WYSIWYG Plugin For Wordpress
This plugin replaces the default Wordpress wysiwyg(what you see is what you get) editor with a more advanced version. Advantages over the "built-in" Wordpress editor:
•More image control! You can choose thumbnail size, adjust the compression quality setting, or choose not to create a thumbnail at all(useful for small images) all on the fly. Add images as thumbnails, full-size images, or thumbnails with a link to the full size, AND MORE!
•Extended emoticon support- just click on a smilie to add it to your post.
•Quick dictionary.com dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia lookups via a built-in plugin.
•A few extra text effects- underline, text color, highlighting, etc.
•No need to alter any of Wordpress' core files, so the plugin is easy to install and should be pretty much "upgrade-proof". All settings are configured via the Wordpress admin interface. No config files to edit! :)
Works in both IE and Mozilla!
*New Release June 8, 2007: Update for Wordpress 2.2 !
MORE and PAGE buttons added!(yes, FINALLY)
Please report any bugs below.
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LOVE it! You’re THE BESSSST!
Thank you for a wonderful plug-in
Hi all,
great work!!
this plugin is very very usefull for all level users of wordpress!!
I’ve a question: i tried it with both Seamonkey/Firefox and Internet Explorer.
With the first two everything works very well, but with IE (6 I didn’t try with 7) I’m having some problem with the background color: when I try to change it the only result I obtain is that the font color is changed instead…
I read more or less all the post in this page, but I didn’t found similar problems…
Anyone else noticed this behaviour?
Do you have any suggestion or workaround?
Thanks a lot!!
Awesome job with the wysiwyg editor. installed instantly. even I could do it. It seems buggy in safari, but works great in firefox. any ability to use tables with this? I didn't see any.
Thanks again.
Yeah! Great tutorial to install the "more-button" - I love this plugin (especially the photo upload!)
This plug-in is great. I found it for one of my "not-so-tech-savvy" clients and want to install it on all of my clients WPs. However, I'm having a problem that I need your help on. In the Write Post in the admin, I'm getting dual entry boxes which is causing confusion for clients. Do you know the problem and how to fix?
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/6388/wysiwygproblemqd3.jpg
thank is advance for your help. I'm running the most current WP version and the problem displays in both FF2 and IE6
my problem solved thanks alot
regards
www.pakdir.net
Great Job! Thanks a lot for this plugin.
Thanx for the plugin and the table addon! It works really great.
Hello, thanks for this nice plugin - It works very well!
Very usefull plugin! Thanks a lot!
Roberto
I just downloaded your plug-in and I must say it has been a life saver. Now I'm able to resize both my images physical size as well as file size, thanks for the excellent plug-in!
A fantastic plugin. It helps a lot and it´s also very simple to use. May I include a couple of functions and then resend it to you?
Wow, thanks a lot for making this! I was very frustrated when my WP wysisyg suddenly disappeared. Apparently, it is a horrible bug in the system.
After searching the internet for an hour, I found your plugin. It fixed the problem!
Great work!
****NEW VERSION****
****WYSI-Wordpress 5****
Thanks to Guenter and Israel, the plugin now contains the "MORE" button. I also added the "PAGE" button.
No offense to anyone… but I had to delete a MASSIVE amount of comments on this post. There were over 350 comments, some very long, and the page was beginning to load VERY sluggishly. So, I gave the comments a cleaning to go along with the new version.
WYSI-Wordpress 5
downloaded and installed, using iimagebrowser.php v 1.4.1 as supplied.
Inserts the pictures fine, in the right place!
What happened to the directory structure for uploading images ? (it was in version iimagebrowser 1.5.1).
Is there any way to set max size and max filesize for images?
thanks
Chris
Great plugin, works well for me. I have one question though: Is there a possiblity that the clickable thumbnail image opens in a new (pop-up) window in stead of the same window, that would be a great improvement for me….
Thanks again, The dude
Hi,
I followed your install and I had very few icons, and then I could not even type in the text area…..
Help?
