Best WYSIWYG Editor for Wordpress?

Cary Gordon listuser at CHILLCO.COM
Fri Apr 19 12:36:59 EDT 2013


Busted.

My favorite: "I don't always test my code, but when I do, I do it in
production."


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Pat Rapp <pat.rapp at fairportlibrary.org>wrote:

>  Is it just me, or did anybody else read this line in the voice of the
> Dos Equiis guy?****
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> “We don't always use WYSIWYG editors, but when we do, we use CKEditor.”***
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> ;-)****
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *Cary Gordon
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 18, 2013 7:29 PM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] Best WYSIWYG Editor for Wordpress?****
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> Neither is better. They each offer more options that you want to enable,
> so you might as well choose based on aesthetics. We don't always use
> WYSIWYG editors, but when we do, we use CKEditor. Our clients seem to like
> its aesthetics better than those of TinyMCE.****
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> I strongly suggest that you allow only the tools that are absolutely
> necessary, usually bold, italic, image, link, and numbered and unnumbered
> lists. More will only let your editors break usability and accessibility.*
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> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Kelly Zhu <zhu.kelly at ymail.com> wrote:***
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> I think ckeditor is the successor to fckeditor.  - Kelly****
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> *From:* Sigrid Kelsey <sigridkelsey at GMAIL.COM>
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:49 PM
> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] Best WYSIWYG Editor for Wordpress?****
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> We use Wordpress for some of our websites.  The staff maintaining some of
> these sites want to use a WYSIWYG but aren't happy with Wordpress's.  I've
> found Wordpress plugins to make FCKEditor and TinyMCE work with it, and I'm
> not sure which is better, or if there are even better options.****
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> Does anyone on this list have any recommendations for the best Wordpress
> plugins, or any other suggestions?  The staff does not want to learn html
> or css, and has been frustrated with aligning images, and they way the
> editor deletes "behind the scenes" code.****
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> I want to do my best not to frustrate the staff further by installing
> something else that isn't as user friendly as they'd like.****
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> Thanks in advance,
> Sigrid****
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