True Wordpress WYSIWYG: Foliopress

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Foliopress WYIWYG Editor For Wordpress
 

Foliopress WYSIWYG is the editor you were always hoping for, every time you installed a new content management system:
 

  • Foliopress WYSIWYG is simple and correctly configured straight out of the box.
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG handles images and text equally well.
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG gives you SEO ready images (properly labelled with caption and alt and title tags).
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG is simple enough to use that your clients will love it.
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG has all the extra control and flexibility you want to be able to do advanced coding on your content pages.
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG looks great in your browser window. No more eyesore when using an online text editor. We aren't living in the 90's anymore and our online text editors shouldn't? look like WordStar.
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG has easy and quick access to source code for experts so your programmers won't get frustrated and turn it off.
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG produces standards compliant html quickly and easily.
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG is forgiving: even if you make some terrible HTML/XHTML errors Foliopress WYSIWYG? will always give you or your clients it's best version of your document without erasing it.
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG does true WYSIWYG. You can actually see the text in your edit box the same way it is in your content box (simple three step point and click configuration).
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG will never go out of date: Foliopress WYSIWYG is assembled from best of breed open source projects so it will always be on the cutting edge of web design. The parts are carefully assembled as modules with no modifications to core code so you can always drop the latest version of the core libraries in for a seamless and instant upgrade.
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG is so easy and fun to use, that you just might want to retire your word processor and write all your documents online.
  • Foliopress WYSIWYG is easy to upgrade. Just drop the latest version in your plugin folder and you are up do date.

Please read the installation guide for other requirements and installation instructions!

Foliopress WYSIWYG is now available.

Download for WP 2.2+ to 2.9.1 (works on latest WP too!) Foliopress WYSIWYG version 0.9.7.

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59 comments on “True Wordpress WYSIWYG: Foliopress”

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    [...] Foliopress WYSIWYG and Foliopress Images The best for last. Like many web developers these days, we are using Wordpress as the core for our sites. Over the last two years we’ve built our own frameworks, including page management and better admin sections. Finally we’ve completed the crown jewel, Foliopress WYSIWYG and Foliopress Images. It’s what makes writing this post and adding attractive Google images ready thumbnails so easy. The best part is that Foliopress WYSIWYG is truly a drag and drop ready to go editing system with image management. No trolling through config files to be up and running at full efficiency. [...]

    Web Tools We Use to run Foliovision at December 31st, 2007 around 11:53 am
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    I really like your plugin and have installed on 2 of my sites. When I tried to install it on my 3rd site, I got these errors:

    Error loading http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/foliopress-wysiwyg/custom-config/foliopress-wysiwyg-config-js.php.

    and “Toolbar set “Foliovision” doesn’t exist”

    Any ideas how I can fix this? All site are running on a shared account from hostgator.

    Louise at October 5th, 2008 around 11:51 am
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    Hello Louse,

    Thanks for the kind words. Peter will be in touch with you with some suggestions later today.

    Cordial regards,

    Alec

    alec at October 6th, 2008 around 1:08 am
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    Hello Louise,

    it seems that the path provided by plugin to FCK is incorrect. Check if that file is accessible by that link http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/foliopress-wysiwyg/custom-config/foliopress-wysiwyg-config-js.php.

    Next make sure you use proper config file. Correct one is located on our website on this page. Download the plugin again and use the clean install.

    Third, check in .htaccess (for apache) that this link is not redirected anywhere else.

    Best regards,
    Peter

    peter at October 6th, 2008 around 6:16 am
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    Peter-

    Thanks for the quick reply.

    The link is NOT accessible. I checked and I can access it on other sites on which the plugin is working.

    I just can’t find a difference between the working and non-working sites, even as to file structure. I have even made sure the .htaccess files are identical.

    When you mention using the proper config file, do you mean the one included in the plugin download or is there another one. I have deleted the plugin files and reinstalled with no difference.

    Thanks for your help-
    Louise

    Louise at October 7th, 2008 around 2:53 pm
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    Hello Louise,

    This file stores and generates configuration for FCKeditor, therefore is very important. There may be some issues from server, blocking direct access to files that are in some path. That will certainly enhance the security, but will criple many plugins.

    If you want me to help you set it up on your server, you can write me an e-mail peter@foliovision.com . I don’t have any other sugestion. I need to see it, since we haven’t encouter this problem before. I hope you, or we’ll get this resolved ASAP.

