Installing the WYSIWYG Module
First of all, we're going to install a WYSIWYG module that will allow Drupal to install a range of different editors.
- Step 1: Click hereto download the latest version of "WYSIWYG". Choose the top link under "Recommended releases".
- Step 2: Extract the files into a folder on your desktop. The folder will be called "wysiwyg"
- Step 3: Login to your site's files via FTP and navigate to /sites/all/. If there isn't a folder called /modules/ here, create one.
- Step 4: Upload the "wysiwyg" folder to /sites/all/modules/
- Step 5: Go to Administer >> Site building >> Modules. Check the box next to "Wysiwyg" and click Save Configuration.
- Step 6: Go to Administer >> Site configuration >> Wysiwyg and you should see a screen with several suggested editors. One option is TinyMCE and that is the example we will use:
Installing TinyMCE
Now we're going to install the TinyMCE editor itself:
- Step 7: Click on the "Download" link or go directly to http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/download.php
- Step 8: Download the latest TinyMCE to your desktop and extract the files. The folder will be called "tinymce 2". Rename this to simply "tinymce"
- Step 9: Login to your site's files via FTP and navigate to /sites/all/. If there isn't a folder called /libraries/ here, create one.
- Step 10: Upload the "wysiwyg" folder to /sites/all/libraries/
- Step 11: Go back to Go to Administer >> Site configuration >> Wysiwyg and screen we saw before should now look like this:
- Step 12: Save these settings and now when you go to edit an article, you should see a fully-fledged editor:
