No Toolbar with “Code Editor”?

  • Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    It is likely that I am missing something, and if so, I am happy to be corrected. I cannot seem to find a toolbar at all if I switch to the “Code Editor” mode. Is this how it is meant to be?

    In the Classic Editor if I click on the “Text Editor” instead of the “Visual Editor” I see buttons up top to do things like adding links, or bullet lists, or making text bold / italicized (not the full kitchen-sink version that comes with TinyMCE, but a basic stripped down version like the one we see atop the textarea when we create a forum support request or review here). But I see no equivalent when I switch to the “Code Editor”.

    If this is intentional this is a severe design shortcoming. My guess is that there is still a sizeable population that uses the “Text Editor” and not the TinyMCE editor, and for them this just adds to the amount of time it takes to write something.

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  • Moderator Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    These have been intentionally removed at this time. The discussion around them can be found at https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/569

    It is unlikely that we will see these introduced before WordPress 5.0 is released, they may be introduced at a later date, but for the most part it’s now labeled as “Code Editor”, instead of “Text”, so I feel we’re setting expectations for that mode a bit higher than previously and users that utilize it may need a bit more knowledge of general markup if they wish to use it directly. (at least this is how I view it and rationalize it as to why we won’t be focusing hard on it before the first release, but as mentioned, this may change in the future)

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