font color during post

I believe the quicktags come from wp-admin/quicktags.js
I suppose you could try adding something in there and see if it works.

There was a plugin that allowed you to do that without hacking the file. but I don’t know if it needs to be changed (or was changed already) for 1.5

“Edit Button Template”
https://www.asymptomatic.net/wp-hacks

Instead of a long reply explaining how to do this:

https://guff.szub.net/wp-content/quicktags-color.zip

The mod to quicktags.js adds a ‘color’ button. From this, ed_color is referenced under the function edShowButton(), and the new function edInsertColor() can be found at the end.

I used <span style="color:... for setting font color. Guess I’m more of a stickler for valid XHTML than I thought…

EDIT: Note that this mod prompts you for the color. me’s solution below is easier if you always use the same color.

I use
edButtons[edButtons.length] =
new edButton("ed_strong"
,"colour"
,"<span style="color:green">"
,"</span>"
,"colour"
);

in my quicktags.js and it works fine. It simply pumps out the span colour which can be changed easily or alternatively, you can make a few buttons with different colours.

awesome, thanks i will try this one out !!

I just want to let you know that I’ve made a simple plugin to add a color picker button (where you can choose any color and automatically add the span tag to change your font color on your post) on your post/page toolbar.

If interested, you can get the plugin here.

Thanks