I installed eveyrthing as stated…but It doesnt work…
I had the rich editor still on …
All fixed…
Is there any chance you guys will be adding a format ability to the fonts…ie the ability to add H1 Tags, and or font size?
Thank you for a great plug-in! The built in did not work as advertised. But yours truly did!
But how do i activate new plug-ins for TineMCE?
Could we PLEASE get a line break to work? <br> Adding extra lines of space are a problem unless in HTML mode.
Joey: Linebreaks already work- just hold down shift while pressing enter-
TADA!
Hi JD,
I am having installation problems with the latest version that I downloaded from your site at: http://mudbomb.com/images/files/Wysi-Wordpress5.zip I followed the instructions in the readme.txt file, placing the iimage_browser.php file in the wp-admin directory, activating the plugin and removing the "rich editor" option from my user profile, but it didn't modify the textarea. I'm left with a completely normal and simple text area in the post screen. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Chris
UPDATE:
Hi JD, I resolved the issue by renaming the Wysi-Wordpress directory to wysi because my host (1&1) or maybe even wordpress 2.2 seemed to be having trouble with it. I have no idea. I also had to change references to this directory in the wysiwordpress.php file.
thanks,
Chris
hey, this is great, but can't embed anything from youtube unless i turn it off… any idea how to fix? if I copy/paste the embed code in it just never shows up, even if put into html mode. save and come back and it's like it was never there.
Thx man
giving it a try
my default editor is corrupted
man very good plugin
i will try to integrate inside comments
excuse me my english i speak spanish
Nice plugin, thanks for sharing it
I have installed the plugin and i have a small problem.
The archives links and the category link dosent work any more.
Did i miss something?
Tx
Your plugin doesn't play nicely with:
Kimili's Flash Embed plugin
The problem is that your editor transforms double quotes to it's ascii brother: "
Is there a simple work-around for this?
Thanks
I simply LOVE this plugin!
Yet a question: how the heck can one insert a line break after a thumbnail? Shift-Enter does not work, nothing works, HEEEEELP!
A few things.
1) To Comment by jen — Jun. 19, 2007: Jen, there's a great plugin in the WP plugin directory called Viper Video or something that adds video buttons from different sites to your WYSIWYG editor. It's compatible with the mudbomb editor.
2) I'm going to try and update to 2.2.1 Will the plugin still work? (I'm not clear on the whole decimal point version-numbering systems.)
Just wanna let you know, your plugin is working perfectly on wp 2.2.1. Thank you for the very kind effort.
Love, light and laughter
i'd really like to know how to change the actual code-embedding process, so that i can add a "rel=lightbox" part to the code so it works with lightbox.
i'd appreciate a pretty quick reply
i'm leaving to get married soon, and i'd like to set up my wedding site in time. and yes, i am leaving in 2 days … must always do things at the last minute.
a small hint would suffice, tell me what file to search through. thanks.
Excellent plugin - exactly what I was looking for - good job!
have WP 2.0 something or other. Installed new wysiwyg version into WP plug-ins directory. Does not appear in plug-in manager. Have not installed php file yet into wp-admin diretory.
Thought I would ask before doing anything more. Will wysiwyg for wp 2.2 work for me?
Or do I need to upgrade. If so, I will need some help with that. Do you know someone who could?
I am having the same issue mores. I have installed the plugin just fine but working with lightbox does not work.
When entering rel="lightbox" in the HTML editor it does not save. This feature alone has tempted me to disable and remove your plugin. Is there a work around for this issue?
please use better launguage, young people are on this
Danke für das plugin
I also want to be able to add in rel="lightbox" please let us know where to code it!
the plugin doesn't seem to work with WP 2.1.3
Great! Thanks!
Suggestion: Is it possible to include an option for choosing heading styles (H1, H2, H3). This is good SEO.
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Does this work in Safari?
When activating the plugin on my WP instance I get the following output on the admin's header: ' . '>>Insert Image<< '; } else { print '' . '' . '>>Insert Image<<
'; } } // The popup needs some CSS and javascript in the head of the page function ib_print_insert_image_head() { print ' '; } // Add actions to call the function add_action('admin_head', 'ib_print_insert_image_head'); if ($ib_use_hack) { add_action('edit_form_advanced_buttons', 'ib_print_insert_image_link'); } else { add_action('admin_footer', 'ib_print_insert_image_link'); } // ex: set tabstop=3: ?>
Am I doing something wrong ?
