TinyMCE Tabfocus Patch

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The TinyMCE Tabfocus Patch is a WordPress plugin which disables TinyMCE plugin Tabfocus thereby allowing tab characters to be typed into posts.

While attempting to write several posts including blocks of code I realized that TinyMCE was stripping out all the tab characters I attempted to type. Although I could type tab characters in HTML mode, switching between HTML and Visual removed the tab characters, infuriating me. I use CodeColorer for code coloring, and as the plugin also converts tabs to non-blocking spaces automatically I donÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’t want tab characters that I paste in to get stripped.

After searching for the cause of this issue I realized that the cause was the tabfocus TinyMCE plugin. Rather than going into post.php and manually removing the TinyMCE plugin from the list of plugins to be automatically loaded, I wrote this WordPress to handle it for me.

This plugin should work with TinyMCE, TinyMCE Advanced, and most other TinyMCE mods out there.

Special thanks to Mike WalkerÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s TinyMCE Entities Patch which provided the basis for understanding how to hook the necessary section of code to solve the problem.