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User:Converting2wp/WYSIWYG

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On Hold

This is on hold. There are two plugins - TinyMCE Advanced and Advanced TinyMCE that work with 2.2 (+?) that seem to satisfy my requirements and respond to the comments made in the Ideas section. I'm currently experimenting with the latter.

See also the TinyMCE page.

See also a more recently updated list: User:Bentrem/EditorScratch

Overview/Motivation

I'm using WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System) for small groups who wish to share the responsibility of editing the content. These folks are somewhat tech-savvy, but generally don't have experience with editing web pages. They aren't particularly concerned with formatting -- content is key-- but they do sometimes want to style their text in simple ways. The group is large enough that a server-side solution for WYSIWYG editing is preferable, but client-side solutions may be okay in some cases. I've been following some of the WYSIWYG WordPress discussions for awhile now, and would like to help pull them together into a coherent piece of documentation for those who are new to the platform.

This page is (obviously) not yet a real "draft" -- just a collection of "notes to the author(s)".

Discussions

Mentions in the Codex

  • Roadmap - updated March 2006 with items that are in 2.1
  • TinyMCE - Info on adding buttons. Is this all that's really needed?
  • FAQ Forum Hot Topics (not updated since early 2006)

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Other strategies

Three of the top 18 "popular" ideas deal with this

Development plans?

There doesn't seem to be a visible development discussion. All I could find was User:Matt/WYSIWYG Last updated June 2005

Support tickets

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Outline

  1. Overview
    1. Landscape of open source server side editors
    2. Landscape of client side editors (extend this)
    3. Some discussion of the tradeoffs
  2. Server-side WYSIWYG options
    1. Other plugins
    2. Roll your own
  3. Client-side WYSIWYG options
    1. Post-to-blog and friends -- covered in Weblog_Client
    2. Pasting from generic HTML editors