Limited functionality on page edit

  • jsbark

    (@jsbark)


    11 years, 10 months ago

    I’m a new user and I’m adding pages to my newly created website. However, there is very little functionality on the “edit” function of “add a new page”. I can make something Bold or Italic and I can align it left or right, and add a list, etc but there is no “paragraph” function to allow me to change the size of the font or its color. If I go into the text and add <H1> or any other html command it doesn’t get accepted and just defaults back to the basic template settings. I’m looking at a YouTube video on WordPress and it shows much more functionality than I have. Am I missing something?

    Thanks

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  • vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    [rant on]
    WordPress eliminated a lot of functionality in the latest version of the TinyMCE editor. In their (technically correct) view, the other controls were allowing users to mix styling with content.

    What they forgot is that the vast majority (I would guess over 90%) of WP users have very limited skill at coding HTML and CSS to get their documents to appear the way they want them. A WYSIWYG editor would be greeted warmly by that community even if it violated ‘proper’ technique.
    [rant off]

    Couple of suggestions:

    1. The CKEditor plugin has a much better array of tools for editing. My only reservation is that it sometimes conflicts with other plugins.
    2. The TinyMCE Advanced plugin will let you add back some of the abandoned buttons and let you arrange them in a more logical fashion.
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