enable TinyMCE for comment forms

Question

Is there any way in Wordpress to use a richt-text-editor (preferable the build in TinyMCE) on the comment form textarea in the frontend? I had such a feature in earlier versions, using the plugin "TinyMCEComment", but that one is not developed any further and is broken on 3.x versions. I've tried all related plugins on a Wordpress 3.4 installation, none of them is working (e.g. can't insert links, missing labels, …).

I also tried several ways of creating a plugin to enable the RTE for comments, like adding the the JS code manually. My last approach looked like:

function commentTinyMCE() {

    wp_editor( '', 'comment', array(
        'media_buttons' => false,
        'teeny' => true,
    ) );

}

/* hook into WordPress */
add_action('wp_footer', 'commentTinyMCE' );

As of what I could say after debugging is, that the function wp_editor does nothing.

Right now it seems to me, that is it impossible to integrate a useful, working RTE into the comment forms. Quicktags above the form is not what my customers are after.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use the StackOverflow Editor for Comments, using the WP Markdown Plugin.

If you want another one, try TinyMCEComments or something like that. Didn't test this Plugin - but should work fine.

Answer 2

I have successfully implemented a front-end posting system using TinyMCE called with wp_editor. Here is a pastebin of the page template if it's at all helpful to you: http://pastebin.com/0ePiqvsL