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14 years ago in reply to: Image white sizing handles
Hi Red,
White sizing handles are a very big mistake. When you resize in the post it means your image is being resized by the browser.
That means longer download times (sizing an image down) or distorted ugly images (upsizing an image).
With Foliopress WYSIWYG you right click and choose the right size for your needs in that particular post. At that point Foliopress WYSIWYG creates a smaller version exactly that size. Presto: good looking images and fast downloads.
14 years ago in reply to: Hiding screen options from usersHi Joe,
The focus of Screen Options is not to take choice away from the end user but to give him/her a good default configuration.
We might add a preference to disable Screen Options for non-Admin users (we put clients at Editor level as a general rule).
Would you be able to donate to help us make this feature possible?
14 years ago in reply to: iPad compatibilityHi Brian,
Much as we would like our Foliopress WYSIWYG editor and our SEO Images file manager to work on the iPad, it’s not likely to happen on the current version as they are both very javascript dependent and the version of Safari running on the iPad is not fully compatible with normal Safari.
We suggest using a dedicated WordPress posting app on an iPad and then coming back to add the images later from a desktop computer. Manipulating images on an iPad is a pain in the neck anyway.
Due to content production issues on the iPad, I’ve chosen to go with a powerful netbook instead (11″ screen, Core 2 Duo 1.2 GHz processors).
We don’t have a recommended WordPress posting app for the iPad yet. If you could look around and let us know which one we should recommend that would be great.
Foliopress WYSIWYG should be fully compatible with a posting app as we include the full html in our code. We are also working to automatically convert entries posted with the outmoded and cumbersome WP AutoP missing paragraph tags.
14 years ago in reply to: WordPress Image CaptionsHi Jim,
Thanks for your kind words.
We are working on a one way converter of WordPress images into Foliopress WYSIWYG images on post open (it will be an option in preferences). We will set some intelligent defaults for converting Caption and the other attributes into static format. Once converted images will be straight html and easily managed. It should make people’s posts load more quickly with a lower server load as well (advanced aching can help even the current WordPress system though).
Let us know if you run into any other issues.
14 years ago in reply to: WordPress Image CaptionsHi Jim,
Thanks for the tips about our listing in the WordPress plugin database.
We do have an issue with captions as our solution is predicated on being compatible with all CMS not just WordPress. After you’ve published a photo with Foliopress WYSIWYG, you just have When you’ve added images with our plugin you can switch to another CMS with no loss, unlike WordPress’s built-in solution with it’s custom short tags.
Perhaps we can add a converter when opening posts but it will not be two way, it will be one way.
WordPress’s whole way of handling images is very database intensive, clunky and not portable (every included image or attachment is eleven database calls). Our way of handling images means that there are no database calls, even if you add twenty images to a single post. Plus our handling of SEO is much more complete (just name your image properly before you upload it).
14 years ago in reply to: Image Saturation LossHi Stephanie,
You are facing an issue of colour profiles. I think you are on a Mac and what you are finding is that you are saving images out with their colour profiles. Foliopress WYSIWYG seems to be deleting the colour profiles.
Historically correct web behaviour was to strip out colour profiles (as most browsers don’t respect them).
We might try to add colour profiles to a future version of Foliopress WYSIWYG. In the meantime, make sure you are exporting to web WITHOUT colour profiles. Let me know how you get on.
14 years ago in reply to: Image shortcodes not workinBTW, I’d recommend going forward your client use our image management. It’s much stronger for SEO and is far more resilient if s/he ever decided to change platforms. But we should still have legacy compatibility.
14 years ago in reply to: Image shortcodes not workinHi Chris,
We designed Foliopress WYSIWYG to work only with the real html image links. Most of our Typepad to WordPress clients come over with the images already inside the html (we clean it up on the way to be better styled with our default lightbox styling, with some very fancy regex).
Our main commercial clients are usually starting not from WordPress.
But I see the issue. We’ll try and do something about the parsing to pick up the WordPress default images.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. And thank you for the clear and detailed bug report.
14 years ago in reply to: Image manager not workingHi Alan,
NextGen Gallery is awful. In SEO terms, NGG is a disaster. The code inside is a real mess as well. No better way to slow down a WordPress install. You can build much more attractive galleries inside Foliopress WYSIWYG which work with Lightbox and virtually no server overhead (flat files served with the lightbox javascript executed locally on the visitor’s computer).
You could have saved a lot of your valuable time by sending us the $30 to fix your site and supported Open Source software while you were at it. We send OSS companies and programmers money all the time to make fixes in their software or just because we like the software. Sent $300 to the creator of WP Super Cache this month. Sent $10 yesterday to the guy who writes SiteSucker and we don’t even use SiteSucker much. If we start to use it some more, we’ll donate again.
In any case, thanks for the report on HostEurope.
14 years ago in reply to: Image manager not workingHi 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).
14 years ago in reply to: Image manager not workingHi 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.
14 years ago in reply to: Image manager not workingHi 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.
15 years ago in reply to: NextGen Gallery compatibilityHi 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
15 years ago in reply to: NextGen Gallery compatibilityHi 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.