Call TinyMCE in a WordPress plugin

Question

Is there a way to add TinyMCE into my own WordPress plugin?

I have a textarea in my back end script and want to make this area into a TinyMCE WYSIWYG editable field.

Answer 1

The following example works for me. Just make sure to use the id of the textarea you want to select in the $a["elements"] variable.

Assuming you have a textarea with the id of 'intro':

// attach the tiny mce editor to this textarea
if (function_exists('wp_tiny_mce')) {

  add_filter('teeny_mce_before_init', create_function('$a', '
    $a["theme"] = "advanced";
    $a["skin"] = "wp_theme";
    $a["height"] = "200";
    $a["width"] = "800";
    $a["onpageload"] = "";
    $a["mode"] = "exact";
    $a["elements"] = "intro";
    $a["editor_selector"] = "mceEditor";
    $a["plugins"] = "safari,inlinepopups,spellchecker";

    $a["forced_root_block"] = false;
    $a["force_br_newlines"] = true;
    $a["force_p_newlines"] = false;
    $a["convert_newlines_to_brs"] = true;

    return $a;'));

 wp_tiny_mce(true);
}

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