Francesco Canovi

Marco Chiesi

Black Studio

<p>This plugin adds a new <code>Visual Editor</code> widget type that allows you to insert rich text and media objects in your sidebars with no hassle. With Black Studio TinyMCE Widget you will be able to edit your widgets in a WYSIWYG manner using the native WordPress TinyMCE editor, just like you do in posts and pages. And if you are a developer you may still switch back and forth from Visual to HTML mode.</p>
<p>For years the default WordPress text widget has been very basic and it required HTML knowledge to add formatting and images/media to the text. This plugin was born in 2011 to overcome these limitations. After a long time, in June 2017, version 4.8 of WordPress finally introduced a new text widget that included the ability to manage text widgets with the visual editor. The new widget available in WordPress core could now be used as a basic replacement of Black Studio TinyMCE Widget, but the plugin still offers some additional features, so it remains a must-have for advanced users.</p>
<h4>Basic Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add rich text widgets to your sidebars and edit them using the TinyMCE visual editor</li>
<li>Switch between Visual mode and HTML mode (including Quicktags toolbar)</li>
<li>Insert images, videos, and other media from WordPress Media Library</li>
<li>Insert links to existing WordPress pages/posts or external resources</li>
<li>Support for shortcodes, smilies and embed in widget text (including preview)</li>
<li>Support for the Block-based Widgets Editor introduced with WordPress 5.8</li>
<li>Support for Customizer with live preview and quick edit</li>
<li>Support for widgets accessibility mode</li>
<li>Compatible with multi-site (WordPress networks)</li>
<li>Compatible with the most common multi-language plugins</li>
<li>Compatible with Page Builder plugin by SiteOrigin</li>
<li>Translations available in 20+ languages</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced Features</h4>
<p>These features are what makes this plugin better than the WordPress (4.8+) native widget:</p>
<ul>
<li>Full featured TinyMCE Visual Editor (the same you have for pages and posts)</li>
<li>Wide text area for an enhanced editing experience</li>
<li>Compatible with 3rd party TinyMCE customization plugins (TinyMCE Advanced, WP Edit, …)</li>
<li>Support for distraction-free (fullscreen) editing mode </li>
<li>Option to “Automatically add paragraphs” to widget text</li>
</ul>
<h4>About the plugin</h4>
<p>The story of the plugin was featured in a talk at WordCamp Europe 2018 in Belgrade.<br />
See the video <a href="https://wordpress.tv/2018/07/11/francesco-canovi-marco-chiesi-once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Once upon a time, there was a plugin…</a> on WordPress.tv.</p>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.blackstudio.it/en/" rel="nofollow ugc">Author’s web site</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.blackstudio.it/en/wordpress-plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin’s page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/black-studio-tinymce-widget" rel="ugc">Support forum</a></li>
<li>Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/blackstudioita" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/blackstudiocomunicazione" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-studio" rel="nofollow ugc">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://github.com/black-studio" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Get involved</h4>
<ul>
<li>Developers can contribute to the source code on our <a href="https://github.com/black-studio/black-studio-tinymce-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</li>
<li>Translators can contribute through the <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Official WordPress Translation platform</a>.</li>
<li>Users can contribute by leaving a 5 stars <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/black-studio-tinymce-widget#postform" rel="ugc">review</a> or making a <a href="https://www.blackstudio.it/en/wordpress-plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/" rel="nofollow ugc">donation</a>.</li>
</ul>


Black Studio TinyMCE Widget

A very convenient plugin if you need some edition tools in widget and you don’t know HTML.

Works fine

Danny van Kooten

ibericode

Harish Chouhan

<h4>WYSIWYG Widgets or rich text widgets</h4>
<p>This plugin adds so called “Widget Blocks” to your website which you can easily display in your widget areas.</p>
<p>You can create or edit the widget blocks just like you would edit any post or page, with all the default WordPress editing functions enabled. This way, you can use the visual editor that comes with WordPress to format your widgets. You can even use media uploading to insert images and so forth.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Create beautiful widgets without having to write HTML code</li>
<li>Easily insert media into your widget content</li>
<li>Add headings, lists, blockquotes and other HTML elements to your widgets using the WordPress visual editor</li>
<li>Use WP Links dialog to easily link to any of your pages or posts from a widget</li>
<li>Use shortcodes inside your widgets</li>
<li>Translation ready</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Translators</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Dutch (nl_NL) – <a href="https://dannyvankooten.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Danny van Kooten</a></li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) – <a href="http://webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Maria Ramos – WebHostingHub</a></li>
<li>Italian (it_IT) – <a href="http://www.dangelos.it/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tiziano D’Angelo – Studio D’Angelo</a></li>
<li>German (de_DE) – <a href="http://atelier.tag-eins.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Christian Günther</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can send <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">gettext PO and MO files</a> to me so that I can bundle it into WYSIWYG Widgets. You can <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wysiwyg-widgets/trunk/languages/wysiwyg-widgets.po" rel="nofollow ugc">download the latest PO file here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>More information</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://dannyvankooten.com/wordpress-plugins/wysiwyg-widgets/" rel="nofollow ugc">WYSIWYG Widgets</a></li>
<li>Other <a href="https://dannyvankooten.com/wordpress-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress plugins</a> by the same author</li>
</ul>


Widget Content Blocks

It does what it says and works well.
Great reusable widgets for multiple sidebars in WordPress.

Works well

This is such a great way to create widget content!

Works Wonderfully!

Edit widget content using the default WordPress visual editor and media uploading functionality. Create widgets like you would create posts or pages.

Black Studio TinyMCE Widget vs Widget Content Blocks