Hi,
I am trying to create a picture and video gallery …so can we make it with this plug in ? No matter I will try
Thanks for this!
Very Nice! I am having a bit of trouble getting it to work though.
Hmm, can't get it to work. If I install and activate the plug-in and then go to write entry, there are no buttons at all. I have disabled the rich visual editor option for my user. Any other suggestions?
Thanks a BUNCH.
Works perfectly in Firefox on Mac, but in Safari 3.0.2, the ordered/unordered lists won't fire, nor will the indent work.
Small price to pay for better image handling, though.
I can't get the image compression/resizing to work.
All the other features work nicely. I upload the image, with the thumbnail checked for 350 pixels on largest side, with 70 px Quality. It then upload the image as full size, and no matter how many times I try to resize it wont do it.
Any help would be appreciated. I really want this feature, because im lazy.
great your plugin and readme file along with it proved tremendously helpful for me keep up the good work I am going 2 click on all the ads in your site
I am having the same issue mores. I have installed the plugin just fine but working with FOOTNOTE PLUGIN does not work.
When entering bla bla bla in the editor. the result posting same appear bla bla bla . when deactive footnote plugin it’s still the same.
Thank you for this great plugin. I was looking for something like this since a while
Thanks a lot for making this! Great site with very good look and perfect information.
Thanks for this!
works great but upload a file does not work with me…
This be dandy
Is there a way with this plugin to get WYSIWYG in the comments, like this thingy I'm typing into here?
Thanks.
Thank you creating this plugin.
There are never any instructions with anything related to WordPress. If you've used WordPress, great, you know where to unzip this great WYSIWYG editor and get it working. If you don't, there's never any instructions…
Good
hey guy!
i have a problem with the table-plugin.
after editing the wordpress.js and reloading the site no option for table is shown.
do you have an idea?
its an amazing plugin, but its not working with wp 2.2.2 =/
I am using Wordpress 2.0.2. Recently I have started using Wysi-wordpress plugin. It is Excellent but surprisingly, when I activate this plugin, my upload file section is missing from Write Post.
How can i upload files when I am using Wysi-wordpress plugin?
Any one can help to solve this problem.
thanks,
-GopiNath
I am having the same problem as GopiNath. Everything works fine in FF on Mac/Win. Upload box vanishes in IE6/7 … Probably related to the plugin using an iframe (yuck!)
Hi,
I got errors after install the plugins. I cannot insert image file from my local drive. My wordpress is 2.2.1.
Below is the error that I get :
Not a valid image file.PHP Warning: unlink() [function.unlink]: Permission denied in C:\domains\keeyit.com\wwwroot\wp-admin\iimage-browser.php on line 815 please advise.Thanks.
The html file for help/installation has failed twice.
Where do I put the iimage file that is separate from the plugin folder?
is this working with the latest version of wordpress?
Thank you!
This plug-in is incredible!
Thank you so much.
Good work! However, when I open the HTML window to supply some extra code (e.g., define a class for the <a> tag or include any specific css and javascript code) and press the Update button all the changes are discarded. Any fix for this?
Thanks!
Van
Hi. I have WP2.1+ and used your plug-in for WP2.2. When I was writing a post, I noticed that anarchy and adsense plug-ins are gone and my more button messes everything up. The section after the more button disappears from the published post.
When I put the html code for adsense in, it does not show up either. Do I need to update WP? Help. My site is www.green-talk.com and you will see this long post. Urg.
I too am having trouble having the HTML editor save my inputs. This is a pretty drastic problem. Any updates or workarounds?
The html editor option is also not working on my website. Same story as above. If I typ <font size="4">test</font> and I press update the code got changed to <font>test</font> I can't use this plug-in when this is not working, still a nice one, will certainly use it when this is fixed
Thank´s - Danke
great job.
