{"id":72890,"date":"2012-02-27T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=72890"},"modified":"2012-02-26T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T00:00:12","slug":"show-the-wordpress-kitchen-sink-options-on-the-editor-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/show-the-wordpress-kitchen-sink-options-on-the-editor-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"Show the WordPress Kitchen Sink Options on the Editor by Default"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIf you have clients who use WordPress, or you have users on a site or a network that you control, then as the go-to person for all their questions, no doubt you\u2019ve answered a fair share by starting with, \u201cNow at the top of editor screen, all the way over to the right, there\u2019s a funny looking button that looks like \u2026 well, I don\u2019t what it what it looks like, but it\u2019s the last button on the right. Do you see that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course you\u2019re trying to get them to the \u201ckitchen sink,\u201d the second row of options on the editor that lets them do very important things like put in headings, underlines, colors, get to the Microsoft Word button (a BIG one), etc.<\/p>\n

All these options are pretty self-explanatory, but many users don\u2019t know this row of options exists. If they did, they wouldn\u2019t have to bother you.<\/p>\n

Show the Kitchen Sink by Default<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If you would like to show that second row of options by default, there\u2019s an easy way. Simply put the following into your theme\u2019s functions.php file (Appearance > Edit > Theme Functions \u2013 functions.php<\/strong>):<\/p>\n

function unhide_kitchensink( $args ) {\r\n$args['wordpress_adv_hidden'] = false;\r\nreturn $args;\r\n}\r\nadd_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'unhide_kitchensink' );<\/pre>\n
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If you would like to make this into a simple little plugin, then see this post about making your own personal plugins from function file code<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Photo: Modern Kitchen – Happy Woman Washing Dishes<\/a> from BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Automatically display the second row of options on the WordPress editor for clients and users. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":72892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2186],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-72890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-wordpress-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198026,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72890\/revisions\/198026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72890"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=72890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}