Title: [Plugin: TinyMCE Advanced] Import/Export Settings
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: TinyMCE Advanced] Import/Export Settings

 *  [darinroman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drome22/)
 * (@drome22)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tinymce-advanced-importexport-settings/)
 * I absolutely love this plugin and use it on every client website. Along with 
   a proper editor-style.css file in my themes I can have the page/post editor mimic
   the front-end styles, eliminating the need to preview a page or post numerous
   times to get things looking right. Sure that can be done anyway, but with TinyMCE
   Advanced I can also add commonly used classes to the editor-style.css file, such
   as theme specific colors or fancy image frames, etc., and have them available
   in the drop down menu for easy application to the content. This greatly improves
   the rendered HTML markup eliminating all of those unnecessary inline span styles.
   Also, users no longer need to remember hex color codes or other complicated combinations
   to achieve typical results. Just highlight the text and apply the class!
 * My only complaint is not having an export/import of settings for the button layout.
   It’s truly time consuming and a pain in the @$$ to have to recreate my preferred
   button layout for every website.
 * Please add an export/import settings function to make this plugin even better.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/)

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 *  Thread Starter [darinroman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drome22/)
 * (@drome22)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tinymce-advanced-importexport-settings/#post-2986782)
 * Without an export/import settings option in the plugin; the only way I was able
   to accomplish this was to copy the data from the database of an existing installation
   with the desired options and toolbars layout.
 * **How to do it:**
    Open the _wp\_options_ table of the database on the WordPress
   installation that already has TinyMCE Advanced setup the way you’d like it, and
   search for the _option\_name_ ‘tadv_options’ and ‘tadv_toolbars’. Highlight and
   copy the _option\_value_ for each of these and paste them into the same database
   table of the new installation.
 * _I keep these option values in a text file on my computer for easy copying and
   pasting to each new installation._
 *  [carrierawks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carrierawks/)
 * (@carrierawks)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-tinymce-advanced-importexport-settings/#post-2986786)
 * Yes having a import/export option would be nice. Thanks for the tips on getting
   the backup of the settings. 🙂

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