    Best regards,
    Peter

    peter at October 8th, 2008 around 6:49 am
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    Hi,
    Was this problem ever resolved, I get the same problem as Louise. I’d like to use this plugin it looks good.

    Best Regards
    John

    John at October 8th, 2008 around 12:21 pm
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    Hello John,

    Louise wasn’t back in touch with us. We are looking forward to getting this issues sorted as quickly as possible. Peter will contact you directly to get the problem resolved.

    If anyone has encountered and resolved this issue, please drop a line to peter@foliovision.com so we can upload a new version or new instructions.

    Thanks!

    alec at October 8th, 2008 around 2:26 pm
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    Peter-

    Thanks for the attention! I just sent an email to you. I have an open ticket with my host Hostgator to see if this may be a security issue on their end. not yours. I’ll report back what I find.

    Louise

    Louise at October 8th, 2008 around 7:29 pm
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    Ok, guys, here’s the problem & fix that I got back from Hostgator. It was a server permission problem, not a plugin problem. So if you are having similar problems your host may be able to fix this for you.

    “This was the error that was being reported by our servers:

    SoftException in Application.cpp:544: Directory “/home/mysite/public_html/wp-content” is writeable by group [Thu Oct 9 12:35:01 2008] [error] [client 216.110.94.227] Premature end of script headers: /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/foliopress-wysiwyg/custom-config/foliopress-wysiwyg-config-js.php

    I corrected the permissions issues and was able to successfully active the plugin without receiving an error.”

    Louise at October 9th, 2008 around 2:57 pm
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    Hi Louise,
    Thank you very much for sharing this information, I will contact my hosting company and see if they can do the same fix
    Best Regards
    John

    John at October 10th, 2008 around 2:44 am
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    Hello Louise,

    Thanks so much for the update.

    John, let us know if the permissions fix works for you as well.

    If so, we will add it to the documentation above.

    alec at October 10th, 2008 around 3:45 am
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    Hello Everyone,

    Anyone who has been having issues getting Foliopress WYSIWYG to run on account of permission issues, the issue is solved.

    The wp-content folder needs very particular write permissions to work with Foliopress WYSIWYG and some other advanced plugins. As Louise pointed out the permissions need to be set to 755 (777 will not work) for security reasons.

    We are looking into workarounds for this but in the meantime, if you are having issues with permissions and Foliopress WYSIWYG, just change wp-content to 755.

    Thanks again Louise.

    alec at October 10th, 2008 around 11:41 am
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    Alguien sabe si funciona con todos los exploradores. Anteriormente tenia uno que funcionaba con todos los exploradores menos en el Internet Explorer.
    POor favor si lo han probado con la ultima version y funciona me podrian avisar???

    George el Ermitaño at January 30th, 2009 around 3:47 pm
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    Hello George,

    Yes, the latest version works very well with Internet Explorer. We are using the latest version on about fifteen websites across three different webhosts with no problems.

    Let us know if you have any difficulties and we’ll look into it right away. Foliopress WYSIWYG is an actively maintained project.

    alec at January 30th, 2009 around 8:23 pm
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    Plugin will not activate get this error after install and trying to activate: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONST, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/content/b/i/b/bibflasso/html/www_westgatemarketing_wp/wp-content/plugins/foliopress-wysiwyg/foliopress-wysiwyg-class.php on line 94

    Elliott Cunningham at April 8th, 2009 around 10:22 pm
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    The native WordPress Visual Editor isn’t good for much and I seldom use it but plugins such as NextGen Gallery and CForms add a “button” that inserts a shortcode for a gallery or a contact form. This is a very useful feature. When I activate Foliopress they are missing. Is there a way to turn them in Foliopress?

    RickA at May 2nd, 2009 around 3:06 am
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    Hello Rick,

    The latest version of Foliopress WYSIWYG does work with the extra buttons from Wordpress (and probably NextGen Gallery).

    I’ve worked with NextGen Gallery and hated it. It’s really slow. NextGen gallery doesn’t cooperate well with the core Wordpress code.

    If load speed matters to you, my recommendation is to use Foliopress WYSIWYG as your gallery software within a post.

    If you stick one or two images above the more button, the rest below, you have a very serviceable gallery, combined with SlimBox.

