Title: Adding TinyMCE to text widget
Last modified: July 9, 2018

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# Adding TinyMCE to text widget

 *  Resolved [tpgarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tpgarner/)
 * (@tpgarner)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-tinymce-to-text-widget/)
 * Hello,
 * I am using SiteOrigin Page builder so I would love to add the TinyMCE functionality
   to the the text widget so I can adjust my font size/style, etc.
 * I downloaded TinyMCE but it only added the TinyMCE functionality to the normal
   WordPress text editor, not the Text Widget.
 * Is there anyway to add this functionality to the text widget?
 * Thanks,
 * Travis

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 *  [alexgso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexgso/)
 * (@alexgso)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-tinymce-to-text-widget/#post-10476206)
 * Hi Travis,
 * The text widget is a default WordPress widget and it’s intentionally very basic.
   I would recommend using a plugin that adds a dedicated TinyMCE Widget rather 
   than attempting to extend the Text widget directly. The [SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle](https://wordpress.org/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/)
   includes a widget called the SiteOrigin Editor widget which is a full TinyMCE
   Editor (and it can also be extended using TinyMCE Advanced).
 *  Thread Starter [tpgarner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tpgarner/)
 * (@tpgarner)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-tinymce-to-text-widget/#post-10476288)
 * Hello ALexso,
 * Thanks for the advice. I will do that.
 * Cheers,
 * Travis
 *  Plugin Author [Andrew Ozz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaozz/)
 * (@azaozz)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-tinymce-to-text-widget/#post-10575297)
 * Actually the default “text” widget in core uses TinyMCE. It is initialized from
   js so TinyMCE Advanced doesn’t apply any changes to it, but it is possible I’ll
   add settings for it too (at some point in the future) 🙂
 *  [alexgso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexgso/)
 * (@alexgso)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-tinymce-to-text-widget/#post-10577635)
 * Hi Andrew,
 * Oh, you’re right – I feel pretty silly! That’s great to hear and I’m very sorry
   for the misinformation!

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