Title: Adding Visual Editor Function to a Plugin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding Visual Editor Function to a Plugin

 *  [harknell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harknell/)
 * (@harknell)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-visual-editor-function-to-a-plugin/)
 * Hi, with the new update to WordPress we’ve moved from tinyMCE 2.x to 3.x. In 
   my plugins I use a relatively simple call to add the tinyMCE editor to my textareas
   for version 2.x of tinyMCE. Now with 3.x none of this works right. Apparently
   tinyMCE changed how you call their plugin, so now I’m having issues with the 
   language variables not being populated correctly in the editor form (it’s showing
   the variable names, not the actual titles for the different editor text), and
   images are receiving incorrect relative links instead of the correct absolute
   links when you try to use the add image button.
 * My old code was:
 *     ```
       <script type="text/javascript" src="../wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce.js"></script>
       	<script type="text/javascript">
       	<!--
       	tinyMCE.init({
       	theme : "advanced",
       	mode : "exact",
       	elements : "awsomnewspost",
       	width : "565",
       	height : "200"
       	});
       	-->
       	</script>
       ```
   
 * where my text entry forms were id=awsomnewspost.
 * I’ve figured out a little bit of how to fix this issue by looking at the tinyMCE
   config file in the js folder of WordPress, but I’m really just shooting in the
   dark and would love to know if there is a tutorial or any documentation on how
   to integrate the new Visual Editor into a plugin (BTW, I am NOT talking about
   adding buttons to the editor, I mean making the editor appear in the admin page
   of a plugin for admin usage to add information–this is useful for my AWSOM News
   Announcement plugin)
 * Thanks!
 * (Oh and also, I did look at their docs at tinyMCE, and that’s how I managed to
   get it to appear again at all, but the above issues are what resulted which makes
   me think that there are a ton of things that need to be added to the javascript
   code or init code to get this to work right in WordPress again)

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