How to use rich media with TinyMCE

by Franklin Kingma — last modified Jul 03, 2010 05:52 PM
A brief description on how to setup plone and TinyMCE to be able to use rich media

Purpose

TinyMCE does provide an "insert richmedia" dialog which is disabled by default. Enabling it in the control-panel is not enough. I'll try to explain what steps are to be taken.

Prerequisities

This how-to assumes you have your plone 3.x site setup and you can make change to the configuration through the plone control panel.

Step by step

First thing, go to your plone controlpanel and choose TinyMCE from the Add-on Product Configuration section.

 

Click the Toolbar tab

TinyMCE Control Panel tabs

Scroll down and enable 'Insert/edit media'

 

TinyMCE Enable media

Then, go to Site Setup > HTML Filtering

  • Remove "Object" and "Embed" from the "Nasty Tags" list
  • Remove "Object" and "Param" from the "Stripped Tags" list
  • Add "Embed" to the "Custom Tags" list
  • Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click "Save"

Further information

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