HTML button in TinyMCE missing in WP 2.1

Thanks, Steve, that did the job.

Found it! stevejohnson, if you’re still listening, this is what you have to do:

Open wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php in an editor and go to the line that starts “$mce_buttons = apply_filters(‘mce_buttons'”. You’ll see the list of buttons on the toolbar in there. After “‘wp_help’,” add “‘code’,”. Reload and you should see the button.

Special bonus: I found a bug in there which is unrelated to this but still interesting. The button “wp_adv” toggles the “advanced” toolbar. The contents of the advanced tool bar are kept in between “wp_adv_start” and “wp_adv_end”. But in that file, “wp_adv” is *after* “wp_adv_start”. This means that the button to display the advanced toolbar is *on* the advanced toolbar! So there’s no way to turn it on, apparently. If you swap “wp_adv” and “wp_adv_start” in that same file, you’ll discover a whole bunch of new neat stuff.

You realize the “HTML” button you just added is the same as clicking the “Code” tab while on the post editor?

As for the advanced toolbar: Just hit alt-shift-v (Firefox) or alt-v (IE) to toggle it.

The CODE strips out some of the HTML when you write a post in the visual tab, so it’s not really the same. I installed upgraded 2.1.1 on an office WP installation yesterday and the HTML button was there in the visual editor next to the HELP button. But today when I upgraded to 2.1.1 for a different install, there is no HTML button.

Also, do you know what the toggle keystrokes for the advanced toolbar are on a Mac?

I’ve cleaned out my cache, edited the tiny_mce_config.php file per Sluggo’s suggestion, deactivated plugins, but I still can’t seem to get the HTML button to appear. I know that it’s supposed to be there… Any ideas?

I had the same problem w/wp2.1. I looked through the source code and I found that wp loaded ‘quicktags’ toolbar by default instead of ‘wp_tiny_mce’ toolbar.

You can find this code uder /wp-includes/general-template.php. At line 823, you may see

<div id="quicktags">
	<?php wp_print_scripts( 'quicktags' ); ?>
	<script type="text/javascript">edToolbar()</script>
	</div>

To make tinymce working, change
<?php wp_print_scripts( 'quicktags' ); ?>
to
<?php wp_print_scripts( 'tiny_mce' ); ?>
and delete
<script type="text/javascript">edToolbar()</script>
line.

With this change of code, you can see tinymce toolbar at least, but for some reason, you cannot see advanced tool bars (at the current version, 2.1.2, of wordpress). To make it work, I followed the instruction of sluggo.

Go to /wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php file.
At line 32, you can see
$mce_buttons = apply_filters('mce_buttons', array('bold', 'italic', 'strikethrough', 'separator', 'bullist', 'numlist', 'outdent', 'indent', 'separator', 'justifyleft', 'justifycenter', 'justifyright', 'separator', 'link', 'unlink', 'image', 'wp_more', 'separator', 'spellchecker', 'separator', 'wp_help', 'wp_adv_start', 'wp_adv', 'separator', 'formatselect', 'underline', 'justifyfull', 'forecolor', 'separator', 'pastetext', 'pasteword', 'separator', 'removeformat', 'cleanup', 'separator', 'charmap', 'separator', 'undo', 'redo', 'wp_adv_end'));

Change the order of
'wp_adv_start', 'wp_adv'
to
'wp_adv', 'wp_adv_start'

Now Tinymce works with advanced toolbar w/o using other plugins!

There’s two possible ways to overcome this TinyMCE problem. One is enable javascript in firefox settings (sory i don’t use IE) and two, upload the all tinymce files/folders and overide the old ones. More info and instructions go to http://www.romicozone.com