Need-Plugin “Brush Design”

Hello @naryy!

What sort of formatting are you looking to paint? A plugin like TinyMCE advanced makes more options visible for content formatting in the default WordPress editor, but doesn’t include the format painter tool like Word. (It’s been rumored that a Format Painter is “on the roadmap” for future versions of TinyMCE, but doesn’t appear to be integrated yet.)

Another possible option is Wordable, which is a paid plugin that claims to allow content creation in Word or Google Docs and then export as WordPress content, complete with formatting and images. I’ve never used it, but they do offer a free trial so it may be worth a try.

Another option may be to play around with the new Gutenberg editing experience to see how that suits your needs. It’s much different than the classic editor.

In looking through past support conversations I see two references to Format Painter functionality, but it doesn’t appear it’s been resolved in any case, and there doesn’t appear to be a simple solution here either.

It might be a good idea for a plugin! 🙂

From what I could see there is nothing currently in existence that does this.

If it’s something you use consistently in a specific style you may be better off making the customizations in a child theme (not in the main theme file since CSS changes would be overwritten with a theme update). That way whenever you make a paragraph H2 it’ll have that customization automatically.

Does your theme allow that type of global customization in the Appearance area of the admin?

Let’s see if we can get this edit made to your site.

If you log into your site, from the Admin area hover over “Appearance” in the left sidebar, then click “Customize” – this will open your customization panel for your active theme.

Many themes allow custom CSS to override what’s in the theme file, so if this is possible you’ll see an area in the sidebar called “Additional CSS,” as well as a preview of your site. In the preview area, browse to a post or page that you’d like to edit (maybe a new post or page where you didn’t make changes to the formatting of H1, H2, etc. in the content editor).

From there you can add and edit CSS code (many resources out there have blocks of type you can just copy and paste). CSS operates by using a property and a value for the item you are looking to style. If you don’t include information it will use the default, so you only need to add CSS for the items you want to change. CSS would be formatted like this for the changes you mention above, making H2 bold and centered:

h2 { 
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
}

If you’d like to apply the styling to multiple items, you just add them to the selector portion, separated by commas:

h1,
h2,
h3 { 
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
}

Be sure to grab all the code, even the curly brace on the last line. They are important! 🙂

The WordPress Codex has a lot of good resources for learning about CSS and getting snippets of code that you can use in your own site.

The best part about the Customize screen is that you can play around your CSS and just exit without saving if it doesn’t do what you want.

Let me know if you have any luck!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Nichole Aber. Reason: Updated second code snippet to conform to WordPress CSS standards

If I understand correctly, you want to be able to apply your H2 style in the editor with just one click? If so, that is built in to the WordPress editor! 🙂

You may have to click the icon that looks like two rows of menu buttons to get this to show up. This image shows what it looks like. Once the rest of the menu is displaying, there should be a drop-down that says “paragraph” as that is the default text style. With your cursor in whichever line you want to change, you can click on this drop-down selector and choose Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, etc. You don’t need to select all the text, it will change the whole paragraph (if you hit return after a paragraph that’s where the formatting will stop).

You can also apply the paragraph styles with keyboard shortcuts:

Alt+Shift+1 Heading 1
Alt+Shift+2 Heading 2
Alt+Shift+3 Heading 3
Alt+Shift+4 Heading 4
Alt+Shift+5 Heading 5
Alt+Shift+6 Heading 6

A complete list of keyboard shortcuts can be found here: Keyboard Shortcuts << WordPress Codex

I hope this helps!