Question

I have a tinyMCE plugin (for the post/page editor) that I am loading from my WordPress plugin that needs to have several external javascript files loaded in order for my tinyMCE plugin to work.

In WordPress 3.3.1 I can just register and enqueue the scripts from the mce_external_plugins filter but any WordPress version below that doesn’t load the scripts.

Anybody have experience in this?

Answer 1

The method that I found to work with my problem is by hooking to after_wp_tiny_mce and then in the callback, calling wp_print_scripts directly. It still handles all the dependencies of the scripts.

Also, because wp_localize_script won’t work with this method due to the scripts not being enqueued, I am echoing my objects directly above my calls to wp_print_scripts like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
var MyLocalizedData = {"foo": "barito"};
/* ]]> */
</script>

EDIT :
This fix will only work in WordPress >= 3.2