WYSIWYG Text Widget

WYSIWYG Text Widget
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Spruce up your sidebar with this WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) widget. We’ve taken the fancy editor you know and love from the “Write Post” screen and added it to the text widget. This means you can add colors, links, and even images to your sidebar without knowing code.

How to use the plugin

  1. Download the plugin and unzip it on your computer
  2. Upload the wysiwyg-text-widget folder to your WordPress plugins directory
  3. Go to the “Plugins” section in your WordPress admin panel and look through the list for “WYSIWYG Text Widget” (it’s usually near the bottom)
  4. Activate the “WYSIWYG Text Widget”
  5. Go to the “Appearance” section and the “Widgets” sub-section; if all went well, you now have a “WYSIWYG Text 1″ widget
  6. Use the widget or create more at the bottom of the “Widgets” screen as you like

Get help

If you need help customizing this plugin to suit your specific needs, by all means, contact us for a quote. If you find a bug or need general assistance, please post on the WordPress forum.

If you find this plugin useful, please consider sending a small donation (you choose how much!) via PayPal.

Known issues

  • The plugin doesn’t work (on the admin end) in Google Chrome
  • The widget is a bit odd in Firefox. There’s sometimes an intermediate page that shows when you edit a widget, and you might have to click the “Visual” link to see the editor buttons. I’d like to fix these things but don’t have time at the moment (new baby = no time!).

History

  • 2009-02-03
    Updated with fixes from the fine folks at Healthcare Jobs that make the plugin work with WordPress 2.5-2.7
  • 2008-02-11
    Fixed bug that caused other widgets’ text fields to be WYSIWYG’d
  • 2008-02-05
    Initial release
 
 
Comments
1.
On June 26th, 2008 at 1:41 pm, Hans said:

One of the best, if it only worked on 2.5.x

2.
On June 28th, 2008 at 2:17 am, kai said:

please update this absolutly nice plugin for 2.5 an mu wordpress !!!!!!
thanks a lot

3.
On June 30th, 2008 at 6:43 am, Jeph said:

This would be the best plugin for WordPress if it worked in 2.5+. Any idea when you’ll have time to update it?

4.
On June 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pm, dnnsldr said:

This looks awesome. I just upgraded MU and it is linked with 2.5. This would be a great tool for those that are using the widgets sidebar so that they can customize their blog without coding. Nice job!

5.
On August 21st, 2008 at 11:03 pm, Paco Delacroix said:

i wonder why i upgrade to the wordpress new version. I am lack of this nice widget.

6.
On September 20th, 2008 at 8:10 am, Dan said:

I have pledged a 25.00 donation for a 2.5 compatible version. Maybe if others follow suit, we can encourage a speedy conversion.

7.
On October 25th, 2008 at 1:13 pm, Jonah said:

I just pledged $50 for the support and hopeful upgrade of this plugin to WP 2.6+

In either case, thanks so much for your work and I look forward to a new version in the future!

- Jonah

8.
On December 19th, 2008 at 3:27 am, kashif said:

Hi

This is exactly what I have been looking for – great idea. I wish it worked with Wordpress 2.7 – any ideas when you are planning on rolling it out?

Keep up the good work!

Kash

9.
On January 5th, 2009 at 9:03 pm, Mike said:

Having trouble with adding more than 1 Text Widget.

As soon as I add a second one (Text Widget 2, 3, 4, etc) my entry will not save, though Text Widget 1 is unchanged and works perfectly.

Has anyone see this problem?

- Mike

10.
On February 11th, 2009 at 7:50 am, WPPR said:

The download button here is broken. Other versions link goes to WP.

11.
On February 11th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, Sarah Lewis said:

@WPPR: Thanks for letting me know. I updated the link and it should work now; let me know if you have any trouble!

12.
On February 19th, 2009 at 1:19 am, Bryan Eggers said:

The problem I have is that it only installs to the sidebar 1, even if you have several. For example, if I switch to Sidebar 4 and install it, it ends up installed on Sidebar 1. This is on 2.7.1 using the Revolution Magazine theme. It works great when on the first sidebar but I don’t need it there. :) Thanks.

13.
On March 1st, 2009 at 6:21 am, rb said:

Seems to do text ok but I can’t seem to add and images. I click on the “add image icon” which then on to media library after selecting the image from library insert into post I am sent to a blank page. Only way back is back arrow. No image is in to post area. Runing WP 2.7.1

14.
On March 14th, 2009 at 9:30 am, Betty said:

It doesn’t work right with WP 2.7.1 – It wouldn’t let me go back in and edit. In fact when I went back in the text was gone leaving only the title. I tried removing the widget and starting over. It wouldn’t let me. The only way I could get rid of it was to uninstall the plugin.

Oh, how I wish it worked!

15.
On March 15th, 2009 at 3:28 pm, Technopreneur said:

There have been problems in 2.7.1

I wish to share what i did to make it work:

i added a few lines to the wysiqyg-text-widget.php

at line ~ 115 in function widget_wys_text_init()

wp_admin_css( ‘thickbox’ );
add_thickbox();
wp_enqueue_script(‘media-upload’);

I hope this works for you guys

16.
On March 19th, 2009 at 2:55 pm, Kyle said:

I added the following to the widget and it was able to display pictures fine.. this is around line 115 of the php file.. just copy and paste this over the old function

function widget_wys_text_init()
{
wp_admin_css( ‘thickbox’ );
add_thickbox();
wp_enqueue_script(‘editor’);
wp_enqueue_script(‘editor_functions’);
wp_enqueue_script(‘quicktags’);
wp_enqueue_script(‘media-upload’);
}

I still cannot add the widget to the right sidebar. It keeps defaulting to the left no matter what… any ideas?

