TinyMCE and TinyMCE Advanced Professsional Formats and Styles

FAQ

Installation Instructions

1. Upload the Plugin to your wp-content/plugins/ folder
2. Activate the Plugin
3. Go to Settings -> TinyMCE Prof. Styles
4. Follow the instructions on the screen – write your CSS and create your custom formats

Important: Some Settings of TinyMCE or certain TinyMCE Plugins require you to do some manual settings for the Plugin to work. The Plugin WILL work, if you act correctly. Check FAQ for more.

I cannot edit editor-style.css and editor-style-shared.css. What is wrong?

Probably the Plugin was not able to create these files, as there was some prolems with your server settings. Please create these files inside the directory of your Theme manually and make sure the read/write access is set to 777.

I have edited the files editor-style.css and editor-style-shared.css, but my visual editor is not styled. What is the problem?

1. You should empty the cache of your Web Browser, this is often the reason for the styles to be applied with some delay.
2. Check this with simple styles like body { background-color:black; } to see if it basically works.
3. Maybe there are some functions inside of your Theme / other Plugin, which overwrite the settings of this Plugin. Please check this out as it seems to work in most cases.

The file editor-style.css is not working in the frontend of my website, but it is applied to the backend editor. Why?

Make sure that your Theme calls the function wp_head(); inside the header of your template.

I have created styles, but I do not see the styles dropdown. Is something broken?

• If you are using TinyMCE Basic Plugin, be sure that the second row of your TinyMCE is visible. You can usually show / hide this row by clicking a button in the right-top row of Tinymce Standard.
• If you are using TinyMCE Advanced (or similar), make sure to add the Dropdown called “Styles” on the “Tinymce Advanced” Settings Page. I try to add the styles dropdown automatically inside of this Plugin, but it will not work in every case, as it may be overwritten.

I have created some custom formats/styles, I can see the dropdown, but the formats/styles which I have created on the settings Page just do not work. What is wrong?

You have to be careful, when creating custom styles/formats if you are doing it for the first time. If you make a row with a HTML blockquote element and you choose “Inline” from the radio buttons, this style will NOT work, as blockquote is not an HTML inline element.

Try something easy like:
– Name: My red text
– Type: inline
– Type value: span
– CSS style: color / #f00

Check if this style is working. If it works, think about other style. They will only work if you use correct semantics.