Advanced Wordpress Formatting
March 1, 2007 · → 11 Comments
Did you know that there was an advanced formating toolbar in Wordpress 2.1? (Based on the hits I’ve had on a previous post about how to turn on the wysiwyg editor a lot of people were in code mode after the switch to WP2.1)
Until earlier this morning I didn’t either, until I was reading over at Solo Technology and the ever helpful Chris Kasten had a post on the advanced toolbar.
Before the visual toolbar in Wordpress looked like this :
But with a quick press of keys it looks like this!
The key combinations to make this magic happen are :
Windows users : alt-shift-v (Firefox) or alt-v (Internet Explorer)
Mac Users : ctrl-v
I’m fine messing with the code button but this added functionality provides some great options including the option to “paste as plain text” or “paste from word”. I use a plain text editor when I write posts outside WP but there are many clients, colleagues and friends who still like good old Word as their word cruncher. I know that they will love this function.
The ability to insert a custom character will also be a boon to those people who have acutes or other such characters as part of their names (my friend and client Káren Wallace will love this one).
And if you love colourful posts then the option to choose a font colour (from a basic pallette of 40 colours) without having to specify a hex code will also come in handy.
So go have fun! And when it comes round to Easter in a couple of weeks you can say that you got your easter egg early.
[tags]Wordpress, advanced formating toolbar, easier blogging, paste from Word, wysiwyg[/tags]
Hey thanks for the mention.
Just released today: A plugin to make toggling it even easier.
My pleasure thanks for the heads-up! And that plug-in will be going in here shortly
ahhh… I sense you’re selling me on the idea of converting to Wordpress… it certainly sounds like you’ve done a lot of the learning so us non-techies can slip right in there…
I guess being able to put my acute in is a plus…
thanks Leah!
Thank you… it took me a while to work out how to turn my wysiwyg back on. I’m off to try the advance toolbar.
Nice idea. However, when I did the crtl-V exercise, I did not get the more advanced menu. What I did get was that now I can’t type into the editing screen. Never mind, there’s Firefox and I can compose there – just won’t be tempting fate by trying the same thing there.
Follow up on my previous comment. I shut the computer down overnight and today re-opened the site in IE7. Everything worked – the advanced editing tools came up and I was able to type into the editing section. Mystery.
Good to hear that all is OK Des! Sometimes, even with the best of intentions, our computer systems do not live up to our expectations. I learnt over 2 decades ago that this is an imperfect science that we work with
This is great… I got the plug-in instead, and it works like a charm.
My favorite part is that you can choose h1, h2, etc. in the visual editor, without having to bounce over into code view.
Thanks for the sweet find.
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I’m running Firefox in Linux (kubuntu) and I found that pressing Shift-Alt-V (in that order) does the trick.
Thanks for the grand tip, I’m just new to wordpress.