    The very latest version of Foliopress WYSIWYG even works with FTP – very hot, you can upload dozens of images at a time – but I’m not sure that version is up here for download yet. If not, we’ll put it up Monday.

    Thanks for your question, Rick. We are very actively developing Foliopress WYSIWYG so we appreciate your feedback.

    alec at May 2nd, 2009 around 9:54 am
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    I just installed Foliopress (and the 2 disabling plugins) in WordPress mu 2.7 and it works OK. But even with the setting for “full” toolbars, it seems to have less functionality than Advanced TinyMCE, which I was using before. Even simple stuff like non-breaking spaces and custom classes aren’t available.

    Am I missing something? Do I still need to install another component? If the sites were just for me, I’d be happy with source code, but some of the people I develop sites for won’t touch the source and really need all those tools.

    Though I will say I like the image uploader and the fact that it doesn’t delete empty hard returns or breaks.

    Jersey Bob at May 20th, 2009 around 4:24 pm
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    Hello Bob,

    The lack of buttons is deliberate. Those extra buttons produce broken markup. If somebody wants to use &nbsp they should be doing it in source code – or usually not at all.

    I think you’ll find with the full toolbar absolutely everything you really need is there. We are working on adding some custom classes, which you could do yourself. The custom classes each person needs are different in any case.

    Thank you for taking the time to let us know about your concerns.

    alec at May 21st, 2009 around 5:41 am
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    Alec, thanks for responding. The reason I create WordPress sites for clients is so non-technical people can modify content. Some of my clients don’t have trouble making small changes to source code, but most do.

    As for custom classes, what would be great is to populate a drop-down list with my own class names. TinyMCE does that, but it has the disadvantage of putting background images and colors into the editing window, which can make text hard to edit.

    FYI, another toolbar I find helpful is Viper’s Video Tags. It lets you insert the URL of a video on YouTube, Yahoo, Vimeo and other sites, and it creates the embed code.

    Of course, I can’t expect you to re-create every feature that every other editor has, but if your toolbar could be compatible with others, users would have a choice.

    Jersey Bob at May 21st, 2009 around 10:59 am
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    Hello Bob,

    I agree that allowing classes in a drop down menu is a good idea. We’ll do that in June.

    I don’t like the idea of integrating video code. It changes often and will be a maintenance nightmare. If somebody wants to insert an external video, they’ll have to be able to copy and past into source code.

    As you have noted other editors do lots of other things, but they are difficult to use or ugly. Our stress with Foliopress WYSIWYG is on easy to use, keeping code clean and attractive.

    Thank you for the suggestions.

    alec at May 21st, 2009 around 3:02 pm
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    Hello Alec,

    first thank you for the great plugin, I am just starting to use it and I have a question.
    If you go to http://rewindskincare.com/ you will see a horizontal image in the content area. Here is the source from withing Foliopress when I look up the source:

    Beauty
    is best left natural
    Thank you for taking the time to visit Rewind Skin Care

    Some how the around the image always comes back in the source, every edit I make to the page (notice page not post, does that make a difference?), I must clean up the code otherwise the gets republished.

    Both Disable wpautop and Disable wptexturize are installed and activated… any idea what I am doing wrong? I use WP 2.7.1

    Thanks
    Yanik

    Yanik at June 17th, 2009 around 9:16 am
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    Hello Yanik,

    thank you, have you already fixed the page?

    I’m not sure what the problem is, the page looks nice. Can you please be more specific (which image are we talking about)? I can’t find any of these sentences (Beauty, is best left natural …) in the page source.

    It should not make any difference, if you edit page or post.

    Regards,
    M.

    martinv at June 20th, 2009 around 1:51 am
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    Alec,

    Thank you for the great plug-ins. They solved the vexing problem with WordPress not supporting commenting out code.

    I’ve turned on the full toolbar and the one button/feature I’m not seeing is “Paste as Plain Text.” I also tried pasting in text, highlighting it, and clicking the Remove Format button, but that didn’t get rid of the inherited formatting.

    Robert

    Robert at June 23rd, 2009 around 11:18 am
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    Hello Robert,

    Pasting as plain text is a problem we’ve really struggled to fix (we want this feature ourselves). The issue is that Firefox does not allow us to access the clipboard which means we have no way to clean the text before pasting.

