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[Lukas Kotatko Company: Magnetic Sponsoring Contribution Level: 2]

does anybody know about a wordpress plugin which is able to further the function for writing a post. i mean, id like for example to do a simple text box or highlight text and so on. If somebody knows about a plugin which can do this, id be gratefull for the tip. thank for all the comments

[willie robertson Contribution Level: 4]

Hi Lukas,

Not sure if this is what you are asking for, but I have found it to be a great WP plugin.

Basically it works like a MS word processor/editor.

TinyMCE Advanced wp plugin

Willie

[Kerry Thomas Contribution Level: 2]

does anybody know about a wordpress plugin which is able to further the function for writing a post. i mean, id like for example to do a simple text box or highlight text and so on. If somebody knows about a plugin which can do this, id be gratefull for the tip. thank for all the comments

Hello Lucas, I'm sure exactly what you are trying to do, but you can go to the HTML tab in the upper right hand side of the visual editor in Wordpress and enter html code to add textboxs, etc.

If you need to highlight (change the background color of the text, then you should be able to do that with inline style rules from the HTML tab.)

Copy the code snippet below into the HTML editor for the post and you should see an example of how to highlight text. You'll just need to set your background color and your font color.

Example code to do a whole paragraph:

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<p style="background: blue; color: white;">A blue background and white font color with inline CSS</p>

Example code to do a section or span of a sentence:

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<span style="background: blue; color: red;">text you want to highlight goes here</span>

Please note that there are more advanced ways to style your postings, and these are just some easy code snippets to let you do highlighting, etc.

If you need more help please let me know. Kerry

[Ilka Flood Company: Isagenix Corporation Contribution Level: 4]

Hi Lukas,

I use TinyMCE Advanced like Willie, and it's a great plugin with many features. Among them tables, and you can also highlight text. You can customize and drag and drop the features you like. It's pretty cool!

[Lukas Kotatko Company: Magnetic Sponsoring Contribution Level: 2]

cool, thank you very much"

[Cenay Nailor Company: Nussentials Contribution Level: 2]

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I used themes that contain shortcodes built in, but if you are a theme that doesn't contain them, this is how you can add them.

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[Matt Alston Company: Magnetic Sponsoring Contribution Level: 2]

I have created wordpress blogs for a broad range of users and I find this problem comes up over and over.

I found it very easy to just let clients write their blog post in Microsoft WORD because many times they were very familiar with doing that already. The good news is that you can PUBLISH to a post just like you do Save-as from inside WORD 2003 and above.

That formating tool is available to people and does not require a plug-in at all. There is an icon in the basic wordpress editor for importing from WORD also.

For those that know HTML you have two editors in Wordpess one is the VISUAL where it types text, the other tab is HTML where you can enter code. You can mix the two to create any effect supported by HTML and CSS. I like using the full page version of the visual editor bast as it does not keep sending the cursor to the top of the text box.

This has been a user friendly and practicle solution for many of my clients as they began to write for their blogs.

I hope that helps.

[Bobby Freiler Company: YourNetBiz Contribution Level: 1]

Like Matt Alston, I use Word for the most part. It is easily customizable and you can import directly into Wordpress.

However, the TinyMCE advanced plug in does work well. The difference is whether you generate your posts within Wordpress or if you compose in a word processor and then import/paste them in the dashboard.

I keep a "cheat sheet" of HTML inline codes near my computer so if I need to do something specific, I simply switch to the HTML editor, make the change and go back to the visual editor for tweaks and to make sure my code is correct.

Good luck!

[Matt Alston Company: Magnetic Sponsoring Contribution Level: 2]

Hey Bobby,

Nice additional view point.

The one thing about the word press editor that drives me crazy is the fact that it resets the cursor to the top left of the frame each time you move the cursor out of the input box. When you have a long multi-line post this is MADDENING when working inside the HTML editor panel to make small edits.

In visual you can click the icon up to "full screen" and everything stays put but you can not chanhe HTML code from there.

I often jump in and add small bits of HTML into a post if it is short and simple. But I find I prefer to produce my HTML code in an external editor with all the Features and then copy and paste the finished HTML code into html view.

I have individual files for each post saved in my editor program and can easily open a post source file, make a modification, and often use this technique for versions of the Landing Pages, and offer pages. It supports spell check and some other useful features as well.

When writing posts they are usually all different but when creating landing pages, and offer pages there is often a significant similarity with just changes to about 1/3 of the text to focus on new keywords. In this way having external files is a huge time saver for me.

It is all a matter of preference and the tools you are familiar with because each technique can produce the end result needed.

For that reason I found that since most of my web design clients were familiar with WORD I just showed them how to work in that system for posts to their site. I was important they had the confidence to use it or they would not get any of their own content on the site.