Custom Buttons

I don’t know how to do that in the wysiwyg – I never use it.
But for the “normal” editor you can just add your own buttons to the quicktags.js file.
In earlier editions – see wp-admin/quicktags.js;
for 2.0.x wp-includes/js/quicktags.js

Guide for adding your tags: https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/quicktags/

Another option for adding quicktags is the WP-AddQuickTag plugin. Works nicely for me…

Hi again,

I know how to adjust quicktags.

But I need the buttons in the wysiwyg editor shipping with WP. It’s for a client unable to use bare html. That’s also why I need the buttons in the first place, of course I can handcode anything in that I want in a post. But for her I need buttons which do it for her.

So no, quicktags aren’t what I’m looking for. It needs to display and work in the WP-TinyMCE.

To be honest I always considered the wysiwyg more dangerous in the hand of code-illiterate users than the simple html editor ??
Usually I don’t even tell them about the wysiwyg ?? Just provide them with the necessary 5-7 quicktags and let them fly…

Hi moshu,

LOL

I tried and allowed her to dabble with another WP setup with just Quicktags. She’s SO html-illiterate that she was gravely disturbed by the html tags displayed and balked at editing (“don’t find my way around this”).

So unfortunately I have to use the wysiwyg editor. If it only was one less apt to f..k up… *sigh*

Anyway – the site is about animal breeding, she needs to be able to insert pedigrees and that means a pre-configured table she sees and can post into (the cells). I can write her the relevant table, but I want a button for her, which inserts this html with one click.

I’m no programmer, so hacking something together with Buttonsnap already is beyond me, not to speak of the ideal – a form which would transmit data to a post in coded form (there’s not by any chance something like this available, is it?).

sorry for the around the block answer but

for listing pedigrees you could install 2 plugins… the Custom Fields GUI plugin (to make a nice GUI with radio buttons for her to click on, or drop-down menus, how easy is that!), and you could code the Get Custom Fields plugin, to display a nice table of output that she selected in the GUI (which appears right under the posting dialog on Write > Post, at least it does in WP 1.5.x)

Hi,

it’s early morning and the 800 km highway drive of yesterday still in my bones (and brain)…

I tried to wrap my soggy brains around this and arrive only at being quite a bit puzzled ??

As every pedigree will contain different names, colors, titles and registration numbers, and as there will be some 10,000++ individuals to choose from, I doubt these can be entered in a dropdown menu?

What I’d actually need is a plugin which allows entering values (text) in certain fields which then will write the content into a stylewise and html-wise pre-configured table, which then gets published to a page’s main content. A little bit like a comment.

I also somehow always had trouble with the custom fields, as they applied to all pages/post rather than only specified ones.

Booo-hooo…

I’m still hunting for a solution *sigh*

Hey, I’m trying to use ButtonSnap as well at the moment, but can’t work out how to code my own buttons….

I just want a button that will add a span around the selected text with the class of ‘mp3’

selected text

would turn into…

<span class="mp3">selected text</span>

Is this possible?

I’ll second 3stripe’s motion, except I usually use “id” instead of “class”, like so:

<span id=”srn”>Hello, world!</span>

Is there anybody out there that can help with this?

Ben, I’ve been struggling with this for a week – good to know someone else is stuck too ??

I’ve asked quite a few people about this but no answers yet.

If I do work it out, I’d love to turn it into a “wysiywg css styles”plugin, so it’s not so hard for everybody else.