    Clipboard pasting will work on IE but the workaround is fairly complicated and would introduce non-feature parity which we don’t want as we recommend our clients use Firefox.

    The workaround we recommend to people on Windows computers is to open Notepad, paste into Notepad and copy back and then paste into Foliopress WYSIWYG.

    An issue that I’m not happy about is that even a plain text paste creates br tags and not paragraphs. That’s a planned fix for the next release.

    alec at June 24th, 2009 around 8:22 am
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    Hi! Thank you for this great plugin, I have been using it several weeks.
    Everything was fine, just some days ago suddenly image management stopped working. I can’t upload pictures, create subfolders, or send older pictures into post, nothing reacts. also the standard WP image uploadin stopped working (i try to upload, but nothing happens…). Any idea whats the problem?
    Thanks a lot!!!

    tom at August 10th, 2009 around 4:46 am
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    Hello Tom,

    If Wordpress built-in upload isn’t working either, it sounds to me like hosting issues and not Foliopress WYSIWYG issues.

    You could try changing permissions on the upload directories.

    alec at August 10th, 2009 around 10:22 am
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    Hello Alec,

    thanks a lot for this great plugin. got it up and running on one WP site but failed with two other servers. Actually the plugin of the plugin of the plugin ;-) (fckeditors kfm-plugin) doesn’t connect to the mysql database. All I get in the popup is this:
    MDB2 Error: connect failed
    connect: [Error message: Access denied for user: 'p6668091@localhost' (Using password: NO)] [Native code: 1045] [Native message: Access denied for user: 'p6668091@localhost' (Using password: NO)] ** mysql(mysql)://:xxx@/ …and then some.

    I really coudn’t figure the differnces in the 3 installations. Same paths, mysq, php5, etc.

    Got any Ideas?

    Thanks!

    Alan at September 16th, 2009 around 1:59 pm
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    Hello Alan,

    there are two ideas in my mind about this issue:

    1. Your web server is denying access to database from scripts on some path. You can try to solve that by adding path to KFM

    2. KFM is parsing wp-config.php file to get the DB login information. This parsing may go wrong if the config doesn’t look very well (by means of formatting). If the DB info looks like this – this should be parsed well.
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘test’);
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘pass’);
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
    KFM haven’t used password to log in to DB. This may be the first indicator that something is wrong with parsing.

    Please try writing again is these two suggestions are not helping you.

    peter at September 18th, 2009 around 6:34 am
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    Hello Peter!

    Thanks for the quick reply but I’m still hanging in there.

    Ok, I checked a lot of things now. Both (non-functioning) servers allow all scripts from within the webserver access to the db.

    I tripple checked the wp-config-files to exact formating.

    I checked with the 2 hosting-providers.

    The only difference between the functioning and the non-functioning servers I could find, is:

    Functioning server has a server-alias in define(‘DB_HOST’ ‘mysqlv5′)

    While the non-functioning have (‘DB_HOST’ ‘localhost’) and (‘DB_HOST’ ‘localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock’)

    Browsing the web I could find some hints that PEAR might have issues with mysql-socket-connections but I do not understand enough of scripting to fiqure out exactly where and what to do. Besides it would be pointless because plugins get updated at some point an no one can keep track of all the scripting changes.

    Unfortunately the error message doesn’t help a lot because it seems to ignore the (possibly) failed parsing of wp-config (or failed db-connect) and then tries sort of a fall-back to ftp-user-name and then shows the error-message for that.

    Another difference i could find between functioning and non-functioning servers is the kfm_tables in the mysql-db missing. I do not know at what point (after install or first use) they are created in mysql.

    Alan at September 18th, 2009 around 11:52 am
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    Hello Alan,

    looking into this problem even more, I don’t have any particular solution for you. We’ve never experienced this problem before.

    peter at September 25th, 2009 around 6:15 am
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    Hi guys, thank you very much for your great plugin.
    The new editor toolbar is really perfect for my usage, simple and agreable.
    I have only one problem : like reported before, the shortcut button for wp plugin “NextGen Gallery” that was added to the default wp editor doesnt show up, even with the full toolbar.
    I know your plugin offers a images manager too but the functions of ngg seem more fitted to what i need.
    As i would be unable to write myself a fck plugin or something, im asking you guys, how could i do to get that button back ?
    Thanks a lot for your help !!

