WordPress and Widget using TinyMCE

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I have written a Text/HTML widget that uses TinyMCE to allow some basic formatting. However, when I save the changes, the data in the textarea is not getting posted. If I use just a simple textarea without TinyMCE then I can save the data properly. Any ideas?

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  1. I’ve experienced this issue recently as well. Just solved it, actually. 🙂

    If you write a PHP function to include your tinyMCE code and run the Javascript init, you can include that in admin_head 

    add_action( 'admin_print_scripts-widgets.php', 'NAME OF YOUR INIT FUNCTION HERE' );

    Currently I’ve also go the following in my init function. although I’m not certain it’s needed in this context:

    wp_enqueue_script( 'editor' );
wp_enqueue_script( 'editor_functions' );
wp_enqueue_script( 'quicktags' );

    Hope this helps. 🙂

  2. Does it post at all? Do a 

    <?php print_r($_REQUEST); ?>

    on the page its posting to, and see if value is is being passed. 99% of the time its a typing error, perhaps the textarea name is wrong.