Instead of pasting into the Visual editor, switch to the html editor for pasting any kind of html, or using shortcodes. I’d recommend checking the “disable the visual editor” checkbox in your user profile. Then install Mark Jaquith’s Markdown on Save plugin for more readable formatting without the wysiwyg pitfalls.
The code used on wordpress.org to render readme files is here: class Markdown. You can download the class and the dependencies, then you should be able to set up a simple custom reader. If you want to see it as close as possible to the actual page, you can download/checkout per SVN the theme from … Read more
A plugin was the cause of this issue, ‘PS Disable Auto Formatting‘. After disabling this plugin, the issue was fixed.
when one of my clients have doesn’t like the TinyMCE editor i add the Dean’s FCKEditor For WordPress plugin that integrates the ckeditor and install the office 2003 skin for it so they find it easier to use.
Solved it… In my functions.php I should have put: array( ‘title’ => ‘Hidden Element’, ‘inline’ => ‘span’, ‘classes’ => ‘hiddenElement’, ‘wrapper’ => false, ), not array( ‘title’ => ‘Hidden Element’, ‘block’ => ‘span’, ‘classes’ => ‘hiddenElement’, ‘wrapper’ => false, ), as here: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-custom-styles-to-wordpress-visual-editor/
Note This answer was originally included in @bitstarr‘s question above and was included as a separate answer here to comply with WPSE’s Q&A model. Maybe someone else will have this issue and so i will share my solution here with you folks. function make_mce_awesome( $init ) { /* There are easier things than make ‘left/center/right … Read more
The WYSIWYG uses the .wp-editor-container class. So the easiest way would be to change this in your CSS. If your style is being overwritten then just add !important. .wp-editor-container { width:50%; // What ever size you want } the wp_editor() function also allows us to add a class to the textarea tag, I’m not sure … Read more
I finally found a plugin that did just what I wanted – a button for in the WYSIWYG editor: WYSIWYG Inline Code Command
WP runs so many prettifying filters on this stuff that it’s easy to get lost. Here is what I ended up with: remove_filter(‘comment_text’, ‘make_clickable’, 9); add_filter(‘pre_comment_content’, ‘strip_comment_links’); function strip_comment_links($content) { global $allowedtags; $tags = $allowedtags; unset($tags[‘a’]); $content = addslashes(wp_kses(stripslashes($content), $tags)); return $content; } This scrubs out clearly defined links and removes filter that turns plain … Read more
There is a button on the visual text editor built in to WordPress that will strip Microsoft Word formating. It is labeled “Paste From Word”