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It's a little narrow for me when I'm blogging. Is there a plugin of some sort that's in existence that might expand the create post window heightwise?

In my "Write Post" window, I can just drag that window bigger with a resizer thing in the lower right hand corner of it. I just put my mouse on it and drag.

I'm on Wordpress.com, so your results may vary.

Edit: This works on my non-Wordpress.com hosted blog as well.

Somebodywrote a plugin that themes the wp-admin pages. This particular plugin is named Tiger and is created by a Mac user, so I imagine it's somewhat similar to one of the cat-named Mac OS'.

In his Tiger admin theme, his post windows are still the same default size. However, he said that the xhtml markup was (mostly?) untouched and everything was just modified using CSS2 (so if you don't use Safari or Firefox you're kinda SOL anyways if you want to use it).

If you dig through his code you might be able to find the right reference to the textboxes and then modify their default sizes.

Just goes to show how important it is to check timestamps when google searching.

The Tiger admin redesign is a 3 year old project. There is currently something in development called Shuttle over at Broken Kode.

You still might be able to get what you want out of the Tiger admin php files though. GL!

I'm probably wrong since this is too simple but...

*sadface*

Latest WP and all, even.

EDIT: Wait a minute. Do you guys use the built in HTML WYSIWYG editor? Would that affect it? I'm using text only editor so I have to hand code my posts because it would break a few of the plugins that I use.

Just checked. It *is* the WYSIWYG editor that allows expansion.

This was a really annoying problem for me too. Luckily, I stumbled across the solution not too long ago. When logged into your Dashboard, go to Options > Writing. Adjust the integer value in the first textbox "Size of the post box." I'm using 40 lines. Hope this helps!

Community ftw!

I was kinda scratchin' my head at this problem too. Although, with the limited box space I know that if I fill it up before finishing my first paragraph that I need to edit out some of the fluff in my speech.

I'm running a 1680 x 1050. Loooots of real estate to work with. =)

Matt - if you're using your MacBook to post, and assuming you're running the latest Safari (or the old beta of it), you can enlarge any text entry field with a click and drag anyway.

I also do not use the visual editor. And I have a solution for you. :>

Go under Option > Writing. The first option should be:
"Size of the post box: [ ] lines"

I have mine set to 50, which is a little too tall but I keep forgetting to fix it.

[Edit] Ack! Phaelia beat me to it. How did I miss her reply?

An additional note. If you increase the canvas size by dragging it while in WYSIWYG mode (Visual), switching to Code will retain the new size.

~Salad