dfaltermier on "How to add fonts to the Font Family menu in the WP visual editor?"

Hello gang,

I just upgraded to WordPress 3.9. As a result, I can no longer use the [visual editor] plugin Ultimate TinyMCE (http://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-tinymce/) to edit posts, pages, etc. It no longer works with WordPress v3.9 or greater. In it's place, I have installed WP Edit (http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-edit/).

When I used Ultimate TinyMCE, I added a filter in my functions.php file to add fonts to the default Font Family drop-down menu in the WP editor. Here is the code snippet that I used:

/**
     * Override the default font-family loaded into tinymce editor. We did this
     * because we needed to add the 'Wendy' fonts.
     */
    function confit_child_register_tinymce_fonts( $settings ) {
        $settings['theme_advanced_fonts'] =
            'Andale Mono=andale mono,times;'.
            'Arial=arial,helvetica,sans-serif;'.
            'Wendy=wendy;'.            // Add our own @font-face font
            'Wendy Bold=wendy bold;'.  // Font from http://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/Wendy+LP+Bold/
            // (more are added here but excluded for brevity)
            '';
        return $settings;
    }
    add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', 'confit_child_register_tinymce_fonts');

Now that I've switched to WP Edit, this filter no longer works. The array property 'theme_advanced_fonts' no longer exists. So, now I need to find a replacement method to do this.

Question: What is the correct WordPress way to add additional fonts to the Font Family drop-down menu? Do I still need to use the 'tiny_mce_before_init' filter in some way or some other?

I have searched through Google and the WP support forums but am not finding this topic addressed.

Thanks much.
David