Hi JD,
How can I add a simple quicktag ?
example : <div id="blabla">mytext</div>
Thank you for this plugin
very good ! i like it ,thanks for your work!
very cool……
I have a problem with the latest version download on the date I made this comment. The pop up windows for the image tabs are to small. How do you go about expanding it or can you add a feature to control this option in your next version?
Thanks for an awesome editor.
JC
I'm using this plugin on an up-coming website I'm working on, and absolutely love it! Extremely easy to use, even people not familiar with WP are using it without trouble. Thank you for creating such an awesome piece of software and giving it away!
For those having issues with Lightbox working, I've found a simple fix. Simply open wordpress.js and find the following line: extended_valid_elements : "a[name|href|target|title|onclick] and change it to extended_valid_elements : "a[name|href|target|title|onclick|rel], save and upload. It's that simple! Enjoy!
You have my thx, too mate.
Lovely plug so far
this looks lik a good plugin …
gonna check it out now …
thanks and great work …
Thanks, great Editor!
Is there a way to increase or decrease the font size and type in the editor? Are there any add ons for these?
When I activate the plugin - then go to "write" menu - can't get cursor into text window. But - CAN enter text into title window.
Any suggestions?
Very promising plugin.
Jon
The Wysiwyg is the best Editor and it's great that you have build a plugin that we can use the Wysiwyg Editor now in Wordpress.
Excellent plugin! This will allow me to let department heads change their own pages on our church site. Changeable text size or perhaps a button for header tags and it would be perfect. Thanks again! Jeremy
Hey! hello! I really LOVE this usefull plugin! I'm very excited because I found it!
I have a question for you. Is there some way (or some place to find how) to add the Editor in other plugins whitn yours? I mean, I have for example, a plugin that helps me to sent mails to mailing lists, but as I have to deactivate WP visual editor, that plugin fails to upload yours, because you only specify some places by default to ad it
Any ideas?? thank you very much!
hey, love this plugin.can i translate it to german? how would i do that?
Hi good work, however i am getting the following error when uploading pics (i can see the error is a double // but i have no idea how to get rid of it, ive checked wordpress options and its not a error in the specified option in the admin) any ideas ??
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It doesn't look like you can use the file upload feature at this time because the directory you have specified (/home/venturet/public_html//wp-content/uploads/) doesn't appear to be writable by WordPress. Check the permissions on the directory and for typos.
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haha ignore previous post, i simply had to change permissions on the folder!!
I cannot get this to work with Wordpress MU? I have followed all of the steps in the readme file.
For anyone else who had issues with the Image Browser, uploading files using the latest WYSIWYG 5 plugin, please remember to do the following after you've installed the plugin:
Go to the iimage-browser.php file in wp-admin folder and search for all instances of $HTTP_POST_FILES. Replace these with $_FILES. Of course, take a backup of the file before you do these modifications in case something goes tits up.
This should let you upload files without a hitch. Why the file still has things like that and $_REQUEST is beyond me.
This did not work at all for me, using wordpress 2.3.1. The toolbar looked the same as before, but none of the items on the toolbar worked. So, basically, it disabled the existing editor. Did I do something wrong? I'd really love to be able to put tables into my wp posts!
I did get it to work in WP 2.3.1. You have to disable rich editor for your user. Go to admin panel. Click on Users. Click on the user name. Uncheck the box that says:
"Use the visual editor when writing"
Then save settings. You have to do this for everyone who uses your wordpress, because this plugin breaks the default rich text editor.
It's awesome to have tables - THANKS!!!
Hi,
I am having a problem with this. Othervise everything works but when opening the image browser in the popup window it show my sites front page, not pictures…
what could be wrong?
H.
Hannu,
I had same problem - here's the fix: When you extract the Wysi-Wordpress5.zip file, there's one file called iimagebrowser.php that you have to put into your wp-admin directory of your blog site. That wasn't explained anywhere, I just had to figure it out by debugging! Good luck!
