Title: Limited functionality on page edit
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Limited functionality on page edit

 *  [jsbark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsbark/)
 * (@jsbark)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limited-functionality-on-page-edit/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limited-functionality-on-page-edit/#post-5148927)
 * [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](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ckeditor-for-wordpress/) 
       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](http://wordpress.org/plugins/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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## Tags

 * [edit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/edit/)
 * [functions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/functions/)
 * [paragraph](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/paragraph/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limited-functionality-on-page-edit/#post-5148927)
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