Paul Bain » Wordpress http://www.paulbain.com Web Specialist Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:54:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Inserting Default Content into the Wordpress Visual Editor http://www.paulbain.com/articles/inserting-default-content-into-wordpress-visual-editor/ http://www.paulbain.com/articles/inserting-default-content-into-wordpress-visual-editor/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:20:25 +0000 Paul http://www.paulbain.com/?p=112 I’ve been working on a Wordpress layout which needs two columns of user editable content per page. There are many ways you could do this with Wordpress, however to make it as easy as possible for the content editors I though it would be easier if the visual editor had some default layout information inserted when creating a post.

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I knew there must be an easy way to do this using the action API in Wordpress and I came across this article by WPRecipies which suggests putting the following code in the functions.php of your theme:

add_filter( 'default_content', 'my_editor_content' );
function my_editor_content( $content ) {
$content = "If you enjoyed this post, make sure to subscribe to my rss feed.";
return $content;
}

I inserted a couple of divs for the columns into mine so I also wanted to add some basic styling to the editor. I know this probably isn’t the best way and I’m sure someone will correct me, but I just added the style to the end of the TinyMCE stylesheet which can be found here in /wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/wp_theme/content.css

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