    Eric at September 27th, 2009 around 9:07 am
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    Hi Eric,

    Thanks for writing.

    NextGen Gallery is one of the worst Wordpress plugins around. We were called in to rescue a Wordpress site falling apart under NGG. Our resuscitation attempt was successful but gave us a lifelong distaste for this convoluted and processor hungry code.

    You can emulate most of the functionality with our SEO Images/Foliopress WYSIWYG just by putting the thumbnails in a single post (works conveniently up to about 20). You’ll get a lightbox slideshow. This gallery type post was created with Foliopress WYSIWYG: http://uncoy.com/2009/05/choreolab-09.html

    We have no plans to support NextGen Gallery. If I were you, I’d avoid NGG altogether. Your site will run faster, smoother with less compatibility issues. It will also be far more future proof.

    alec at September 27th, 2009 around 4:55 pm
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    I really like what you guys are doing here. When I get some time I plan to test it out.

    I noticed you are not fans of NGG and I agree it does run fairly slow. (Before I put my foot in my mouth, I know I should test out your plugin first)How would you suggest that I get the same or similar functionality when I have a gallery that is usually in the 150 picture range?

    Thanks for the suggestions.

    Joseph at October 4th, 2009 around 11:39 pm
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    Hi Joseph,

    The way I solve this issue (huge image uploads), is to put selects (up to 20) inside Wordpress with Foliopress WYSIWYG/SEO Images and then link out to a Smugmug gallery for 100 images (in the case I need it).

    Smugmug is set up for all the heavy lifting including selling images and it keeps Wordpress lean.

    It’s very rare that one would have more than 10 must see photos of any given event.

    Just be more selective. Your readers will thank you.

    PS. If you decide to sign up for Smugmug you can save $5 with this code: mIQp9QbUmqWu6

    alec at October 5th, 2009 around 5:22 am
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    Love your foliopress plugin but, I noticed that when I am using it with other plugins like “More Fileds” and “Flutter” that add additional wysiwigs on the post/page admin panels, it removes the secondary wysiwigs. The main content one works fine, but any text areas that were added no longer have their editors. Do you know of a workaround for this?

    Brent at November 10th, 2009 around 3:30 pm
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    Hi Brent,

    We haven’t programmed Foliopress WYSIWYG to work with multiple WYSIWYG. This is generally a big issue with multiple WYSIWYG editors. I would suggest that you don’t use WYSIWYG for your secondary fields.

    alec at November 10th, 2009 around 3:33 pm
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    Hello Brent,

    I did a quick test with the “More Fields” plugin and I can see the problem. The JavaScript code which is putting on the secondary WYSIWYGs – TinyMCE is not working, as TinyMCE is disabled.

    I wrote down the code, maybe we can make it work with our editor in one of the next versions.

    Martin at November 11th, 2009 around 2:52 am
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    Hi Brent,

    Great plugin!
    Only one problem, if installed with mailpress the editor in mailpress is not working. It defaults to html editor.
    Also there is problem with “Insert media” button. It shows popup and everything but when I select image and click insert, popup clears out and no image is inserted.

    Do you have any idea?

    Thanks in advance

    Simon at November 13th, 2009 around 12:07 am
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    Hi Simon,

    I checked on the Mailpress issue and it’s really not working. However we want to make it compatible in one of the next versions.

    We tested the Insert media button extensively and it’s working. Are you seeing any JavaScript errors in your Firefox? Can you create a test editor account on your site for me to see the problem?

    Thanks,
    M.

    Martin at November 13th, 2009 around 1:53 am
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    When I set the post ID in the settings for foliopress wysiwyg, it changes the fonts as desired, however it also changes the background to the theme’s background graphic, which is dark on top. The area where the text goes is light-color on the site, so the text is black. This is on top of the dark part of the background graphic, which isn’t helpful at all. Is there any way to tell it to keep a white background and not pull the theme’s background graphic, while still keeping the font styles?
    Thanks.

    Matt Schlueter at November 13th, 2009 around 11:52 pm
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    Hello Matt,

    this depends on how your template is built. Have you tried to add some of the classes which enclose the main post area? We usually start with putting the class of the div which is enclosing the post content, that’s usually ‘entry’. If that’s not enough, we try to add class of some other div which is containing this ‘entry’ div or the ID of the main container element as you did.

