How Do I ‘Lock’ the Editor in my browser window?

  • This is a weird one…

    I have several WordPress installations and I am still using the ‘Classic Editor’ with all of them.

    In all but one installation, when I am editing a New post, the window where I am typing remains fixed within the browser, and the toolbar at the top is always accessible at the top of the display.

    But with one of my installations, the toolbars refuses to stay fixed. When I scroll the window, rather than keeping the text in a window below the toolbar, the toolbar itself scrolls up the page and out of sight. I have to keep scrolling back to access the tools.

    Is there a setting somewhere in the Dashboard where I can get that to stop happening and fix the toolbar in place above my edit window?

    Thanks,

    –PS

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  • I suspect a plugin is interfering here. Disable all plugins except Classic Editor in the project. If it works then, one of the plugins was to blame. You can test this by re-enabling them one by one.

    Thread Starter driver49

    (@driver49)

    Thank you for steering me in the right direction.

    I was reluctant to deactive all the plugins, but just now I was looking at the Plugins page and noticed I’d recently added

    Advanced Editor Tools (previously TinyMCE Advanced)

    … in order to add sub-and-superscript characters to a post.

    I deactivated just that one plugin and… voila, the toolbar stays put.

    I might fuss with the settings in the plugin, but probably not until I need sub/supscript characters. I’ll probably just leave it deactivated till then.

    #LittleVictories!

    –P

    Glad if I could help. You could also contact the support forum of the guilty plugin for further clarification: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/tinymce-advanced/ – you can also set the topic here to solved.

    Thread Starter driver49

    (@driver49)

    Alas, it seems I spoke to soon.

    The toolbar stays locked….

    …until I get to the bottom of the text/edit window…

    …THEN the whole page scrolls up and takes the toolbar with it.

    I have a total of 19 plugins at the moment (yes, some I could do without and might just as well delete). When I find a window when that seems like the best use of my time, I’ll unplug ’em all and and see if I can find the culprit.

    Unless, maybe…. something else could be causing the issue? Beats me.

    Thanks,

    –PS

    Thread Starter driver49

    (@driver49)

    Hello, anybody still there?

    Due to another problem I created for myself, I had to deactivate all the plugins in my WP install.

    The first one I activated is the ‘Classic Editor’ — and discovered that the problem persists. When I reach the bottom of the editor window, the tool bar scrolls up off the screen.

    Wondering if this was a common occurrence, I opened the Classic Editor for another site, an discovered… why, yes, the same thing happens. When I get to the bottom of a post, the tool bar at the top scrolls out of sight.

    So, back my original question: is there some way to ‘Anchor’ the tool bar, so that it’s always there, even when I get to the bottom of the editor window?

    Thanks,

    –PS

    Thread Starter driver49

    (@driver49)

    Anybody? Bueller?

    Am I the only one with this problem?

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