Ok, I got the image thing sort of working, but it is very buggy. It does not always work, and does not always create thumbnails. Also, it doesn't let you sort images into different folders, which would get very unweildly after a while, when you have lots of images. So…. I tried the FCK Editor for wordpress, and it seems to work perfectly - tables and all.
http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin/
I've reverted back to using the mudbomb wysywig for wordpress with table plug in. FCK editor was cumbersome to install, and their image uploader did not create thumbnails. Plus, it broke the default wordpress image uploader. You could not insert an image with the default image uploader…some javascript error.
As a side note, I was having a problem with the wordpress default image uploader crashing when uploading even small pictures. This occurrerd while using either of the two wyswig editors I talked about here. My error logs said the script was running out of the allotted 8M memory. Apparently, the wywysig editors put my site over the top of this memory limit, causing the image uploader to crash.
I fixed it by putting this line of code in my .htaccess file…
php_value memory_limit 16M
and now the default image editor does not crash.
Bottom line, is this mudbomb wywsig editor with the table plug in works great. Gives me basic stuff plus tables. I use the default wordpress editor. Thanks for this great tool!
Does this work with Wordpress 2.3?
Hola!
Have you thought about WPG2? it's a plugin to integrate wordpress and gallery2. I has a button in the editor to add files into your posts but with you wyiwyg plugin, the button is not shown
Any idea?
Hi there,
maybe I can get some advise here. i use your plugin at several WP Blog and works like a charm, install and use, no problems. Yet i run in a hick-up I was wondering if i can do somethings about since I real like to use the WYSIWYG plugin. When using the Lytebox plugin (http://grupenet.com/2007/08/03/wp-lytebox/) the feature with the thumbnails works yet when try the HTML content feature and ad link in HTML it does not function, seems like it strips that code. If plugin disabled in the editor of WP it works.Any advise on that?? Sorry for poor english, aint my first language. T.
when deactive footnote plugin it’s still the same.
I was having a problem with the wordpress default image uploader crashing when uploading even small pictures.
great plugin! no spellcheck?
This what i am looking for thank you very much
Thanks
Labyasnigh Ray
http://www.greatkhali.net
hi there! First off, thanks for this great plugin, i'm using it for a year or so now, but i was wondering, i'm setting up a wordpress website for a client of mine and the client has close to zero knowledge, so i was wondering, is there a way to have the editor when uploading images to set the size of the images automatically to (an aspect ratio) width of 381px (so that it will fit the layout.) instead of my client having to do that? I know it's not that much of a hassle to resize it when uploading, but i want to take as much work out of their hands where i can.
Many thnxs in advance!
Hi, where is my post? I wrote here 2 posts and now there is no posts
.
I want just know how to add button into wysi editor. can someone answer to me?
HiYa
Just updated my page at Codex [1]… FCK is upped to 2.5.1 … what version are you using now?
cheers
– bentrem
1. http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Bentrem/EditorScratch
Oh-woops … got crossed up; it's FCKEditor that's updated.
cheers
Hi. I'm very new to WordPress, and there's probably an obvious answer here, but I can't find it.
When using the "split post with page tag," I don't know how to find and display the additonal added pages. Right now, all I see displayed is the text written before the "split post with page tag" is added.
I'd really appreciate any help with this. Thanks a lot.
Dana
Hi! Thank you very much, that is exactly the editor I have been looking for so long. Greetings Markus
GREAT wysiwyg editor for WP ! cheers !
I love the plugin. I am just wondering if it works with Anarchy Video plugin. Can you please help me out? I don't show the links in the WYSIWYG now for Anarchy plugin. Wordpress says that it is compatible with WP-2.3.2.
Look forward to hearing from you.
I wonder what is the use of this step in read me?
6. Configure your upload settings in Wordpress on the Options->Miscellaneous tab.
UNCHECK "Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders"
Hi there and thanks for the plugin. All works great except I have the same problem as Van.
Comment by Van Morris — Aug. 23, 2007 @ 10:52 AM
Good work! However, when I open the HTML window to supply some extra code (e.g., define a class for the <a> tag or include any specific css and javascript code) and press the Update button all the changes are discarded. Any fix for this?
