wp_editor on custom meta textarea field - images and html fails

Question

So I have made some custom textareas on my frontpage template. This works fine and I can safe content and so on... But I am experiencing some issues.

When I click "Upload/Insert" I can work with the dialogue - but when I type insert the dialogue closes but no image is inserted into the textarea...

The other issue is with the to tabs "visuel" and "HTML". I cant click on the "HTML" tab... nothing happens... I get the following javascript error:

vta is null
anonymous()
anonymous()
onclick()
event = click clientX=1523, clientY=145
qtrans_save(vta.value);

I call the wp_editor with:

wp_editor( $meta, $field['id']);

The field ID's are unique and currently using _ like 'custom_frontpage_textarea3'. I have tried without the _ but that had no effect.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Not saying it's not possible, but wp_editor is not designed to be used in a meta box (when tinyMCE, which is on by default, is activated). Here's the trac ticket where some of the issues are discussed.

You can however, use the actions edit_page_form or edit_form_advanced to add your editor with tinyMCE, as suggested by azzoz, or, use the HTML only editor, as suggested by nacin.

Edit: Here's an example of adding the editor with tinyMCE disabled:

wp_editor( $meta, $field['id'], array ( 'tinymce' => false ) );

I tested it by adding 2 editors and was able to insert media into each editor using the insert into post button. If you can do without tinyMCE, then this is probably the way to go. Otherwise, you'll need to add your editors using the hooks mentioned above.