Rich Text in Random Text
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I chose Random Text out of all the testimonial widget plugins I looked at due to its simplicity. It doesn’t have a bunch of features that neither I nor my customers need or want. It is lacking one thing, though. I wanted my customers to be able to include formatted text without having to write any HTML, so I poked around in the code and came up with a simple solution that I’m sharing here in case anyone else would like to use it.
I edited the randomtext_admin.php file to replace the editable textarea with the WordPress TinyMCE editor and add a filter so that the HTML doesn’t show in the excerpt in the list of entries.
To add the TinyMCE editor find the PHP function randomtext_edit and replace the entire PHP statement that begins with
echo ‘<form method=”post”
with the code at
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=uJTifunF
I added the “array (‘wpautop’ => false)” option because I didn’t want the editor to remove any markup I added in the HTML editor, but you can take it out if you prefer.
To prevent the HTML tags from showing in the excerpts find the PHP function randomtext_list. Scroll down to the foreach loop at bottom of the function and replace the statement
$bytes = strlen($row->text);
with the statement
$bytes = strlen($row->text = strip_tags ( $row->text ));
That’s it! I’ve been using the modified version for a while now with no problems. YMMV. Use at your own risk.
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