Enable WYSIWYG editor in plugin

Well, with the help of another post I’ve managed to solve the problem, everything works bar the media upload buttons (any suggestions?):

In your plugin you need to enqueue the following within the admin_print_scripts action:

wp_enqueue_script('post');
if ( user_can_richedit() )
  wp_enqueue_script('editor');
add_thickbox();
wp_enqueue_script('media-upload');
wp_enqueue_script('word-count');

On the page writing your textarea to the page, replace it with the following:

<div id="poststuff">
  <div id="postdivrich">
    <h3><label for="content">Your Label</label></h3>
    <?php the_editor($content, $id = 'content', $prev_id = 'title', $media_buttons = true, $tab_index = 2); ?>
  </div>
</div>

The parameters for the_editor are:

$content – content to echo into the textarea
$id – id to give the textarea element
$prev_id – not sure what this is, I used an empty string
$media_buttons – set to false because they don’t work in my implementation
$tab_index – not sure again, but default value works

I hope this is of some use ??

NOTE: If you do not specify ‘content’ as your textarea ID, it will not get initialised correctly!

I have been having problems getting this to work. I am using WP 2.6.2. I have added a theme page in order to create a page to manage a static table on my website. The theme page addition works fine. What I’m having problems with is getting the WYSIWYG editor to appear — only the HTML editor will come up. When I click on “Visual” nothing happens. Here is the code I’m using:

wp_enqueue_script('post');
	if ( user_can_richedit() ) { wp_enqueue_script('editor'); }
	add_thickbox();
	wp_enqueue_script('media-upload');
	wp_enqueue_script('word-count');

	?>

	<div class="wrap">

<div id="postdivrich" class="postarea">
		<h2>Front Content Settings</h2>
		<form method="post">
		<h3><label for="content">Edit Front Content</label></h3>
		<?php the_editor($updated_value, $id = 'content', $prev_id = 'title', $media_buttons = true, $tab_index = 2); ?>
		<p><div class="submit"><input type="submit" name="save_front_content_options" value="<?php _e('Save Options', 'save_youtuber_options') ?>"  style="font-weight:bold;" /></div></p>
       </form>
</div>

The function user_can_richedit() returns true.

Can anybody see what I need to do in order to get the “Visual” editor working correctly?

Thanks,
Ryan

@rhughes2270,

Hi. The process posted above works great for me in 2.6.2. Here;s the exact code I used:

add_action( 'init', 'my_plugin_init' );
function my_plugin_init() {
		wp_enqueue_script( 'word-count' );
		wp_enqueue_script('post');
		if ( user_can_richedit() )
			wp_enqueue_script('editor');
		add_thickbox();
		wp_enqueue_script('media-upload');
}