Howdy all. With bootstrap now becoming all the rage I am wanting to create two plugins for Moodle's tinyMCE editor. A bootstrap based skin and a bootstrap styling plugin.
Is there a way I can create these as Moodle plugins that could be installed without editing core?
Julian
The answer is Yes:
Julian,
what kind of tinymce plugins are you planning? What should they do?
If you are just planning to change tinymce skins or skin variants it does not require new plugins (or changes to core code).
Download or create a new tinymce (bootstrap) skin - see for example https://github.com/gtraxx/tinymce-skin-bootstrap or attached file and unzip/move it to lib/editor/tinymce/tiny_mce/version_of_tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/
You can activate this skin from site administration in moodle 2.5:
Add to Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > TinyMCE HTML editor > General settings > Custom configuration
{"skin" : "bootstrap"}
and press Save changes
(supposing you don't want to edit any core files)
Mauno, you pick my interest correctly. I was wanting to take that skin and apply it to Moodle. Was just starting investigations and was seeing what needed to be done to get it to irk in Moodle. If it is this simple then I am ecstatic. Will contact the original author for permission (or see if they will submit it themselves) to the plugins DB for use in Moodle Bootstrap sites.
The other plugin I was wanting to adapt for Moodle was http://wordpress.org/plugins/bootstrap-mce-elements/ which allows users to easily add Bootstrap elements into their pages.
Julian
Hi Julian
You could possibly use the TinyMCE templates plugin to add in bootstrap templates. See the discussion at https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-38742 which talks a little about the possibility of a templates plugin.
Richard