When I draft an article I usually write directly in the WordPress editor. Occasionally I’ll compose in another application like Pages or Google Docs. But most the time I just dive right into the editor. As a hand coder, I’m more of a fan of the HTML editor. Most the time I just code what I want.

As I was working on an article the other day, I thought it would be pretty sweet to have a few extra Quicktags up in the editor bar. I remember back in the days of WordPress 1.5 and hacking the quicktags.js file. I shudder at the very thought of doing that now. Hacking a core file is not an option and I don’t want to install a plugin. Installing a plugin would mean I would have to install it on every site I do and set it up new each time.

So I set out to see if I could find some information on how to add my own Quicktags using a js file in my theme and my functions.php page. Continue →