Want to have the Post editor remembering the last editing position

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As you probably know the WordPress theme editor remembers its last editing position, but I want my post editor to do the same (it jumps to the top if you save a post/page)…. Any tips/hacks how to resolve this ? Help with this is very much appreciated !!

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  1. Are you referring to the Visual or the HTML editor or both?

    According to jQuery Set Cursor Position in Text Area it is possible to set the cursor position for a textarea element. That is good news, as AFAIK the WordPress HTML editor is using a textarea element.

    The WordPress Visual editor in difference is based on TinyMCE. TinyMCE does not support a cursor position natively (I assume this only, and it’s only backed this up by a first, quick googling ). So this is not possible out of the box.

    But there are some resources that offer a method of how to do that with TinyMCE.

    I think you could add a javascript that does the following:

    1. On loading of the post editor, check if a cookie exists for the postId.
    2. If so, set the cursor position. If not, do nothing.
    3. Then set a flag that cursor capturing is enabled.
    4. While cursor capturing is enabled, On each keypress set a cookie for the postId and the cursor position.

    Done.

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