Support comments @ Admin

  • tdechangy

    (@tdechangy)


    6 years, 12 months ago

    Hi there,

    thanks for your great job.
    After using TinyMCE Advanced for the posts edits I see that it’s sadly missing in the comments section in the admin area. Of course all settings are set to use TinyMCE in all admin areas.

    Is there any chance to see this coming soon since this of high interest for clients… ?

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 12 months ago by tdechangy.
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  • ftpwp

    (@ftpwp)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    @tdechangy why only the admin area?
    I’m also surprised there’s nothing for comments, but not only for the admin area, also for the front-end, at the bottom of the articles.

    @azaozz, any chance we can get at least a selection of enhancements for comments?

    I guess not all are relevant but in between nothing (there’s currently not a single button when we write a comment, no emoticons, no bold, nothing) and everything TinyMCE Advanced can offer (including tables), maybe a good compromise could be to do a selection of what’s realistic and then let the admin personalize the final selection of buttons.
    Maybe a 3rd tab in the settings… Comments? 🙂

    Plugin Author Andrew Ozz

    (@azaozz)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    (the visual editor is) missing in the comments section in the admin area

    Generally comments support a very limited number of tags. It’s true that users with “unfiltered html” capability can “do whatever they want” including adding complex HTML in comments. That may get problematic on the front-end as the themes usually don’t expect the extra markup.

    There are plugins that add the TinyMCE editor on the front-end, with limited buttons/capabilities. This is possible to do but… it is a lot of js to load on every page load, and the benefits are not that big.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by Andrew Ozz.
    Thread Starter tdechangy

    (@tdechangy)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Andrew, thanks for your feedback. You’re absolutely right in your technical points. However, while soon in 2020 I’m impressed to see such 1990’s styled text editors.
    What I think here is that website owners and developers should have the ability to chose on their own if they want those additional options on the comments > front- and back-end.

    In fact to answer your good technical points, I would say that a tinyMCE on the comments should ONLY include most basic formatting as – text decoration : bold, italic.., probably lists (quite useful in the end!), and smileys (it’s the 21’th century or not!?).

    With this said it could and should(!) be a neat and minimalistic as well as useful added value – probably with less JS as options are removed. Site manager will finally enjoy a neat and modern interface while site visitors will enjoy richer content formatting.

    Hoping you’ll be able to take it in account for the users who will enjoy such an option.

    Best 😀

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by tdechangy.
    Plugin Author Andrew Ozz

    (@azaozz)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    I would say that a tinyMCE on the comments should ONLY include most basic formatting

    Right. It’s possible to add TinyMCE to the comments screen in wp-admin, and configure it to only have few buttons. That would make it better when users that moderate comments reply from the “Comments” screen. There may be plugins that do this already.

    Not so sure it’s a good idea to add to the front-end. TinyMCE loads a lot of JS and CSS. Enabling it to just use few buttons seems like an overkill and will slow down page load. However I’m sure there are plugins that to this too 🙂

    Thread Starter tdechangy

    (@tdechangy)

    6 years, 10 months ago

    Please can you clarify :

    Right. It’s possible to add TinyMCE to the comments screen in wp-admin, and configure it to only have few buttons.

    You say that it’s possible… Do you mean that the option exists or that you could build it up ?

    + I didn’t find any plgin that enables the TinyMCE on the Admin side.

    As sais before, for either front- or backend comments :

    What I think here is that website owners and developers should have the ability to chose on their own if they want those additional options on the comments > front- and back-end.

    And this shouldn’t need any additional plugin which makes it even heavier. I hope that enabling TinyMCE could be done with fewer JS for all comments sections to enable most basic options.

    Hope to read your willingness to incorporate this in a lightweight manner for the modern web experience we should expect.

    Regards.

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