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WordPress Web Application Development

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
Book Image

WordPress Web Application Development

By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
WordPress Web Application Development Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction to the post editor


The WordPress post editor provides amazing features to edit the content of your site. It's improving with every version and now we have come to a stage where we are considering the frontend direct content editing. The default post editor provides lots of built-in items to format your content using HTML tags. Also, we use the post editor for adding shortcodes to content through buttons.

Using the WordPress editor

In web applications, we usually need to use text areas to get descriptive information from the user. In such scenarios, we just put the default HTML textarea field or use a comprehensive editor such as TinyMCE. Adding and configuring this types of editor usually takes a lot of time. In WordPress, we have the ability to use a built-in editor anywhere you wish. Normally, we see it as the post/page editor. However, we can use it on both the frontend and backend of the application by just including the wp_editor function. This will create a nice content...