    If that won’t solve the problem with background, add a new class called ‘wysiwyg’ to your style.css and set no background for it and add ‘wysiwyg’ to the post class.

    If that won’t help you can send me your template and I’ll try to find the right configuration. Hopefully in the future our plugin can analyze the style.css and do some sort of auto configuration or at least disable the background image.

    You can contact me through contact form.

    Thanks,
    M.

    Martin at November 14th, 2009 around 2:05 am
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    Hey there,

    I just stumbled over your WYSIWYG editor for Wordpress in search of one that is not that messy as TinyMCE (and even Advanced) is. So far it looks nice, though takes longer to load each time I edit a post/page…
    What really bugs me is the styles import thingy, as it is so easy in TMCE – how can I get
    a) my styles applied visibly to the content in my editor window and
    b) get all the styles from my theme automatically added to the css dropdown?

    Any help appreciated… looking forward to having an editor that is…. sweet ;).

    Best

    Sam

    Sam at November 21st, 2009 around 8:38 am
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    Hello Sam,

    a) & b) please read WYSIWYG installation guidehere. I’m sure it will help you a lot. We want to make it easier, so we are open to suggestions.

    b) You need to customize the dropdown manually. If you have and idea how to add all the styling automatically, we will love to hear about it. It would not be a problem to add it all there, but that’s not what you/we want. There’s a lot of styling in the style.css which isn’t applying to the actual text/html elements.

    Thanks,
    M.

    Martin at November 22nd, 2009 around 5:47 am
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    1st of all, thanks for another alternative to the standard WP wysiwyg editor.

    Previously I’ve used the tinymce advanced editor for most of my WP sites and found it fairly functional but ocassionally problematic. SInce I’ve been happy with fckeditor on a few drupal installs I thought I’d give your plugin a try on a test WP site.

    My impressions so far are:
    It seems light and fast in limited testing and seems to do what it does well. The image manager works particularly well.
    BUT -
    The absence of features has me questioning whether it will be a viable replacement for what I’ve been using.

    I have read the previous comments and your answers to those, and understand that you have concerns over bad markup…..Should I assume that fckeditor (in itself) produces this markup in its base form ? Options for font, font color, strikethrough, underline, background color are all noticably absent as far as I can see. Fckeditor (versions I’ve used at least) also has custom template capabilities that I find very useful.

    I guess I’m just wondering if theres a way to utilize this plugin AND take advantage of ALL the “normal”(in my experience)fckeditor features even if it means doing some minor config alterations ?

    tia, Teros

    teros at December 2nd, 2009 around 9:54 am
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    Hello Teros,

    we don’t like using font and font colors as it puts a ugly inline CSS. Instead we added a customizable drop-down menu to the latest version which you can download here.

    We recommend you adding some classes for different fonts and fontsizes in your CSS and then just to add it to the dropdown.

    If you are not ok with that, you can still just customize the toolbar and add all the default buttons to it.

    All of that can be done within the plugin options page & CSS customization, all the info you need is here: http://foliovision.com/seo-tools/wordpress/plugins/wysiwyg/installation

    Thanks,
    M.

    Martin at December 3rd, 2009 around 1:45 am
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    Hi-

    Thanks so much for all your work on Foliopress. It’s a default install on all the sites I create for clients. I have one small issue in that I can’t seem to resize the height of editing window in any browser. What am I missing?

    Thanks again!

    -Jeff

    Jeff at December 18th, 2009 around 2:14 pm
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    Hi Jeff,

    Thanks for your kind words. We use it as default as well now across a whole lot of sites. Tough to work on a site which doesn’t have Foliopress WYSIWYG.

    Edit Window Height: We always try to stay close to default Wordpress so that our clients are not dependent on our plugins. So the preference for editing the height of your windows in Settings –> Writing –> Size of the post box. The default size is what you set for the built-in editor.

    It’s probably worth adding redundant access to that preference in our own preferences window. I know I always have to remember to go and change the settings in Writing as well.

    Cordial regards,

    Alec

    alec at December 18th, 2009 around 4:45 pm
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    Hi,
    Foliopress seems much nicer than the default TinyMCE-editor. Small improvement would be making the plugin work in case the wp-config.php file is moved from the site root to one directory below (eg. from /root/public_html/ to /root/). This is a security measure supported by WordPress since 2.6 and most plugins and instructed by many “securing WordPress” guides.

