Loading Visual editor in Add Event screen

[Chris]

Hi there Elmalak,
I’m one of the developers here at Modern Tribe.
First off, I’d like to thank you for your patience with this issue.

So, to your issue we go,

So Community Events does use the regular wp_editor that the backend uses. So you may be wondering, why does say the Viper Plugin’s buttons not show up on the frontend? It’s a very good question actually. So theoretically, actually, when you register a button as a developer to go on the editor, it will go on the editor anywhere.

So in the case of Viper, for instance, he decided to limit those icons to only show on certain pages, specifically the screen where you can make a new post, or the screen where you can edit a post.

This logic, found in Viper’s plugin, looks like this:

if ( in_array( basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), apply_filters( 'vvq_editor_pages', array('post-new.php', 'page-new.php', 'post.php', 'page.php') ) ) ) {
// His code for adding the functions to display the button are here
}

Now that conditional will never return as true for a frontend editor. So even though he used a system to add his button everywhere, and Tribe used the standard editor, his buttons will only appear in the backend.

So the same thing is happening with your plugin. After spending a bit of time trying to figure out the plugin you were using, I tracked down the same style of code in that one as well:

add_action('admin_init', 'gmap_add_buttons');
function gmap_add_buttons() {
// Don't bother doing this stuff if the current user lacks permissions
if( !current_user_can('edit_posts') && !current_user_can('edit_pages') )
return;

// Add only in Rich Editor mode
if( get_user_option('rich_editing') == 'true') {
add_filter('mce_external_plugins', 'add_gmap_script');
add_filter('mce_buttons', 'add_gmap_button');
}
}

the admin_init function only runs when you are in the backend of WordPress, so off the bat, this isn’t going to load those buttons on the frontend, since you’d need to hook onto an action that fires on the frontend.
Further, notice the capability check. He’s only loading the buttons if the user is able to both edit posts and pages. So unless your user role has those permissions via a custom role or an editor or administrator role, you won’t see them either.

This same cap check is done on every function related to those buttons, from display to saving.

So to summarize, Events Calendar is using the standard WordPress editor, but the two plugins (the GPX one and the example Viper one) both use code that explicitly prevents them from loading for your users.

I would suggest talking to that plugins author about changing his code so you can use it on the frontend.

-Chris

[elmalak]

Hi Chris.
Thank you for your detailed and informative reply to my issue.
That definitely makes more sense and I can see now what you mean.

I will go ahead and contact the plugin author and hope he responds positively.

Much appreciated.
Elmalak

[Casey]

Great! I’m glad that Chris was able to explain this better than I was and get you the information you were looking for.

Since it sounds like you’re all set with this, I’m going to go ahead and close out this thread. Please feel free to start a new thread if you have further issues.

Thanks so much!

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