Get More From Your WordPress WYSIWYG Editor

May 9, 2007 by Chris Winfield | Blogging

If you’re blog is running on WordPress 2.1, there is a cool little trick that you can do to completely upgrade the built-in WYSIWYG editor.

WordPress Advanced WYSIWYG Editor

This expanded WYSIWYG editor will give you the ability to easily control:

  • Text styles
  • Underlining
  • Full paragraph alignment
  • The color of your text
  • Two varieties of paste (text and Word)
  • Formatting removal
  • Code cleanup
  • Insert custom characters
  • Undo/redo

The nice part if that there isn’t anything you need to install to get it. The next time you are writing a post in your WordPress blog – simply use one of these shortcuts (based on what browser you use);

FireFox Alt+Shift+V

Internet Explorer Alt+V

FireFox Running on OS X Ctrl+V


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10 Responses to “Get More From Your WordPress WYSIWYG Editor”

  1. Matt on May 10th, 2007 12:14 am

    Hey! That’s a really useful tip! Happen to know if there’s any way for it to expand by default?

    Thanks!
    Matt

  2. Chris Winfield on May 10th, 2007 2:53 pm

    Hi Matt –

    Glad you liked it! I don’t see a way to toggle it to be on as a default but I’ll try to find out for you. Or if anyone else using Wordpress knows – please leave a comment.

    Thanks

  3. Paul on May 14th, 2007 3:27 pm

    Thanks, this is very useful indeed! I’ve been running Wordpress (and loving it) for the past couple of weeks and had no idea about this.

  4. Chris Winfield on May 14th, 2007 3:53 pm

    Glad to hear it’s helpful to you Paul!

  5. Patrick Schaber on May 15th, 2007 12:46 pm

    Chris – Great tip! I never knew that existed. Thank you!

  6. Chris Winfield on May 15th, 2007 12:48 pm

    My pleasure Patrick – it’s really a big help…

  7. jameswillisisthebest on September 8th, 2007 4:44 pm

    This is my first post
    just saying HI

  8. apophis on November 17th, 2008 11:07 pm

    Thanks a lot for this post

  9. RohitK on May 21st, 2009 12:57 pm

    Now Blog are More Than Just Talk. It is more of information getting. So search engine should give ur blog in the 1st page…but http://en.wordpress.com/tags/
    is helping a lot than blogspot as blogspot do not have this type of option…and writing in wordpress is better than blogspot……

  10. Scott %9 on June 29th, 2009 12:32 pm

    You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found your blog. thanks

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