    I’m not sure if its possible to assign css styles to html elements in the editor view. I would like to have css “clear: both;” for all headers, so that left aligned images wouldn’t cause the editor view being a total mess. In my case, each header should start a new line and not float next to an image.

    Thanks,
    Vinha

    Vinha at January 5th, 2010 around 3:35 am
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    Hi Vinha,

    We’ll look into making Foliopress WYSIWYG work regardless of where WP-Config is (not sure it doesn’t work that way already, as we don’t keep our php files in root either).

    You can set up whatever CSS styles you like in your own CSS. That’s the beauty of semantic markup: you fix display with generic tags and without having to add style elements afterwards.

    Add a clear: both to your headers or to p tags following paragraphs.

    Then when you have a header, there will automatically be clears on it.

    alec at January 5th, 2010 around 7:54 am
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    I succesfully installed the plugin but cannot get the SEO Image Management popup to work.

    When trying to place an image into my post I click on the “Quick insert Image” button and I get the KFM File manager.

    All I see is the left section (search and Directories) but they are empty and so is the middle section.

    I do not see anything to upload.

    I played around with the permission settings (775 and 777) but nothing worked so far.

    note: I am running the blog in a directory from the main site ie http://www.mywebsite.com/blog <- wordpress is installed in the blog directory.

    Andy at January 30th, 2010 around 2:56 pm
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    Hi Andy,

    For the moment Foliopress WYSIWYG image management works with Firefox 2+, IE 6+, Camino 2+. The image management is not working with Safari or Chrome yet (we’re working on it). However the text editing features are working with both those browsers.

    If you are still having trouble with your install, we’d be happy to troubleshoot your install. Having us do it for you is just $30 and we’ll have the work done within a day.

    Thanks for stopping by.

    alec at February 3rd, 2010 around 9:48 am
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    Hello Andy, hello Alec,

    I still (see above 16th September) have the same problem as Andy on 3 wp installs. Thats why I still use the Nextgen-gallery-plugin, because it works reliably and wouldn’t cost me $90 to “fix” … hehehe just pokin’ ;-)

    Alan at February 3rd, 2010 around 10:18 am
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    Hi Everyone,

    The pasting in IE is fixed now. There is an advanced rich text button now on the default toolbar that you can turn on or on if you want to post with formatting (only recommended within a post, not from external sources).

    Hi Alan,

    Actually it would cost you $30, as we’d fix one of your sites and let you know what the issue is and you could repair your installs on the other two sites yourself.

    Foliopress WYSIWYG is the best SEO friendly WYSIWYG on any platform and it’s free. Sorry that’s not enough for you.

    If your time doesn’t have any value, that’s your problem. Ours does.

    In any case, if you’re using NextGen gallery, there’s not much we can do to help you as your Wordpress site will always be broken as long as NextGen gallery is running.

    alec at February 4th, 2010 around 8:01 am
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    We’ve been using the rich text paste, and it works well. Is there any way to tell it to default to “on”? — My users continuously forget to push the button every time they go to edit a post.

    Matt S at February 4th, 2010 around 8:11 am
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    Hi Matt,

    Leaving the rich text button on is a real danger as a single paste from IE or Firefox or Safari can totally spoil a page. Cleaning the post out is quite arduous.

    That said if you really want paste to default to rich text, here’s what you do:

    1. Open this file: /wp-content/plugins/foliopress-wysiwyg/fckeditor/fckconfig.js
    2. Change “FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText= true ;” to “FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText= false ;”

    Let us know how it goes.

    alec at February 4th, 2010 around 8:39 am
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    ok, so I tried installing a new Wordpress blog at the root level. Also, I am using Dreamhost.

    Then I installed the wysiwyg editor and went over to edit a post.

    I click on the image manager and still nothing. I see the Search function and the directory “section” but it’s all blank.

    I cannot upload images and there is no directory structure at all.

    Andy at February 6th, 2010 around 1:53 pm
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    Hi Andy,

    We have a Dreamhost account (mass storage, would never dream of using Dreamhost for a production site, nor Bluehost or any of the budget oversold hosts). We’ll give the latest Foliopress WYSIWYG a test again later this week (it’s worked on Dreamhost in the past).

    alec at February 6th, 2010 around 6:21 pm
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