[Eric W]

I’ve gotten a request from one of our staff to have the “link” button (which shows on the forum) appear on the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor for Group Docs and for Wiki Docs.  I did some checking – the buttons is actually there but on those types of documents, it appears to be specifically removed.  I can add/customize other buttons and they appear in the Wiki/Group Docs editors, but  even though it is supposed to be showing, the link button is missing from both Wiki and Group Docs.  I’m not talking about a wplink button, I’m talking about the generic hyperlink button.  .  Is there any particular reason why wiki pages or group docs can’t have the hyperlink button like the forum editor does?  Those are documents which certainly will have hyperlinks in them, and our staff want to use the WYSIWYG editor as opposed to the text editor.

I attempted to embed an image but if that didn’t work, here’s a link to the button row.  I took this from the CBOX demo site to show that it’s not specific to our site.

http://imgur.com/O1T21As

Does anyone have any insight on a temp fix for this?  Can this be a bug-fix or feature request in a future release?

Thanks,

-Eric

 

 

[Scott Voth]

Hi Eric  @willo1ej –

I just took a look at my test site – at a group doc – and saw that the link icons (link & unlink) are there.  See the toolbar screenshot below.  Is it possible that some of your customization might have somehow caused it.  I know that the icons are greyed out until you high-light a word or phrase.  But it is strange that you are not able to access those.

[Eric W]

@scottvoth Interesting Scott.  I checked to make sure it wasn’t specific to just my sites by testing the demo site at demo.commonsinabox.org.  Is also has the missing link buttons on the wiki editor and group docs as well.  I took the original screenshot from the demo site because the toolbar looks exactly as it does on my site.

I’m on WP 3.9 and have the latest version of CBOX installed.

• This reply was modified 11 years ago by Eric W.

[Scott Voth]

Hi Eric  @willo1ej –

I think our demo site is actually not running the most recent version of CBOX.  Is it possible that your site has not upgraded to the newest version of the theme and the plugins?

[Eric W]

@scottvoth We do have the latest theme and plugins and still were missing those buttons.  I ended up needing to use the TinyMCE advanced plugin and had to check a specific checkbox which says “Link (replaces the Insert/Edit Link Dialog)”.  The buttons work now but seem to have a few more options than the standard link buttons.  I’m really curious as to why we are missing them natively, so I might try and get the distribution directly from GIT in case any of our files are somehow not actually updated.

-Eric

[Michael Culligan]

I am having the same issue as Eric.  The link buttons that are visible in Scott’s image above do not appear when I create/edit wiki pages on the sitewide wiki using the visual editor.

I was able to replicate the issue on the demo site wiki – which is also missing those links when I try to create/edit pages.

Does anyone have ideas that don’t involve the TinyMCE advanced plugin?

I am on WP3.9 and Commons in a Box 1.0.7

 

-Mike

[Michael Culligan]

@eric w – I applied your fix and the links are now appearing.  Thanks for the advice and instructions on the tinyMCE advanced plugin.  The link buttons are now appearing.

[Kalico]

So glad I stumbled on this thread! I had the same problem, and had posted it in the plugin page at WordPress.org — but the TinyMCE Advanced plugin solved it. And added some other cool new features. 🙂

Posted a link to this article on WordPress.org.

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