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Add A WYSIWYG Comment Editor To WordPress With MCEComments

View Comments May 23, 2008 | Everton

Leaving comments on WordPress out of the box isn’t very user friendly, and although it can be made easier with use of editing and quicktag plugins, what  WordPress really needs is a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) comment editor.

I’ve just installed a WordPress WYSIWYG comment editor called MCEComments and I think it should make it very easier for readers to leave comments.  not only does it allow you to see in real-time what you’ve entered removing the need for a comment preview plugin, but it also adds a lot of new functionality to the toolbar that is customisable in the WordPress admin console.  It does all this by using the internal TinyMCE library bundled with WordPress 2.0 and up.

mcecomments Add A WYSIWYG Comment Editor To WordPress With MCEComments

The following buttons can be added to the MCEComments toolbar:

  • separator, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, justifyleft, justifycenter, justifyright, justifyfull, bullist, numlist, outdent, indent, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, link, unlink, cleanup, help, code, hr, removeformat, sub, sup, forecolor, backcolor, charmap, visualaid, blockquote, spellchecker and fullscreen

I haven’t added all of these functions as my toolbar isn’t wide enough, and I’m not sure if I need that many options.

MCEComments also allows users to resize the comment form; invaluable if you are leaving a new comment.

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About Everton: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day. View posts.

  • Additionally

    forced_root_block : ''

    has to be changed to

    forced_root_block : 'p'

    too.
  • I've had the same problem with not working blockquote-button.

    After I changed tinyMCEComments.php from

    $res .= 'force_p_newlines : false,'.$le;
    $res .= 'force_br_newlines : true,'.$le;

    to

    $res .= 'force_p_newlines : true,'.$le;
    $res .= 'force_br_newlines : false,'.$le;


    blockquote is working.
    I do not undestand internals of tinyMCE, but it seems, that blockquote and indent is only working inside of several elements (like , ).

    It would be nice, if someone with more understanding could comment on this.
  • miso
    Me again...

    Just got notified someone made a comment here and just wanted to say that I still haven't found a solution to this. I'm running 2.7.1 now as well.

    Maybe someday :)
  • miso
    I cannot for the life of me get the blockquote button to actually make text blockquote. Everything else works, but can't blockquote.

    What's the solution? I've even tried to blockquote the above text here and although you can click the blockquote button, nothing happens. It has no effect on the text.

    Help please. Would love for this to work.  :)
  • Same trouble... :( Anyone know, how to fix blockquote in MCEComments?

    Wordpress 2.7.1
  • Quicktags stopped working for me altogether after I upgraded to WP 2.5. There's a bunch of code from Nicedit that puts the visual editor onto your comments box with just a cut and paste. Problem for me there was that the "submit comment" box disappeared.Kind of ironic that we're going through so much frustration and strain just so our bloggers can yell at us in bold type.
  • Marylain
    Well yes, sure thing, I'm just waiting for MZ's reply. Strange thing is that even the preview box doesn't work so my problem is not because of a specified theme. ;_;
  • @Marylain


    If you do find out why the plugin doesn't display can share what you did please, as I've had that problem in the past with themes and I'd love to know what the cause is.
  • Marylain
    I also tried to download and install the older version but I still have this problem.I noticed that I'm not able to let work any kind of plugin that add buttons on editor box (including QuickTags...)
  • I went for an older version of the plugin and it works without any issues. Way fewer options that way, but it's a temporary fix, anyway. I'll be waiting to hear if you have any luck with the developer.
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