Title: WP Editarea
Author: takien
Published: <strong>February 10, 2010</strong>
Last modified: August 14, 2013

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# WP Editarea

 By [takien](https://profiles.wordpress.org/takien/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-editarea.0.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-editarea/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-editarea/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-editarea/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-editarea/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-editarea/)

## Description

WP Editarea turns your Oldschool textarea code editor in WordPress Dashboard (plugin/
theme editor) into a fancy realtime highlighted code editor using [Editarea](http://www.cdolivet.com/index.php?page=editArea).

#### Plugin Features

 * Automatically detect syntax language
 * Live preview in plugin option page
 * Better than codepress (cPanel also use this)
 * Easy integration, no file to edit
 * Easy to use configuration page

#### Editarea Features

 * Multi language interface
 * Bracket matching highlight
 * Support many syntax
 * Line numbers
 * Toggle word wrap
 * Interactive toolbar
 * Search/replace with regex
 * More at [Editarea homepage](http://www.cdolivet.com/index.php?page=editArea).

#### Browser Compatibility

 * IE 6 & 7 & 8, Firefox 1.5 & 2 & 3, Safari 3.x & 4, Opera 9, 9.5, 9.6 and Chrome
   1 & 2[2] and mostly all modern browsers.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Setting page and live preview.
 * [[
 * Your new theme editor 😀

## Installation

The installation process.

 1. Upload `wp-editarea` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory. Make sure 
    directory structures are not changed. Or Directly upload from your Plugin management
    page.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go to Settings menu and set options you need.

## FAQ

Nothing

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Editarea” is open source software. The following people have contributed to 
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ takien ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/takien/)

[Translate “WP Editarea” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-editarea)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-editarea/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-editarea/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-editarea/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-editarea/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.4

 * Confirmed works with WordPress 3.6
 * Small code changes

#### 0.3

 * Confirmed works with WordPress 3.5.1
 * Fixed notice error when WP_DEBUG set to true

#### 0.2

 * Bug fixed: toggle word wrap option not work (reported by pattrick, http://takien.
   com/606#comment-1286)
 * Added: toggle word wrap toolbar
 * Default Display is now “onload”, instead of “later”. (I found saving problem 
   when display is “later”)

#### 0.1

 * First release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.4**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.6.1**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-editarea/)
 * Tags
 * [Code Highlight](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/code-highlight/)[dashboard](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)
   [editor](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/editor/)[source code](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/source-code/)
   [wp-admin](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wp-admin/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-editarea/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  1 5-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-editarea/reviews/?filter=5)
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 *  [  2 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-editarea/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-editarea/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ takien ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/takien/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-editarea/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](https://takien.com/donate)