December 31st, 2007
Foliopress WYSIWYG is the editor you were always hoping for, every time you installed a new content management system.
Foliopress WYSIWYG toolbar preview
- 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- Foliopress WYSIWYG will never go out of date: Foliopress WYSIWYG is assembled from best of breed open source projects so it will always be on the cutting edge of web design.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.
Foliopress WYSIWYG is now available.
Download Foliopress WYSIWYG version 0.3.
peter |
WordPress |
December 12th, 2007
If you've picked up an older WordPress theme, you might just be missing a key feature included in most recent themes. And this feature is essential to CMS nirvana.
Front end editing.
What's front end editing?
Front end editing is being able to navigate the site from the front end - like an end user - and just click a button, edit your post and go back to the front end.
Here's what it looks like on this weblog (you won't see it as you are not logged in and are unlikely to be in the future unless you work for Foliovision):
front end editing wordpress
Here it is actually at the bottom of a post.
I prefer the edit button at the top of a post actually.
To add it to your posts and pages, you have to open up the following file in your WordPress template: page.php.
The full path is: /wp-content/themes/yourtheme/page.php
Here is the code you need to paste in:
<p><?php // the edit link
edit_post_link(__('Edit','drunkey-love'),'','');
// end of edit link
?></p>
You should paste it at the top of your page.php file.
Here's what my finished page.php looks like for a new site:
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="content">
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/sidebar.php");?>
<div id="contentmiddle">
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<p><?php // the edit link
edit_post_link(__('Edit','drunkey-love'),'','');
// end of edit link
?></p>
<?php the_content(__('Read more'));?>
<!--
<?php trackback_rdf(); ?>
-->
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p><?php endif; ?>
</div>
</div>
<!-- The main column ends -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
With this code, if you are logged in you can now navigate to any page and edit on the spot. Your clients can too.
Everyone is happy.
For those who are not happy editing PHP (me until recently), here's a zipped version of page.php which you can try replacing in your your theme directory /wp-content/themes/yourtheme/ . It will probably work.
alec |
WordPress |
