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for watching
In this video I'll show you how to add
the underline and justified text
buttons back into your WordPress text
editor these buttons were removed from
the post editor in the WordPress 4.7
update and this video has helped several
others
add their buttons back since the update
after watching you will have two methods
to choose from and I'll show you why I
like method two best so if you're ready
let's get started we'll be working with
plugins so we need to head over to our
admin dashboard you can go to your admin
section by typing in admin at the end of
your website and from the login page you
want to type in your username and
password actually going to maximize the
screen so we have a little bit more
screen for you to see
so first I want to show you what I'm
talking about
if you head over to a post add new
you'll see our text editor area and I'm
going to click on the toolbar toggle so
that you can see all of them and we used
to have a justify area and an underline
area over here and now that's missing so
we need to get that back and to do that
you wanna head over to our plugins area
we'll click add new and we'll be using one
of two methods
The first method involves adding a
plug-in called the readd text underline
and justify plug-in you want to look
through that and this is the one that we
want so we want to install that now,
takes a second to install when it's done
we also need to activate it like you see
here. Once you see it here we need to set
it up so we'll go under our settings area, head
over down to writing and we have a new
editor style area there
three options to look at the default is
without it so that's how it is now after
4.7 has been released with wordpress you
can just re-add the underline and justify
buttons or you can re-add them but also
rearrange where they are
I'll just click re-add and you'll want to
make sure that you click save changes
Now that that is all back in place we
can go back to our post click add new
again
and whereas before we were missing the
underline and justify you see that these
are back in the same spot so that was
method 1 and like I said in the
beginning of the video we have actually
two methods to show you and I'll show
you why the next one is my favorite.
So I'm going to go back over to the plugins
section I want to remove the first one
because we'll be installing another
plug-in so I'll deactivate that and then delete it
the next method involves adding the tiny
MCE advanced plugin and the reason why I
like this is because it allows you to
extend and enhance your WordPress visual
editor so you can move all of these
buttons around and really format it and
use your most favorite buttons and hide
the ones that you don't ever use so
you're really able to make your
WordPress blog post more efficient in
writing and in customizing it and
formatting it so we want to install the
tiny MCE advanced plugins so let's head
back over to our dashboard
let's go over to add new plugins and
let's look for the tinyMCE advanced
and you see here its a very popular
plugin so we'll be using that one
let's go ahead and install that plug-in
and like with the other one once its
installed we need to activate it.
Now once it's activated let's go into
settings and take a look at it here is
where you can add and remove unused
buttons down here and you can put them
wherever you want
there's actually when you're done you
can actually have four rows if you want
let's put this drag it up where we want
it for the underlying same thing with
the justify put it there and this is a
drag-and-drop so I'm left-clicking and
dragging the items up and moving them
around and then letting go of the click
and then letting go of the mouse button
when I have it where I want it you also
have all these other unused buttons that
you can choose from.
Scrolling further down you have a few
more options you can choose from and
some advanced options to deal with.
Now that I'm happy with the settings I'll
click Save Changes and we can go and
create a new post and again we see the
underlying and justify are back and now
you can justify your text or underline
any words or phrases that you want and
now you're back in business if you liked
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you're justified and underline buttons
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