trying to find wordpress information. I am a fairly new blogger and have only messed with blogger so far but im looking for as much information on wordpress and I appreciate the information here. I will bookmark.
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It may just be one of the things i require for my site here Weight Loss
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nice blog. that an awesome plugins.Thanks
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I have been looking for an editor that allows me to insert and edit tables (html tab ). Can this editor do it?
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Hi
I’m new to blogging in wordpress - your blog item has been very useful to me - Would you mind checking out my blog and letting me have some useful feedback please
Blog at Print Buying Direct
Pete
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Ryder reply on March 12th, 2009 5:48 pm:
Hi,
Yea sure! I can give you a few good quick tips to start off with.
1) Get rid of the plain vanilla theme and use a nice custom template.. Either find a nice looking free template or have a coder make one that more matches you main root site, with same logo and color. There are millions of templates out in the wild, freely available. Just place ‘wordpress themes’ in google bar and press enter.
2) Put the main link back to the root page in the sidebar under pages, so it is there on every page. Also put a “Contact” link in the same area, linking to your main contact form, so it is always easy to see how to reach your company.
3) Add a little more text and or even and image or two to the About Us page.
4) Make sure you are using the All In One SEO plugin and learn how to use it well. This is a killer plugin and allows much control over unique page meta title, description and keywords.
5) I would probably use a shorter excerpt on the category pages.. this should just be short one or two paragraph, make searching for specific types of content a little easier when clicking on category links. It also shows more articles main tiles this way above the fold, and person can just scan quickly through them and click title they want to see more of. The excerpt length is often different on other themes from the one you are using. Another good reason to find or make a better theme! There are also nice excerpt plugins that can do all kinds of trick stuff with. Adjust the word length, add picture thumb etc.
Let me know how your progress goes, and thanks for stopping by.
Have a lot of fun!
Ryder
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Thanks for the great Post and Info! Useful!
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Hey Ryder
Your reply to Print Buying Direct was really great, I would love to get your suggestion for my blogs as well.
Would you like to tell me your email address so that I can send you details. I know you can help me out.
Regards …
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Ryder reply on March 14th, 2009 12:45 am:
Hi ????????,
I would be glad to help out and give a few pointers.
If you will, just use the form on my contact page and send a note first. Than after I receive that, I will replay back to you with the return email address and we can further converse.
Here is the contact page location!
I do not like to leave my direct email address in text out in that open net for the spam crawlers to read.
Ryder
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I too like the last poster came across your blog trying to find wordpress information. I am a fairly new blogger and have only messed with blogger so far but im looking for as much information on wordpress and I appreciate the information here. I will bookmark.
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This wonderful Plug-in is called TinyMCE Advanced. I have used it since it’s 2.1 version. You can also find the multiple language package of TinyMCE if you are not familiar with English.Plus, it’s all free
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TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate into other Content Management Systems.
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That is a great WYSIWYG I am going to add that to my new wordpress blog that is launching this weekend!
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it was really a nice tool, thanks for sharing
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wow..amazing..thats help greatly for me..anyway..how you can show emoticon on your posting menu like in the screenshot?
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I’m already familiar with the YUI JavaScript library, so when this new feature was included last week’s 2.3 release I decided to try out a progressive commenting enhancement. In this post I’ll walk you through how to implement YUI’s Rich Text Editor on your own blog with comment-specific features.
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I’m using it on one of my blogs right now, but the one thing about the plug-in is it has a tendency to screw up spacing…so that’s something to think about.
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Great post thanks !!
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Yes, I was Planning to do So,I got a good Information.Most of the reasons Gadgets also Have been Popular in Blogs.
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I just installed this plugin and it is wonderful to use man! Thanks for the post!:)
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Nice WYSIWYG plugin. For some reason when i use the visual editor it never saves the spaces and other things like it should.
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Learning simple html to edit posts is not a big deal. Sure Supercharge is a huge step-up in terms of intuitivity but it was never a problem for me to just use the provided editor and some html on top of that.
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What I hate on most blogging systems is the Rich Text Editor. But this pluging makes life easier. I will try it on my blog. Thanks for sharing with us.
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I can’t even explain how much I love learning about new plugins for wordpress. I kind of feel like a kid in a toy store. If I see something cool, I can just take it home and play with it! I think I’ll probably use this one, because while I don’t mind marking up my posts in HTML, sometimes I blog on a lap top and I really hate having to type code on a laptop.
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thanks for sharing this tool. Its made a big difference.
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Thanks for the tip, this tools will surely help me with my blog. I am just about to start my blog, glad I stumbled to read this article. Thanks a bunch!
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TinyMCE is one of the best rich text editors, I’m using it on my all blogs.
