Laura’s Blog

WordPress.org does a decent job of providing text editing buttons. But I’ve always longed for a button that lets me add a table… or one that lets me easily highlight words… or even one that lets me add one of those goofy emoticons. 🙄

Problem solved. Enter TinyMCE Advanced, a nifty WordPress plugin that helps you do all of the above, and more.

1. To install the plugin, click “Plugins” in your WordPress.org dashboard.
2. Click “Add New.”
3. Search for TinyMCE Advanced.
4. Click “install.” Activate the plugin.
5. Then go to “Settings” in your dashboard and click TinyMCE Advanced.
6. Drag and drop buttons you want into your toolbar.

This plugin also lets you create extra spaces between paragraphs in a blog article (WordPress normally wipes out extra hard returns automatically).

At the bottom of the plugin settings, click the button that says, “Stop removing the <p> and <br/> tags when saving and show them in the HTML editor.”

This will allow you to create custom paragraph spacing…

like…

…this!