1st ever custom theme, but with issues?

Have you tried creating your own editor-style.css for your theme?

No, that doesn’t work either?

Why doesn’t it work? It has always worked in all of the themes that I have created. Are you enqueing it correctly?

I think you need to provide a full (or relative) URL to the add_editor_style function to get this to work – so you might use get_stylesheet_directory_uri or get_bloginf(‘siteurl’) to get the URL of the site. Just make sure what you’re putting into add_editor_style is something you could copy into the address bar of a web browser

Hi all, not sure where im going wrong or how to resolve this as I am a newbee to this. In my header I have:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url') ?>">

and then in my functions I have:

add_editor_style('editor-style.css');

and finally my editor-style.css I have:

/* =WordPress Core
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
.alignnone {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

.aligncenter,
div.aligncenter {
    display: block;
    margin: 5px auto 5px auto;
}

.alignright {
    float:right;
    margin: 5px 0 20px 20px;
}

.alignleft {
    float: left;
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

.aligncenter {
    display: block;
    margin: 5px auto 5px auto;
}

a img.alignright {
    float: right;
    margin: 5px 0 20px 20px;
}

a img.alignnone {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

a img.alignleft {
    float: left;
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

a img.aligncenter {
    display: block;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

.wp-caption {
    background: #fff;
    border: 1px solid #f0f0f0;
    max-width: 96%; /* Image does not overflow the content area */
    padding: 5px 3px 10px;
    text-align: center;
}

.wp-caption.alignnone {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

.wp-caption.alignleft {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

.wp-caption.alignright {
    margin: 5px 0 20px 20px;
}

.wp-caption img {
    border: 0 none;
    height: auto;
    margin: 0;
    max-width: 98.5%;
    padding: 0;
    width: auto;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
    font-size: 11px;
    line-height: 17px;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0 4px 5px;
}

Firstly – I’d recommend you place your “add_editor_style” call into the ‘admin_init’ action so you can be sure it’s fired at the appropriate time. Secondly, can you verify that your website can access the file at editor-style.css?

Visit: https://<your site url>/wp-content/themes/<your-theme-folder-name>/editor-style.css and make sure it loads? if not – can you verify permissions / file locations?

Another thing to try – load up the new posts admin page (with the editor) and go to view source. you should be able to search the source for “editor-style” and see the one you’re referring to in the tinymce code. If this isn’t found – WP is not able to access that file for some reason.

let me know how that looks.

thanks!
Bryan

Thanks Bryan, I’ll give it ago and let you know

Hi Bryan,

The only way I can get this working is to add the following to my main css file but surely this isnt correct is it?

@import url("editor-style.css");

Sorry im really confused and really stuck. I just want the changes I make in the back end text editor to show on my front end pages?

Ok, yeah – we’ll get this working! What’s your live site URL?

Thanks mate. I’ve actually got it running of my local host, could that make a difference?

Can you try this?

load up the new posts admin page (with the editor) and go to view source in the browser. you should be able to search the source for “editor-style.css” and see the one you’re referring to in the tinymce code.

Is that in the source? This will tell us if the add_editor_style command is working, and that WP can find your file.

Hi mate, ok following your steps above I have found the following code:

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			baseURL: "https://localhost/wordpress/wp-includes/js/tinymce",
			suffix: ".min",
			dragDropUpload: true,			mceInit: {'content':{theme:"modern",skin:"lightgray",language:"en",formats:{
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							{selector: 'p,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,td,th,div,ul,ol,li', styles: {textAlign:'left'}},
							{selector: 'img,table,dl.wp-caption', classes: 'alignleft'}
						],
						aligncenter: [
							{selector: 'p,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,td,th,div,ul,ol,li', styles: {textAlign:'center'}},
							{selector: 'img,table,dl.wp-caption', classes: 'aligncenter'}
						],
						alignright: [
							{selector: 'p,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,td,th,div,ul,ol,li', styles: {textAlign:'right'}},
							{selector: 'img,table,dl.wp-caption', classes: 'alignright'}
						],
						strikethrough: {inline: 'del'}
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			qtInit: {'content':{id:"content",buttons:"strong,em,link,block,del,ins,img,ul,ol,li,code,more,close,fullscreen"},'replycontent':{id:"replycontent",buttons:"strong,em,link,block,del,ins,img,ul,ol,li,code,close"}},
			ref: {plugins:"charmap,hr,media,paste,tabfocus,textcolor,fullscreen,wordpress,wpeditimage,wpgallery,wplink,wpdialogs,wpview,wpfullscreen",theme:"modern",language:"en"},
			load_ext: function(url,lang){var sl=tinymce.ScriptLoader;sl.markDone(url+'/langs/'+lang+'.js');sl.markDone(url+'/langs/'+lang+'_dlg.js');}
		};
		</script>
		<script type='text/javascript' src='https://localhost/wordpress/wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-tinymce.php?c=1&ver=4021-20140412'></script>
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Hi Bryan,

OK think I may have sorted it at my template

What I was doing was making changes in editor-style.css and expecting it to change on front end, but I read the following at WordPress CSS and I didnt realise that I had to include the WordPress Core styles within my style.css file

/* =WordPress Core
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
.alignnone {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

.aligncenter,
div.aligncenter {
    display: block;
    margin: 5px auto 5px auto;
}

.alignright {
    float:right;
    margin: 5px 0 20px 20px;
}

.alignleft {
    float: left;
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

.aligncenter {
    display: block;
    margin: 5px auto 5px auto;
}

a img.alignright {
    float: right;
    margin: 5px 0 20px 20px;
}

a img.alignnone {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

a img.alignleft {
    float: left;
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

a img.aligncenter {
    display: block;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto
}

.wp-caption {
    background: #fff;
    border: 1px solid #f0f0f0;
    max-width: 96%; /* Image does not overflow the content area */
    padding: 5px 3px 10px;
    text-align: center;
}

.wp-caption.alignnone {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

.wp-caption.alignleft {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

.wp-caption.alignright {
    margin: 5px 0 20px 20px;
}

.wp-caption img {
    border: 0 none;
    height: auto;
    margin: 0;
    max-width: 98.5%;
    padding: 0;
    width: auto;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
    font-size: 11px;
    line-height: 17px;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0 4px 5px;
}

I’m assuming thats what i was doing wrong?

Hmm – yeah – styles in editor-styles.css will not appear on the frontend – that’s only loaded when you’re in the post editor. It looks like you’re editor-styles.css is loading properly, given the snippet you posted. Are you seeing the styles in editor-styles.css manifested on the “Add New Post” page editor?

Hi mate, yeah I am seeing a border when I add border to the img properties in the css and it appears in the editor but not front end so that tells me the editor-style.css works. Thanks again and sorry for the confusion my end.