Starting with 3.2, the WordPress HTML editor has become MonoSpaced. Yay! Problem is that it looks best on a non-Windows PC, so someone of my friends who happen to be Windows users have the grumpy.
I made an htmleditor.php file and tossed it into my mu-plugins folder. You can use the folder in single and multisite WordPress, and it makes any php files in there act similar to your functions.php. I find it preferable since you don’t have to port to a new theme, should you change it. Read What is the MU-PLUGINS folder? if you need more help.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: HTML Editor
Plugin URI: http://halfelf.org/hacks/wordpress-html-editor-font/
Description: I don't like the HTML editor Font on Windows
Version: 1.0
Author: MA Epstein
Author URI: http://ipstenu.org/
*/
function html_editor_admin() {
?>
<style type="text/css">#content #editor, #editorcontainer #content, #editorcontainer textarea#content, #editorcontainer textarea, div#postdivrich.postarea #editorcontainer textarea#content { font: normal 13px/1.5 verdana !important; }</style>
<?php }
add_action('admin_head', 'html_editor_admin');
?>
You can obviously change font: normal 12px/1.5 Monaco, monospace !important; to whatever you like.
Enjoy!
As far as I know, the first font in the stack is Consolas, a very nice Microsoft font they ship starting with Vista. So it’s just your Windows friends running 10-year-old operating systems like XP that might have an issue, but that should be it.
Welcome to the hell that is corporate America
We’ve defeated IE 6 (kind of) and XP is next to go, but there is a lot of proprietary software for banking (not to pick a random example) that are incapable of running on Vista, let alone 7.
Or anyone who doesn’t care for monospaced fonts. I prefer Verdana, which is what I see now, using Windows7, on my 3.1.3 installs. I’ll use this to switch all of my 3.2 installs to use Verdana as well.
Thanks! I’m using Verdana happily now.
BTW, I’m using Safari/Mac, and the monospaced font was superugly.