The success of WordPress has been due in part to its ease of use, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. The Front End Editor plugin by scribu (Silviu-Cristian Burcă), is likely to delight your church office staff because it will not only make it easier to edit content on your WordPress church site, it will save them time too.
By integrating a really nice inline visual editor, called Aloha, you can edit your page or post content in situ, without having to visit the dashboard. It should work with any theme and what is really nice, unlike the WordPress visual editor, it uses your themes styles. Well, that’s what an inline editor does!
Once installed, logged-in users will see a little edit tab appear when they move their cursor over an editable content area, such as a post or page. Other editable content includes widgets (the widget options appears in situ!), titles, comments and other fields.
Front End Editor - Edit Tab
Click on the little tab and up pops the Aloha toolbar and you can start editing your content.
Front End Editor - Edit mode
It is pretty simple, but could transform your blogging and content creation workflow. It certainly adds to ease of use of WordPress, and there must be a pretty strong case for including this or something like it in the core WordPress platform.
I installed this plugin on XI and it did something weird to the latest posts widget – some posts didn’t show the image and instead showed the underlying code. I testded it half a dozen times and every time was the same.
I have a screen shot of the results.
Deactivated the plugin and the problem disappeared.
Weird eh?
I installed this plugin on XI and it did something weird to the latest posts widget – some posts didn’t show the image and instead showed the underlying code. I testded it half a dozen times and every time was the same.
I have a screen shot of the results.
Deactivated the plugin and the problem disappeared.
Weird eh?
Yes, the plugin is not the most reliable I’m finding. There are other solutions on their way I think and other plugins around.
Yes, the plugin is not the most reliable I’m finding. There are other solutions on their way I think and other plugins around.
I haven’t had any issues on our church site with this plugin. The only thing I allowed to be edited from the front end was the Content and Excerpt. I turned everything else off. Had some weird things with blog titles and a few other glitches. Seems to work ok with just Content and Excerpt though. Good way to make some quick fixes right from the front end. I wouldn’t use it for any major editing myself.