[serulin]

I’m surprised that BBpress doesnt have a visual text editor. Are there any plans to create one or have support for integrating existing ones like tinymce/ckeditor ?

I’m currently using bbPress Post Toolbar and find it kind of lacking.

[Gautam Gupta]

bbPress 2.0 (the plugin) has built-in support for tinymce. I guess bbPress 1 would not see any more feature additions.

[acousticwebdesign]

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?

[Jarret]

In wp-admin go to Settings->Forums and enable the Fancy Editor to enable using TinyMCE.

[acousticwebdesign]

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,…)?

[Sniper Kitten]

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.

[acousticwebdesign]

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.

[jjman]

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.

[Jared Atchison]

@jjman – you can use this plugin to add a button for emoticons to the editor.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

[jjman]

@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.

[discdemo]

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!

[Doug Smith]

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.

[discdemo]

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

[discdemo]

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

[discdemo]

@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

[Robkk]

@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.

[discdemo]

This looks to be working. I just deactivated WPEDIT right away, so not sure if it works with it.
Thanks again … Robb!
jz

[mvaneijgen]

How do you handle the html injection when text is copied from a source?

[Robkk]

@mvaneijgen

there is a function to block unwanted html if thats what your saying??

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/7797990

[mvaneijgen]

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.

[Robkk]

@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.

[Doug Smith]

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.

[Robkk]

great , this is very useful @douglsmith

@mvaneijgen i guess Doug has your back on this one.

[atomnet]

Can i add import image from Computer?

Thanks.

[thinkDrew]

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/

[Pascal Casier]

Hi @thinkDrew,

If it can help, a basic tinyMCE can also be activated in my bbP Toolkit plugin.

Pascal.