WYSIWYG Text Widgets

[BBMedia]

The old plugin that performed the task of adding a WP WYSIWYG function to a text widget block doesn't work on any wordpress install beyond 2.5.

I have a client who wants the ability to edit their widgets using a WYSIWYG function. Currently I've told them the following:

My suggestion is to start a new post and do all your "manipulating"/"editing" with the tools in the editor, then when you are happy with it, switch to the HTML tab, copy all the stuff in that window and then paste it into the text widget. Don't worry about the differences in width or anything like that. Text will flow and break as required in the text widget.

Does anyone have any other ideas? Or is there another plugin or hacks that will work to create a WYSIWYG text widget?

[Jeffro]

Boy, this has been a requested feature/idea for quite some time. I believe I know the Plugin your talking about and there has not been much development for it for some time. I have no idea of any other plugin that provides a quick visual editor to the text widgets.

[dancole]

Can you put up a link to the plugin. It can't be too hard to fix. I wonder what changed that broke it? Is it: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...g-text-widget/ ???

It'd actually be nice if WordPress make some of it's functionality more modular, so developers could take advantage of it else where with one single function call.

[BBMedia]

Yes, the plugin I was referring to (that is now broken on WP installs past 2.5) is:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...g-text-widget/

and the developer page...
http://www.findableblogs.com/plugins...g-text-widget/

[Martin]

Might be worth looking at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rich-text-widget/

[BBMedia]

Good idea about the rich-text-widget. I'll run it through some tests and give you all some feedback.

[BBMedia]

Okay, the quick review is that this Rich Text Plugin is exactly what my client wants.

Gives you the option of seeing the HTML Code or the Visual editor by switching tabs. The plugin also does the following:
- Adds the Upload/Insert = Image/Video/Audio/Media buttons
- Adds the basic TinyMCE buttons
- Displays the "path" at the bottom of the screen for following URLs.
- And includes the spell check

I'm going to hack up a few things in the plugin code to see if I can modify a few things. But at first glance, this is exactly what lots of people have been asking for.

[serpico]

@BBMedia - did you ever get this working? I'd love a copy!

[Jeffro]

If he did get it working, you can get it from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rich-text-widget/ to try it yourself. One of these days, widgets will have this functionality by default.