Title: Creating a Plugin to Replace Quicktags
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Creating a Plugin to Replace Quicktags

 *  [zer0ruth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zer0ruth/)
 * (@zer0ruth)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-plugin-to-replace-quicktags/)
 * I wanted to add a new quick tag to the html editor when i’m posting an article.
   I was able to easily add the button by going into “wp-includes/js/quicktags.js”
   and adding
 *     ```
       edButtons[edButtons.length] =
       new edButton('ed_audio'
       ,'audio'
       ,''
       ,'</a>'
       ,'z'
       ); // special case
       ```
   
 * This adds a new button called “audio” and with some other javascript code, it
   does everything I want.
 * My question is, does anyone know how I could create a plugin to do this. I think
   it is generally a bad idea to edit the core wordpress files for a bunch of reasons(
   including that I will have to modify the quicktags.js file every time a new version
   of wordpress comes out) so i was hoping that I could get the same result with
   a plugin.
 * Is this possible?

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