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December 18, 2007

A few days ago I released a plugin that caused a problem for a few people that used it. It turned off the WYSIWYG editor in the post screen. I haven’t been able to replicate the problem, and I hope my update resolved it, but aside from this it gave me a pretty healthy reminder that people use tools in different ways.

When I write my posts I type the HTML manually. In fact I often write in Notepad first and just paste it in. Apart from my first few posts I have never used any WYSIWYG editor; I have probably been conditioned to think in code and so the editors just don’t do it for me.

This means it is easy for me to forget that the option even exists.

I would like you to tell me how you write your posts. The poll is below:

[poll=3]

If you have established a particular workflow, e.g. write in notepad then paste in, then it would be cool to share it with the class.

Thank you.

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Rewrite specific category wordpress?
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Rewrite specific category wordpress?
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Fun wordpress theme?
no comment
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Html 5 Gallery
Html 5 tabs?
6 comments
page 1305
Creating Custom Urls
Addactiontemplateredirect?
6 comments
page 80
Wordpress Chat
Wordpress chat?
3 comments
page 1308
Six Million Ways To Die Choose One
Very simply way of die?
14 comments
page 1128
Post Image The Easy Peasy Way
Wordpress show image size in posts?
26 comments
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Quick N Dirty Admin Login Screen
Loginhead?
no comment
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Html 5 Gallery
Photo gallery html 5?
6 comments
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Post Image The Easy Peasy Way
Cant select large image post wordpress?
26 comments
page 1065
Html 5 Gallery
Wordpress html5 player plugin?
6 comments
page 1305
Updating Code Snippets Here
Wordpress themes fun?
no comment
page 1338
Using Your Own Url Shortener
Create your own short url wordpress htaccess?
4 comments
page 1190
Why I Ditched Disqus
Intense debate turn off comments on pages?
5 comments
page 1175
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Fun with wordpress?
no comment
page 1338
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Khottie11?
no comment
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Khottie11?
no comment
page 1338
Wpunlimited The Ultimate Wordpress Theme
Rocket themes cant get wordpress sample content?
3 comments
page 1141
Html 5 Gallery
Wordpress html 5?
6 comments
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Post Image The Easy Peasy Way
Php image links array?
26 comments
page 1065
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Wordpress html5 plugin?
no comment
page 1338
Does Wordpress Need A Search Function Any More
Wordpress search function?
11 comments
page 610
Using Your Own Url Shortener
How to create a url shortener?
4 comments
page 1190
Html 5 Gallery
Wordpress html5?
6 comments
page 1305
Why I Ditched Disqus
Wordpress hosted disqus?
5 comments
page 1175
Post Image The Easy Peasy Way
Wordpress theimage?
26 comments
page 1065
Wordpress 25 Exif Fields
Y8 love?
12 comments
page 230
Are Child Themes The Best Option
Thesis child themes?
15 comments
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Fun With Theme Widgets
Wp widget interesting?
24 comments
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Saturday, 8am
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 Albuquerque Homes

I am used to coding by hand in DW and my husband uses DW in both design and code mode. We have templates for different posts stored in DW now and edit as needed. Saves us both a ton of time. I have to disable the rich editor as I embed photo shows that don’t work otherwise. – Ashley

Friday, 3pm
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 Iva

The first thing I do when I install WP somewhere is disable the rich text editor, the only thing I need are some XTHML shortcuts and the possibility to wrap a tag around what I’d written…I guess I’m simple.

By the way, I love it how the text field I’m writing in changes colour when I write in it, in not such a usual fashion :)

Friday, 2pm
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 Danny

I know some people are big fans of Live Writer for posting. I keep meaning to try it, but have never gotten around to it. I don’t use the WYSIWYG either…

Tuesday, 6pm
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 Andrew Rickmann

Christoph, you are definitely right about the testing. It was a lapse on my part that it didn’t occur to me. Andrea makes a good point, I think it is important to compartmentalise code so that it only acts when it is needed.

Di, I feel the same. I just don’t feel in control when something else is writing my code for me.

Tuesday, 2pm
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 Di

I tend to disable the Tiny MCE for my own blog, being a designer I don’t like the code some editors produce. That said Tiny is better for that than FCK. God I hated the rubbish that put out. Unfortunately I don’t have the option to disable the editor for client sites.

Tuesday, 2pm
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 andrea_r

I use both alternately. :)

I have noticed though, that a javascript conflict in a plugin will knock that RTE right off.

Tuesday, 1pm
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 Christoph Voigt

For compatibilities sake TinyMCE and the built in “code” view should always be supported and tested against. FCKEditor isn’t supported by most plugins and writing in textile might be nice to be able to copy&paste between different applications/blogs, but is rarely used in WordPress.