Update: Plugin Released
Update 2: (October 2007) WordPress 2.3 shows this button by default. No fancy shortcuts or plugins necessary 
Recently upgraded to WordPress 2.1 and pondering the WYSIWYG editor? Did you know there are more options there than what you first see? Me neither! But, thanks to “codeispoetry” in this support thread, I do now.
Go from this:
to this:
Just hit alt-shift-v (Firefox) or alt-v (IE) to toggle it.
(Not seeing either of those? Visit Users → Your Profile and make sure that “Use the visual editor when writing” is checked. Still having problems? Visit the WordPress support forums.)
Pasting from word processors just became a whole lot easier. Two of the new buttons are “Paste as Plain Text” and “Paste from Word.” Nice for those who use such things. I like the custom character thing too. Now I can easily add ∞ whenever I need it…
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Thanks for sharing this! I hope you don’t mind but I’ve linked to the post over at the .com forum as it’s something that comes up fairly regularly.
I am sold on WordPress. I am in the process of changing from Blogger to WordPress now. Those upgrades look nice.
Collin – No problem.
TechSay – Enjoy.
Thanks for stopping by guys.
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Ctrl-V (or even Ctrl-Shift-V) seems to do the trick on a Mac, using Camino and Firefox.
Too bad coz I don’t use the visual editor. But thanks for sharing anyways.
Gunnar – Thanks for passing that along and stopping by.
Jaypee – Well, thanks for thanking me then.
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Just a heads up – this doesn’t work when using the Advanced WYSIWYG Editor plugin.
Wordpress 2.1 tiene una barra extra y lo venimos a saber ahora…
¿Sabían que cuando están escribiendo un post, si tocan alt + v (internet explorer) o alt + shift +v (firefox) aparece una barra extra?
Pues si, miren esto.
Antes de usar alt +v
Después de usarlo
Wordpress 2.1 nos da, cada vez, más sorpresa…
Well funny, because on the left side it says “Open Close Advanced Toolbar (alt-b). Guess that doesn’t work?
Wayde – Good point. This only applies to the “Visual Rich Editor” as shipped with WP 2.1 (aka Tiny MCE)
Dazzer – the funny part is that button is part of the Advanced toolbar. So if the advanced bar isn’t showing, you can’t toggle it to show it! Oops.
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@Chris – The Advanced WYSIWYG Editor plugin just enables hidden TinyMCE buttons. It saves you hacking the core files.
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Hi Skilf – I haven’t figured it out for Opera either. Yet.
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Is there anyway to have these advanced icons appear by default if using the visual editor? Anyone know?
Hi Mike, follow the “this support thread” link in the article. There’s been some recent discussion of “hacks” to make ‘em always appear.
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Ctrl+v on Mac
Doch was geändert…
Manchmal sind die neuen Features gut versteckt.
Chris Kasten hat in den Tiefen des Wordpress-Forums entdeckt, dass der WYSIWYG-Editor eine zweite Buttonzeile hat.
Umschalten geht im Firefox mit Alt+Shift+V oder im IE mit Alt+V (nicht getestet).
Dafür …
If you want all the buttons to show all the time just delete the ‘wp_adv_start’ and ‘wp_adv_end’ on line 30-31 of the same file.
Win/Opera users should use Shift+Esc+V to view the additional editor toolbar. Basically, it’s just [Browser Accesskey Command]+V.
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I’m not crazy about the visual editor. It messes up things when I’m in need of executing php in posts and pages via the exec php.
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@Xof – How’d you manage to get such a huge mybloglog icon? Wow!
@Skilf – Thanks for passing that along for the “core” hackers.
@Aja – now that’s good to know!
@Nan – Yep, for stuff like that you want to disable it. The vre is better than it was, but it still won’t make everyone happy, for sure.
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Thanks for the tip! I’ve been using 2.1 for the past week and I haven’t heard of those “hidden features” of the WYSIWYG editor up until now.
Thanks for the neat little plugin too.
Howdy Wojtek, glad you liked it
I have confirmed that this works in Firefox, and that it doesn’t work in Opera.
Somewhat useful trick. In other versions of TinyMCE (like the one in Mambo/Joomla), these and more options are displayed by default, so it’s not much new to me.
Somewhere in this pile of comments, there’s the keys for Opera too. Or, you could just use the plugin that shows the toggle.
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Hello I am going crazy trying to track down where I can find the plug in that you are using called “share this” If you could please drop me a little email message or post it on your blog I would be so grateful!!
Jayson
Hi Jayson – You can find it at alexking.org
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For Mac Firefox use control-v
There is a button to show this toolbar. It’s just (stupidly) hidden on the extra toolbar itself.
You can fix this though. Edit the wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php file. Find the line up at the top that starts with:
$mce_buttons = apply_filters(‘mce_buttons’, array(‘bold’,…
Look through that line and find this bit.:
‘wp_adv_start’, ‘wp_adv’, ’separator’
Change that to this instead:
‘wp_adv’, ‘wp_adv_start’
The button now appears on the normal toolbar. Clicking it toggles the advanced toolbar on or off.
Future revisions of Wordpress will likely include this fix.
Hi Otto – that’s largely what this plugin does. Shuffles things around a bit to have the button always show.
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Well I never! You learn something new everyday! Thanks so much for pointing this out!
Great post, I made sure to include this on my list of WordPress Most Innovative Plugins List
Alex
@Jo – Glad you like it!
@Alex – Thank you kindly. That’s quite a list.
Great ,I just do it
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Thanks zillion times!!!
Wow this is great for all of us bloggers. I wonder why it’s hidden with some stupid key stroke. Going to start using this right away. thanks so much
Hi guys
Be sure to read the hilited text (in orange) at the beginning of the article!
Does Wordpress have a JCE Editor plug-in? I changed from TinyMCE and FCK Editor on my Joomla! installation to JCE and it’s just 100times more user friendly than those two…
There’s a ton of features in TinyMCE that can be implimented in the WP editor. From tables (10 button features) to CSS layout and layers to text formatting. Font format, family, size, color, background color, sub/super script, etc. Almost all are in the form of TinyMCE plugins.
And how can I install the extra-functions of TinyMCE on WP, particularly for tables management ?