I finally found out how to get the wordpress “advanced” editor up.  Did you know that there was more to the default text editor than what you see when you go to write your first post?  I was using the  “Dean’s Tiny MCEditor” plugin, but it has more buttons than I wanted to work with and then there was the fatal flaw.  At least it was for me.  The default wordpress post editor autosaves your posts while you’re writing them.    The Tiny MCEditor either reset the time function to be greater than I liked, or it turned it off.  I’m not sure which, but in any event I hadn’t noticed, so I was not a happy camper when I lost about 300 words from a post I was writing.

I finally found the “on” switch for the “advanced” functions in the default editor.  I had this enabled in a previous blog, but I had forgotten how to get it.  I read an article that said there was a keyboard switch (CTRL+ALT+V), but that didn’t work anymore.  I just couldn’t find anything else about how to do it.  Well, I finally found it.

When I clicked on the button, I got this:

Boy,do I feel dumb.  There’s a little button on the right side that looks like a palate for text color, but it’s not.  It toggles the “advanced” functions on and off.  So now I’m writing with a safety net.  And I like it.

As always, comments are encouraged.