Call TinyMCE in a WordPress plugin

Question

Is there a way to add TinyMCE into my own WordPress plugin?

I have a textarea in my back end script and want to make this area into a TinyMCE WYSIWYG editable field. Is there a way to do that?

This code does not work for me:

<?php     wp_tiny_mce(false,array("editor_selector" => "test")); ?> <textarea class="test" id="test" name="test"></textarea> 

It shows the javascript error

f is undefined 

Firebug screenshot:

This didn't work either:

<textarea class="theEditor" id="videogalerie-add_description" name="videogalerie-add_description"></textarea> 

Answer 1

This is much easier to do in WordPress 3.3 using the wp_editor() function.

I'm working on a plugin that will add a TinyMCE instance to a theme options page. Here's what it looks like:

// Add TinyMCE visual editor wp_editor( $content, $id ); 

Where $content is the stored content and $id is the name of the field. Options can also be passed to customize the TinyMCE functionality, check out the WordPress Codex for more details.

Answer 2

Camden already answered this, but in case somebody needs the full code... Be sure to hook in admin_head, hooking into admin_enqueue_scripts will cause it to load before other scripts, such as jQuery, so it will not work.

add_action("admin_head","load_custom_wp_tiny_mce"); function load_custom_wp_tiny_mce() {  if (function_exists('wp_tiny_mce')) {    add_filter('teeny_mce_before_init', create_function('$a', '     $a["theme"] = "advanced";     $a["skin"] = "wp_theme";     $a["height"] = "200";     $a["width"] = "800";     $a["onpageload"] = "";     $a["mode"] = "exact";     $a["elements"] = "intro";     $a["editor_selector"] = "mceEditor";     $a["plugins"] = "safari,inlinepopups,spellchecker";      $a["forced_root_block"] = false;     $a["force_br_newlines"] = true;     $a["force_p_newlines"] = false;     $a["convert_newlines_to_brs"] = true;      return $a;'));   wp_tiny_mce(true); }   } 

Then somewhere in your template insert a regular textarea:

<textarea id="intro"></textarea>