Comments on: About Me Widget for WordPress 2.8.x, or Embeding tinyMCE in a WordPress Widget

By: jba

jba — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:26:47 +0000

Hi Norbel,

Sounds like the jPlugin is designed to make tinyMCE play nice with jQuery systems, which is a good thing.

But like you I still don’t think that will work effectively with the way the WordPress designed the widget page. I think the approach I took, though incredibly hacky, is the cleanest with respect to orphan controls and rogue drag and drop events etc.

By: norbel

norbel — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:58:00 +0000

Hi, jba,
seems to me, that a lot of people are working on the same problem. In my case, I found out, that tinymce in a widget is only working with the tinymce jPlugin, that takes care of the AJAX.
That means:
enqueue your tinymce plugin on the website and do a lazy load in the form() sub of your widget.

Remaining problems: wordpress does call form() serveral times during drag&drop. That might be easy for textareas, but is dangerous for js scripts in your widget.

You may observe, if your widget works, if you switch accessablity mode (that disables drag and drop.

Currently, I haven’t found a way to init tinymce when it’s safe to do so.

For my widget, I have to save, and afterwards tinymce is ready to accept input, due to tinymce zombies created by drag and drop

Greetings norbel

By: jba

jba — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:08:40 +0000

As per this post, I now have published the changes to make the widget work in WordPress 2.9, and bumped the plugin version to 2.1. Enjoy.

By: jba

jba — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:42:05 +0000

Think I have a local fix. It now involves 3 dirty hacks and it’s likely the next release will break it. I’m going to try and make contact with the WP devs instead and try and get them to design the widget screen to facilitate the binding of custom edit and save events. It’s the cleaner solution.

By: Geoffrey Allan Plauché

Geoffrey Allan Plauché — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:02:10 +0000

Looks like the update to 2.9 broke the widget.

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By: Geoffrey Allan Plauché

Geoffrey Allan Plauché — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:41:06 +0000

Thanks, JBA. I refreshed the browser and everything seems to be working now except the “Style” dropdown menu. I’m using Google Chrome (not Chromium) for Linux.

By: jba

jba — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:37:03 +0000

The title field is designed to be rendered in exactly the same style as all the other sidebar titles to keep it looking consistent.

So if you want to change the title style, you’re going to have to modify your theme style.

By: Salvatore

Salvatore — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:38:40 +0000

Thanks, thanks, thanks for this plugin!
It works very well. The only proplem is the styles button… It not import so much.
A question: can I personalized the title styles of the text? I intend where there is “about me” defoult write.

Thanks again,
Salvatore.