bbPress 2.0 (the plugin) has built-in support for tinymce. I guess bbPress 1 would not see any more feature additions.
How do you enable tinymce. I am using bbpress 2.0.2 and don’t see this option anywhere.
Also, users can’t enter anything that looks like xhtml tags. It gets deleted when submitted. How can I enable this as well?
In wp-admin go to Settings->Forums and enable the Fancy Editor to enable using TinyMCE.
Thanks for the reply Jarret, but there is no “Enable Fancy Editor” setting in Settings -> Forums.
I’m using BBPress 2.0.2.
What Section is it under on the settings page (Main Settings, Per Page, Per RSS Page,…)?
acousticwebdesign, the “Fancy Editor” (which is using wordpress default editor) is only available in bbPress 2.1, which is still under development.
You might want to take a look
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.1
For bbPress 2.02 user, I recommend you to use Rich Text Editor For Comments which is using jWYSIWYG, although it’s may be a bit hard for beginners to configure it as it lack a setting page.
You can style the editor if you hate the default styling, provided that you know some CSS stuff.
Thanks Sniper Kitten, that’s very helpful.
What about the backtick functionality I keep seeing in the forums? From what I can guess, this is supposed to let you embed html tags (or similar) in a forum reply between backticks and have those tags show up (encoded) in the reply. Is this only a feature of 2.1 as well? It’s not working right now on my forum. This is really the only functionality I need right now.
I’m using the bbpress 2.1 and the inclusion of the fancy editor was really great. Thanks for your job!
@sniper kitten, is there a quick way to add the smiley button to the editor?
I was looking at the code but can’t see work it out. Some help would be appreciated.
@jjman – you can use this plugin to add a button for emoticons to the editor.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/
@jaredatch Thanks, I have tried that editor but it didn’t work in the environment I’m developing.
A forum user needs a basic editor but to make a blogpost I need the regular wp-editor. The tinymce-advanced seems to override all wp-editors.
I read somewhere in the forum that the develper of that plugin was planning to implement some sort of feature where you can have role-based variants but he’s not quite there yet.
Hi. I have the very latest bbpress but do not see an option in forum settings for fancy editor.
I have WP-EDIT as apparently this replaced tinymce.
Can anyone comment? I see the same editor here. Just thinking of my potential non-techy members.
Thanks!
You can add this code to your theme’s functions.php file to enable the editor.
function bbp_enable_visual_editor( $args = array() ) {
$args['tinymce'] = true;
return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_get_the_content_parse_args', 'bbp_enable_visual_editor' );
The visual editor is almost essential for the non-technical audience I have on my forum. Unfortunately, it’s not perfect. For example, if someone copies and pastes a previous post to quote it they’ll end up with a bunch of html visible in their post.
hmm, bummer. Thank you though for the code, Doug.
Perhaps it will come in handy if I don’t just use the wall.
I might need it.
Thank you, again.
jz
Doug,
I tried this in the custom functions area and my site errors out.
When I remove it, my site comes back .. fyi.
Any ideas? Thanks.
jz
@dougismith I’m getting this when I try your suggested code.
Any ideas, anyone? This was placed where the child theme for buddy press
states to, in the functions.php. (I’ using a theme called BuddyBoss, fyi)
Thanks, all.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘&’, expecting ‘]’ in /home/agonyofd/public_html/wp-content/themes/buddyboss-child/functions.php on line 60
jz
@discdemo
remove Dougs code and see if just using this will fix it. it does the same thing.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/
also see if deactivating wp-edit will fix the problem , i tried it awhile ago with the visual editor code and it was kind of buggy.
This looks to be working. I just deactivated WPEDIT right away, so not sure if it works with it.
Thanks again … Robb!
jz
How do you handle the html injection when text is copied from a source?
@mvaneijgen
there is a function to block unwanted html if thats what your saying??
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7797990
I just copied text from another website and paste it in the visual editor and the message will have html tags in te text (not rendered html)
<h2 style=”color: #00bbaa; margin: 0px; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif; line-height: normal;”>SVG for web</h2>
<p style=”margin: 15px 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”></p>
<p style=”margin: 15px 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Twee jaar geleden dachten wij een goed idee te hebben, een HTML app m....
This is what it looks like.
@mvaneijgen
did some research and this is normal
i suggest pasting any content from another website that might contain html formatting into the html area, or retype everything.
and dont copy/paste from sites into the visual editor.
Sometimes this happens when copying from within the same site. For example, you may copy and paste from a previous part of the conversation to quote it. The HTML from the site will be picked up and copied into the editor.
I just added a function to fix this behavior at the bottom of the Enable Visual Editor bbPress Codex page.
great , this is very useful @douglsmith
@mvaneijgen i guess Doug has your back on this one.
Can i add import image from Computer?
Thanks.
I was looking for something like this as well for our “non-tech savy” audience and found that @Robkk answer works best: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/
Hi @thinkDrew,
If it can help, a basic tinyMCE can also be activated in my bbP Toolkit plugin.
Pascal.
