Title: Customizing the visual editor?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Customizing the visual editor?

 *  Resolved [markellison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markellison/)
 * (@markellison)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-visual-editor/)
 * Is there any hack or plugin that lets me pre-define text styles in the visual
   editor?
 * As the site builder, I’d like to prepare some bespoke styles so that once I handover
   the site to the content manager, it will be very clear how to reproduce certain
   text styles: simply choose from the styles already there in the drop-down menu.
   These custom styles would have descriptive nicknames that make sense in the context
   of this project. For example, in a site that does tables of contents for magazines,
   instead of “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, and “Heading 3”, the content manager would
   simply choose “Author Name”, “Article Title”, “Slug”.

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 *  [franclin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franclin/)
 * (@franclin)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-visual-editor/#post-1581597)
 * I just posted the same question not three minutes ago. I’ll keep you posted if
   I hear anything.
 *  [franclin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franclin/)
 * (@franclin)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-visual-editor/#post-1581619)
 * I have found this article that shows you how to create new buttons on the admin.
   So far I have managed to create a new button on the HTML editor but not the visual
   editor.
 * [http://jeffc.me/add-buttons-to-visual-editor](http://jeffc.me/add-buttons-to-visual-editor)
 *  [franclin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franclin/)
 * (@franclin)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-visual-editor/#post-1581629)
 * found a plugin to add quicktags. (buttons to the visual editor)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addquicktag/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addquicktag/)
 *  Thread Starter [markellison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markellison/)
 * (@markellison)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-visual-editor/#post-1581789)
 * I managed to get something very close to what I was after. The TinyMCE Advanced
   plugin lets you place a “Styles” dropdown on the visual editor, which displays
   all the CSS classes you’ve defined on your site. This worked well in my current
   project as I had used “human friendly” descriptive names for the CSS. Check it
   out:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/)

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 * Last reply from: [markellison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markellison/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-visual-editor/#post-1581789)
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