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This blog’s comments are now enhanced with the YUI Rich Text Editor.I’m already familiar with the YUI JavaScript library, so when this new feature was included last week’s 2.3 release I decided to try out a progressive commenting enhancement. In this post I’ll walk you through how to implement YUI’s Rich Text Editor on your own blog with comment-specific features.
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I want to post a new blog entry, but the rich text editor tool-bar that allows me to change font, font-size, font-color, justification, etc. is gone! How do I get it back?
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How can I be certain that this doesn’t install anything bad on my host? I mean, laptoptips.ca sounds like an affiliate marketer wanting to throw up adware. Be warned folks — have we confirmed this guy or not?
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Ryder reply on May 5th, 2009 6:17 am:
Ha ha… that site is called laptops because the site owner works on laptops.. And also builds plugins for wordpress and is on the development team for wordpress.. You could do more research before wondering such things! If you have your doubts than don’t use it, simple as that! I use it everyday and have not had one issue. That person on the site makes things work better not worst.
Do you even know what wordpress is? Do you even have a website?
Ryder
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Hi Ryder
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
This sounds like a good product, but I too would be interested to know what your response is to Super Charged’s concerns mentioned above. Is it safe for us to install this? Can you confirm there will be no adware?
Any comments you have on this would be greatly appreciated.
Rachel
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Ryder reply on May 5th, 2009 6:30 am:
Hello Rachel,
Yea, it works great for me.. There is no adware in the Editor wordpress plugin… It installs just as any other useful wordpress plugin would. It is an advanced editor and only used by the admin when making a post.. It does not install on a local computer.. Most adware is in the form of .exe or .dll file that runs in background on local unit.. What would the plugin maker gain by adwaring the admin of a wordpress blog? Nothing but some written words, maybe an image or two.. ha ha?
I think the maker of this fine plugin at laptopstips has 100’s of better things to do, especially since he is on the core WP development team. The product is totally safe for my use, as far as I am concerned.
Have fun!
Ryder
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Rachel, bespoke training courses provider reply on May 5th, 2009 1:57 pm:
Thanks Ryder
If you’re happy with the product, then that’s good enough for me. I just wanted to be sure. I’ve had some bad experiences online.
Sorry for appearing to be negative about what sounds like a very good product.
You have a great site here by the way.
All the best.
Rachel
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Nice plugin. I will download it. Thanks for information.
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From the screenshots, function is really rich. But I most simply words and pictures! Previously installed a similar plugins!
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To doing this kind of changes I will have to change the CSS file of wordpress but this is really nice to see that we will be able to do such thing through this plug ins.
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The plug-in is really great. Soon I will become a mega-webmaster.
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I recently drop to your blog, It’s another cool I’ve ever visited, moreover, you give this valuable plug-in-information. I think there is always a chance for me to always visit your blog. Thank you………..
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This is a lot of help buddy!! I own a lot of blogs and surely will drive this tip to all!!
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I love wordpress and I am always looking for cool plugins like this. Thanks for sharing it
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Excellent… very nice post. Thanks, his post is very short, but ….
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that is a good ideas. I hope that still develop continusly. By that plugin everyone can do all kinds of trick things to posts and page text with just the press of a button
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Good idea
Thank you very much.
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I really like the What you see is what you get editors, but my only gripe with them, is that you can’t copy/paste directly from Microsoft Word, otherwise it seems to add some gibberish code in the html, which I then have to go and edit. Otherwise I love the WYSIWYG editors!
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this would certainly help me a lot. tnx for the information you have here in your page.
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thanks for sharing, anyway i blog in blogger, and i think it need something similar too, the editor sucks and it add aditional codes to make it - as they think - better for you but it does the opposite. thanks again
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This is a nice post.. I was looking for this all day long!
Thanks
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nice blog and a good post. hope u will publish more posts. have a great day buddy
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Wow! This seems to be a really sweet tool. The standard wordpress text editor drives me crazy in that it offers such a limited number of formatting options. I will be giving this a test drive.
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yes great article thanks. hope u will publish more posts. have a great day buddy
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This is the perfect plugin for me. I love having all these buttons in plane sight. It just makes thing a bit faster.
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Thank you for this valuable article. keep on good working.
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Wow.. this is something very useful.. Thanks mate .. now i can supercharge mine
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Pretty cool. But it concerns me to give my blog posters too much creative control over the content. I would rather have sizes and fonts controlled by the CSS rather than the blogger.
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My connection speed sucks, so i would rather do it on my pc and then paste it in wordpress.
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absolutely a great plugin i have ever seen it has lots of features for my wordpress blog!
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I’m using TinyMCE too, the best featured is that they can disable the automatic and function, so we can make our own as much as we need
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I´m looking for something like that but with a search an replace funtion.
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Seems to be very ROYAL by name
. If it works, then i am sure many will be looking forward towards it. I am hearing for the first time.
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