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Joomla! 5 uses TinyMCE 6. This plugin can't work with TinyMCE 6, and I have no use case for it anymore so I am not updating it.

TinyMCE Configuration Modifier for Joomla

A system plugin to customise TinyMCE beyond what Joomla lets you do.

WARNING! This plugin is meant for expert users. You can very easily break the TinyMCE editor or override Joomla's editor profiles if you're not careful.

Requirements

• Joomla 4
• PHP 7.2 or later, including any PHP 8 version
• Using Joomla's built-in TinyMCE editor plugin (duh!)

How it works

Install the plugin and enable it; it appears in the plugins manager as “System - TinyMCE Configuration Modifier”.

Edit the “System - TinyMCE Configuration Modifier”.

The only option is an editor field where you can paste a JSON document with TinyMCE configuration options. Please consult the TinyMCE configuration reference.

IMPORTANT! At the time of this writing, TinyMCE has published version 6 of their editor but Joomla 4 is only using TinyMCE 5. Please remember to select “TinyMCE v5” in the drop-down of the TinyMCE documentation to view the information which is relevant to the TinyMCE version Joomla is using.

Example

You can override the styles which are available under Format, Formats in the TinyMCE menu and in the style drop-down in the editor's toolbar. Let's say you want to remove the heading levels 1 and 2.

You can do that with the following JSON document:

{
    "style_formats_merge": false,
    "style_formats": [
        {
            "title": "Headings",
            "items": [
                {
                    "title": "Heading 3",
                    "format": "h3"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Heading 4",
                    "format": "h4"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Heading 5",
                    "format": "h5"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Heading 6",
                    "format": "h6"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "title": "Inline",
            "items": [
                {
                    "title": "Bold",
                    "format": "bold"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Italic",
                    "format": "italic"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Underline",
                    "format": "underline"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Strikethrough",
                    "format": "strikethrough"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Superscript",
                    "format": "superscript"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Subscript",
                    "format": "subscript"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Code",
                    "format": "code"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "title": "Blocks",
            "items": [
                {
                    "title": "Paragraph",
                    "format": "p"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Blockquote",
                    "format": "blockquote"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Div",
                    "format": "div"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Pre",
                    "format": "pre"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "title": "Align",
            "items": [
                {
                    "title": "Left",
                    "format": "alignleft"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Center",
                    "format": "aligncenter"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Right",
                    "format": "alignright"
                },
                {
                    "title": "Justify",
                    "format": "alignjustify"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
	"block_formats": "Paragraph=p; Heading 3=h3; Heading 4=h4; Heading 5=h5; Heading 6=h6; Preformatted=pre; Code=code"
}

Please note that we had to set style_formats_merge to false to make sure that our style_formats replace the existing definitions. There is no other way to remove style formats.

Also note that this does not remove the formats pulled in from the editor.css file. That's a plugin, not a hard-coded style format.

Finally, the block_formats determines what will be shown in the “block elements” drop-down. I removed the heading levels 1 and 2, and I added a <code> element which I frequently use when doing technical support of my software.