updated with more explanation If you want to build this into your theme – this tutorial for adding some code to functions.php will work. Keep in mind you will have to download TinyMCE and add files to /wp-includes for this to work. That’s because “table management” is a plugin for TinyMCE and doesn’t ship with … Read more
There are multiple options: Use a real table: <table><tr><td> and so on. Use pre-formatted text: <pre>text</pre> Switch to the HTML editor and enter HTML entities or numerical references for preserved white-space:  
Check out this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/preserved-html-editor-markup/ It helps clear up some of the inconsistencies between the two tabs.
You must filter the content inside the editor, if you save the content. Alternativly add a tiny button to add content from MS Word inside the editor area. I think for the usability is it better, if you filter the content from users on save his content. You can use the project WordOff to filter … Read more
Assuming you refer to the WP main editor, you can get the TinyMCE instance with var mainEditor = tinyMCE.getInstanceById(‘content’); then clear the current content with: mainEditor.setContent(”); and add your new content mainEditor.setContent(‘we are the borg lower your shields and surrender your ships’); If the new content doesn’t get saved, call tinyMCE.triggerSave(); additionally.
Remove post type support for the editor: add_action( ‘init’, function() { remove_post_type_support( ‘post’, ‘editor’); } ); Now add a new meta box containing only a textarea // print a new meta box function generic_cb($post) { $content = (!empty($post->post_content)) ? $post->post_content : ”; echo ‘<textarea name=”content”>’.$content.'</textarea>’; } function add_before_editor($post) { global $post; add_meta_box( ‘generic_box’, // id, … Read more
manage_options is an admin role so I’d still try and changing it even if you’ve changed the roles elsewhere. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Editor for more info. Try the following: add_options_page(‘Orbisius Simple Notice’, ‘Orbisius Simple Notice’, ‘edit_others_posts’, __FILE__, ‘orbisius_simple_notice_options_page’);
Built in spell checker was always a bad idea especially since it relies on external services that might not support the actual language you are writing in. In addition those services might have changed their API since the days of 3.3.1 in a way that is no longer compatible with the 3.3.1 code. Or am … Read more
This should do the trick: remove_filter(‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’); remove_filter(‘the_content’, ‘wptexturize’);
I am not sure if that is built in, but you can try adding something like this to your functions.php function set_publisher( $new_status, $old_status, $post ) { $publisher_id = get_current_user_id(); if ( $new_status == ‘publish’ && $publisher_id > 0) { update_post_meta($post->ID, ‘post_publisher’, $publisher_id); } } add_action( ‘transition_post_status’, ‘set_publisher’, 10, 3 ); And then when you … Read more