May 05, 2003

Well, this could be sweet... WYSIWYG editing in Movable Type

Found a piece on the MT support forums about adding WYSIWYG editing in the Movable Type editor. Sure enough. A free download and a changed perl template later I have loads of buttons and gadgets in my editor.

Works like a charm. How did I do this? Check out the Wiki Knowledgebase.

So if this works allright I now should be able to

  • make
  • bulleted
  • lists...

Make words fat, underlined or italic...

Center paragraphs...

Add links, and tables, and images, and... Yeah. Feels great. This will be a great help for editors not so knowledgeable in HTML.

This is a
table

I think I will upload my edited template to the MT Wiki. :)

Questions to check out first:

  • What happens when I edit existing posts? Will they collapse since they don't contain HTML-code?
  • Will the styles from the editor override my site styles? Probably...
  • What happens with linebreaks in textarea? need to switch off Text Formatting by MT? Yes!
Posted by manne at May 5, 2003 11:53 PM | TrackBack

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Note to self: What I REALLY should do is learn more about that TrackBack-thingie.

Also, add "backwards navigation" in the PhonoPhoto templates like Cristina suggested, so you can browse up in the PhonoPhoto chronology (without using the browser back button) and not only down.

AND fix the import program while still in beta mode to only add fresh email-photos from the POP-account and not rebuild entire index from scratch every time. Really no need to do that now that the groundwork functions like a charm.

Posted by: Manne at May 6, 2003 10:59 AM
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