17.
On March 23rd, 2009 at 9:45 am, Surfer said:

Hi, I too downlioaded this fantastic plugin…

Alas, it doesn’t work, BECAUSE:

1- Once you have create a nice piece of text and saved it, youcan’t edit it!!!!!

Actually, if you click on the modify link for this text, your text WILL BE LOST!

And 2 – Image upload doesn’t work.
Worse than that, you will be struck when uploading, having to close session and reconnect!

18.
On March 25th, 2009 at 2:47 pm, Mael said:

Have you seen this topic on wordpress.org : http://wordpress.org/support/topic/242624?replies=4 ?
I hope you’ll upgrade this plugin. Simple ideas make great usable experiences !

19.
On March 25th, 2009 at 4:14 pm, Kristina said:

Sorry, I just read the comments above and thought I should let you know that the same issues of:
1. failure to install in the right sidebar
2. not holding the changes

I am quite a newbie with this, but somewhat computer savvy and I think that something may not be friendly with the text editor in WordPress.

I am having an issue in viewing HTML/Visual in their text editor after plugin became unstable.

Love the plugin…if I could help, I would, but I am not anywhere close to being able to.

Kristina

20.
On April 7th, 2009 at 9:42 am, Jeromy said:

great plugin man – totally broke on 2.7.1, but it’s the only one of it’s kind, thanks for putting it together

21.
On April 10th, 2009 at 12:02 pm, Jonny said:

Wp 2.7 pretty pretty please

22.
On April 10th, 2009 at 12:55 pm, Adam said:

I thought this was exactly what I was looking for – but unfortunately it does not seem to be working correctly.

I can not add it to any sidebar besides sidebar1 in Fire Fox, so I have to use IE for that part.

Then after putting a few lines of text in, if I go back to edit that text it removes all the tags and I am left with one paragraph of text.

Hopefully an update will fix this though soon. Thank for the work you have done though.

23.
On April 30th, 2009 at 6:57 am, Karl said:

Hi and thanks for the plugin!

I’ve also got the issue mentioned above, that I can’t swap over to a different sidebar and add a second widget – it gets added to the first sidebar no matter what.

I’ve also got a problem with missing tags. Adding a list for example, outputs etc., but I seem to be missing standard paragraph tags, so text seems to collapse.

Would be great to see some of these issues fixed, but we’re awaiting our first kid – so I can surely sympathise with the new baby = no time. One has to prioritise!!

24.
On May 19th, 2009 at 11:55 am, Geri Dawson said:

I also cannot add the wysiwyg text widget into widget columns #2 and #3 in Wordpress v2.7.1 Whenever I try it gets added to column #1 instead. Is this a bug? This widget is a good idea…but it does not seem to work in the latest release of Wordpress.

25.
On May 22nd, 2009 at 3:31 am, Robert Neuschul said:

Great idea, would love to use it, but in an absolutely default [new] clean install of 2.7.1 or 2.8 [beta] the widget does not display the default visual editor toolbar; it simply displays a text area with the media links above it.

Adding TinyMCE advanced to the plugins and forcing the WP cache to clear down also makes no difference.

26.
On May 23rd, 2009 at 5:38 am, hafid said:

Great word. Can you tell us how to insert this widget to the sidebar by code not from the admin panel? such as <php if…..

27.
On May 25th, 2009 at 12:08 am, hafid said:

Can I add the WYSIWYG Text to other place not sidebar? how to?

28.
On May 27th, 2009 at 3:39 am, Martin said:

In WP version 2.7.1, using FF 2.0.0.20, the widget cannot be arranged once added to the sidebar. Arranging must be done by arranging all other widgets relative this one. If I try to drag the widget, it will immediately reload the whole page.

29.
On June 28th, 2009 at 3:05 am, Rebecca said:

Amazing plugin! Do you think you’ll be able to update it for 2.8 and firefox. That would be really awesome!!! Thanks again :)

30.
On July 20th, 2009 at 3:27 pm, Andrew said:

Great plugin! Any chance this will work well with Wordpress 2.8 and Firefox anytime soon? It would be greatly appreciated!

31.
On July 25th, 2009 at 9:01 pm, Chris said:

Looked like exactly what I was looking for, but does not work with the current version of Wordpress. Updated Version?

32.
On September 22nd, 2009 at 12:48 am, Chuck said:

I would REALLY love to have this plug-in for WP 2.8 and will pledge $20 toward it when you create it – I’ll donate!

33.
On October 12th, 2009 at 11:20 am, ChuckS said:

This is an awesome plugin. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for me now with the lastest Wordpress. Is there a particular reason it isn’t being upgraded? How much of a donation do you need to upgrade it for all of us who love it and use it so much? I would be happy to raise the money.
Thanks!

34.
On December 10th, 2009 at 7:12 am, Majofa said:

Excellent idea. This is the plugin I have been looking for.
But does not work with 2.8.6
Any update soon?

35.
On February 8th, 2010 at 8:50 am, media. said:

Didn’t work on my WP2.9 :( ( Hope will be updated version!

36.
On April 10th, 2010 at 9:43 am, Phil said:

Still not working with 2.9…bummer

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