That is a very good question. I just tested your code locally and see the same result. A little digging reveals a twp-part problem. wp-includes/class-wp-editor.php is a good read for TinyMCE customizations WordPress 3.9 did update to TinyMCE 4.0 and the TinyMCE docs imply that the superscript button is now called “superscript” and not just … Read more
The first thing to do is to select the active editor. Here we select the editor using its id, which is content. var activeEditor = tinyMCE.get(‘content’); Then we use tinyMCE’s setContent: var activeEditor = tinyMCE.get(‘content’); var content=”HTML or plain text content here…”; activeEditor.setContent(content); However, if the editor is in text mode to begin with, after … Read more
You can use a {$taxonomy}_edit_form_fields action hook to add html to the term edit table. In that HTML you can remove description textarea and add tinymce editor add_action(“{$taxonomy}_edit_form_fields”, ‘add_form_fields_example’, 10, 2); function add_form_fields_example($term, $taxonomy){ ?> <tr valign=”top”> <th scope=”row”>Description</th> <td> <?php wp_editor(html_entity_decode($term->description), ‘description’, array(‘media_buttons’ => false)); ?> <script> jQuery(window).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘label[for=description]’).parent().parent().remove(); }); </script> </td> </tr> <?php … Read more
I have done extended research and found the answer – I am now using a hook on ‘tiny_mce_before_init’. Based on other answers (special thanks to answer #2 @Chip Bennett), I have used the following code in my functions.php to secure the paragraph breaks (in the editor HTML mode they show as   but become paragraphs … Read more
Try this: replace ‘theme_advanced_disable’ => ‘fullscreen’ with ‘toolbar1’=> ‘bold,italic,underline,bullist,numlist,link,unlink,forecolor,undo,redo’ Also, remove ‘teeny’ => true,
From the comments, problems seems to be related to some plugin misbehaving.
I found a very helpful blog post which shows exactly how to accomplish what I am after with only three small changes to the user-edit.php page. First Change I had to add a class name to the <textarea> tag for the description. <textarea name=”description” id=”description” rows=”5″ cols=”30″ class=”CLASS_NAME_HERE”><?php echo esc_html($profileuser->description); ?> </textarea><br /> Second Change … Read more
Adding scripts after TinyMCE: You might check out the before_wp_tiny_mce and after_wp_tiny_mcehooks. If you take a look at the file /wp-includes/class-wp-editor.php you can see that the TinyMCE settings scripts are not all loaded through the usual enqueue methods, but some are displayed via: add_action( ‘admin_print_footer_scripts’, array( __CLASS__, ‘editor_js’), 50 ); where the editor_js method contains … Read more
Add this to your plugin file: (you can also add it on the theme’s functions file) function ajax_wp_editor() { ?> your html form here <?php } //for all users add_action(‘wp_ajax_nopriv_ajax_wp_editor’, ‘ajax_wp_editor’); // for logged in users add_action(‘wp_ajax_ajax_wp_editor’, ‘ajax_wp_editor’); Request Ajax using this URL: [BLOG_ADDRESS]/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=ajax_wp_editor
wp_more – insert more button, spellchecker – spellchecker button I’ve tried it with your code on WP 3.5.1 and it worked fine for me.