Title: WYSIWYG Comments with Trix Editor
Author: jwz
Published: <strong>June 2, 2022</strong>
Last modified: July 30, 2025

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# WYSIWYG Comments with Trix Editor

 By [jwz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jwz/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wysiwyg-comments-trix.1.5.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysiwyg-comments-trix/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysiwyg-comments-trix/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysiwyg-comments-trix/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysiwyg-comments-trix/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wysiwyg-comments-trix/)

## Description

This replaces the WordPress comment submission form with a WYSIWYG rich-text editor.
It includes a toolbar for bold, italic, links, embeds, blockquotes, code, and lists.

The editor used is [Trix](https://trix-editor.org/), written by Sam Stephenson and
Javan Makhmali for Basecamp. This WordPress integration is by Jamie Zawinski.

## Screenshots

[⌊The rich-text comment edit field.⌉⌊The rich-text comment edit field.⌉[

The rich-text comment edit field.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `wysiwyg-comments-trix` directory to your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
 3. Select the “Settings / Discussion” page to adjust the color scheme.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“WYSIWYG Comments with Trix Editor” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ jwz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jwz/)

[Translate “WYSIWYG Comments with Trix Editor” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wysiwyg-comments-trix)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wysiwyg-comments-trix/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wysiwyg-comments-trix/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wysiwyg-comments-trix/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wysiwyg-comments-trix/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Created

#### 1.1

 * Reject comments that appear to have been typed using raw HTML. The elderly will
   get used to the new way eventually.

#### 1.2

 * Updated to Trix 2.0.10.
 * Avoid race condition when initializing comment-reply JavaScript.
 * Added a special case to make embedding Giphy images work.

#### 1.4

 * Oops, I forgot to include the CSS file in the distribution.

#### 1.5

 * Recent Firefox was spuriously triggering the “you are typing raw HTML” warning.
 * Ensure that Light Theme has a white background for the textarea.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5**
 *  Last updated **11 months ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 * Tags
 * [comments](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[html](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/html/)
   [rich text](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rich-text/)[wysiwyg](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wysiwyg/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysiwyg-comments-trix/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ jwz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jwz/)

## Support

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