As I’ve been looking at the various WordPress editor options I’ve also considered editing posts outside of WordPress. When I used Blogger, my longer posts (which isn’t very many) where done in Google Docs and then pasted into Blogger. That’s certainly an option here and going into this I had planned to keep doing that. I moved my old blogger posts using that method. I like the post management system within WordPress Draft posts can be saved and updated until their ready for posting. Everything is right there on the [...] Read the rest »
Why Not The Internal WordPress Editor
I’ve done a couple postings about alternatives to the built-in editor in WordPress. I figured I should summarize why I won’t be using it. Can’t paste external documents into a post. Button to quickly add the more tag The inability to cut/paste drove me away from it early, and there hasn’t been a reason to come back. Read the rest »
Why (or Why Not) the WYSI-WordPress Plugin
WYSI-Wordpress is a WordPress plugin that replaces the built-in rich text editor. It’s based on TinyMCE. After picking WordPress to be the primary content management system for my site (yea, it’s not a real CMS but it was simple and has what I want for now) I wanted to move some entries I had in blogger. There were only a few and when the import failed (no surprise as I’m using the blogger beta) I decide to go the same route used to get them into blogger, cut and paste. [...] Read the rest »
Why Dean’s FCKEditor for WordPress Plug-in
Dean’s FCKEditor for WordPress is a WordPress plug-in that uses the FCKeditor. The FCKeditor is an java based HTML editor. When setting up this site I quickly found that the built-in rich-text editor had some serious shortcomings that affected me. I found the WYSI-Wordpress plug-in and used that.. I then came across this plug-in which looked interesting. What initially attracted me to it was that I had seen the FCKeditor mentioned as used in other plug-ins and areas. This plug-in also uses the FCKeditor version current at this time so [...] Read the rest »
Grand Opening!!!
The OS Quest is now open in it’s new location. The fountain pen pages and photo galleries are still back at the old location. There’s nothing new posted but if your interested, they can be found here. The decision to move The OS Quest to a domain of it’s own (from .MAC) came about rather quickly a week ago. I picked Yahoo as the host for the simple reason of low cost, simple sign-up and all the buzzwords I was looking for. Becuase my ISP (SNET/SBC/AT&T or whatever name they’re [...] Read the rest »