Thanks!
Van
If you could point me in the direction for the fix I would appreciate.Thanks from Grant
Thanks for the plug-in! I have the same problem as Dana. Any solutions yet?
Hi,
If I copy and past an excel table into this editor will it render it well on the page?
Thanks
Great conversion, but editing any previous posts joins ALL paragraph breaks into one long para. WP V.2.3.2 That means, I can not edit any posts without reformatting. Pity
I've uploaded the files twice now and I do not have any new plugin available to activate.
Also, in V 2.3.2, I do not see an option to uncheck "Users should use the isual rich editor by default".
Any help would be much appreciated. I am anxious to use this great tool.
I cannot get it to work with WP 2.3.3. I just downloaded both WP and the plug in today.
The icons show up once I turn off "use visual editor" in User Options, however, they don't do anything. I can click on them, but they don't change any formatting.
I can't possibly be the only one having this problem!
Okay - here's the strange thing:
If I disable the plug-in and use the standard HTML editor to add markup to a post, then turn on the plug-in, the WYSI-Wordpress plugin reflects the changes made while in standard HTML mode. But I can't add new changes using the plug-in itself.
Dougf, I think in V2.3.2 the option changed to "Use the Visual Editor when writing" — and you have to navigate to Users (from the WP menu) and edit the user profile.
This plugin work in 2.3.3 ver?
is there any ver that working with the new wordpress?
thanks
GREAT PLUGIN !
Excellent!
I was going crazy with the standart wysiwyg which "clean" my code as it wants.
Thank you for sharing your work!
Not working on my blog. Not only did the mouse cursor just not work on the text edit area but the wysiwyg plugin didn't display itself.
Looks to be just what I need. Going to check it out. Much appreciated.
http://www.nela.in/
Hi, looks good but I have the same problem as Alejandro…
It integrates all my plugins but the most important one: WPG2 which is used to embed thumbnails from Gallery2.
Any idea why the WPG2 icon doesn't show up??
Christophe
Hey Thanks,
Your editor is much simpler.
I still can't get a correct paragraph after inserting a pic(unless I flood the right side of pic with space), for now!
It works but requires html edit, which works great too….except in some cases edits are stripped!
You wouldn't happen to have a list of codes that will or will not work, would you?
Good Stuff:)
Thank you for ur job
Excellent!
I was going crazy with the standart wysiwyg which "clean" my code as it wants.
Thank you for sharing your work!
yes,it's really excellent ! tq for the author's good article !
Excellent plugin. Thanks for sharing!
I'm sure you've considered this but…
2. Upload the file 'iimage-browser.php' into the *wp-admin* directory.
will lead to all sorts of upgrade hassles when people forget to move it back (because we all upgrade properly don't we
)
and is it possible to add the font menu option?
Hi..i uploaded into wordpress 2.6 and what i saw was 2 sets of posting screens. It is a great plugin which i use for one of my site in wordpress2.2 which i have not upgraded since.
Could you please update this for wordpress2.6? That would be really nice. Thanks a lot.
@Cake: That will happen when you do not switch to HTML mode in the normal editor before enabling the plugin. You need to disable the plugin, open a post / page, change to the HTML mode view, save the page (to save the HTML view setting), and re-enable the plugin. I have had the multiple-posting screen problem multiple times and that has always been the fix.
I have the same problem as Cake Decorator.
I installed it with Wordpress 2.6 and it shows 2 sets of posting screens. If I try to add a picture it will only add it to the bottom set of posting screens, but if I click publish it won't publish what I write in the bottom one, only the top one
What about with the generated code through this new post editor? Is it a W3C compliant post editor?
Hi, to avoid Spam like the last comment, use the Bad Behavior Plug for wp. It work´s fine.
Very usefull plugin! Thanks a lot!
Roberto
I am testing on WP 2.7.1 Firefox 3.0.6 Mac OS 10.5.6 Latest version of Flash (does this use flash?). I have disabled everything but Akismet and FCKeditor, and it does not show-up I just get a blank box.
Any ideas on where the conflict is coming from?