=== Forum Beginner Posts ===
Contributors: fliz, kona
Tags: bbpress, visual editor, visual, tinymce, teenymce, teeny, wysiwyg, paste, paste as text, paste-as-text, paste error, bad paste
Requires at least: 3.9
Tested up to: 4.4.2
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Enables the Visual Editor for bbPress posts, using paste-as-text mode to prevent unwanted styling and markup appearing in pasted content.

== Description ==

Novice or non-technical users may be uncomfortable with shortcodes and html formatting.  Enabling the Visual Editor pane in bbPress allows them to create and format forum posts using a familiar, word-processor-like set of tool buttons.

However, novice users may not be aware that text copied from applications such as word processors, web browsers and email clients can contain a lot of hidden mark-up and styling.  Pasting such text into the Visual Editor may <em>seem</em> to work at the time, but can lead to published posts that are garbled with mark-up code or which break the overall page styling.

To avoid such problems, this plugin also enforces paste-as-text mode, which attempts to strip all mark-up and styling from pasted text before it is inserted into the Visual Editor.  If heavily-formatted text is being pasted, the de-styled result may be ugly - but at least it will accurately represent how the published post will look.

*Note: If you wish to enable the Visual Editor but **don't** wish to enforce paste-as-text mode, you could try using [bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/) instead.*

== Installation ==

1. Install this plugin via the WordPress plugin control panel, or by manually downloading it and uploading the extracted folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. That's all! There are no configurable options for this plugin.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= The plugin is active but I'm not seeing either the Visual or the Text tab when creating forum posts - what should I do? =

Make sure that 'Post Formatting' is switched on in bbPress.  You can find it under Forum Features on the bbPress Forums Settings page.  See screenshot 3 for details.

= I'm seeing an admin error message saying "Please enable 'Post Formatting'..." - what should I do? =

As above.

= Does this plugin affect the behaviour of the Visual Editor when editing ordinary WordPress posts and pages? =

No. It only affects the behaviour of the Visual Editor in bbPress.

== Screenshots ==

1. Default bbPress post creation without Visual Editor.

2. Post creation with Visual Editor enabled by Forum Beginner Posts.

3. Where to enable "Post Formatting" in bbPress options.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =
* Initial version

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.0.0 =
Initial version.