Comments on: WordPress Visual Editor - Do you Use It?

By: luggage

luggage — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:03:23 +0000

I’m a fairly basic guy and so I stick to the visual editor. Why not? I don’t really add much fanciness to my posts because I don’t need to. Simple is better. The WYSIWG editor is fine for most normal people, and I’m one of them. Even though I can do some HTML, I don’t ever feel as if I really need to. Besides, pushing buttons is more fun! I think, anyway. Although they can improve it, the Wordpress WYSIWG editor is certainly one of the better ones around by a long shot. I’ve had to endure some real monsters before…

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By: Matt Dawson

Matt Dawson — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:17:27 +0000

I’m using Windows Live Writer, but am finding the xHTML it generates to be flawed and requires repair in the Wordpress text editor afterwards. e.g. leaving paragraph close tags where no opening tag exists. I’ve followed your advice and have disabled the Wordpress visual editor (which I didn’t use and kept on converting div tags to paragraph tags - annoying) and will see if that makes my posting experience any easier.

By: John

John — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:39:32 +0000

I have used Wordpress as a WYSIWYG for a while. I have been working with the text editor disabled so I only edit the HTML. On another site I was working on recently, I set up Wordpress as a CMS. The problem is someone else who doesn’t know HTML needs to edit the site. If they enable the WYSIWYG editor, it really messes up my HTML code. I would be fine if I could get it to float the images properly around the text but after saving and editing the page, it strips out various or tags which messes everything up. Are there any plugins to remedy this?

By: sisifodichoso

sisifodichoso — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:09:19 +0000

I never use the visual editor. I always use etiquetags a bigger version of quicktags, with more tags and nicer buttons

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By: Jabapyth

Jabapyth — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:51:33 +0000

I never use the WYSIWYG: it doesn’t give me enough control over my posts.

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By: Dirk

Dirk — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:07:05 +0000

Nope. It’s kinda good, but i like to do my own code.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:00:50 +0000

Mostly the basic editor, it’s easier for dealing with photos etc. but I do have a flip over to the Visual when I can’t be arsed to type in a load of code. I think they are both good but the basic is preferable.

By: Ron K Jeffries

Ron K Jeffries — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:50:11 +0000

I can not stand the WordPress visual editor. Guess I’ll try Textile Wrapper.
-ron

By: bubazoo

bubazoo — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:32:43 +0000

I use both also, with the default being the visual. The only reason being, I just don’t care to take the time to put in a bunch of formatting just to make a post. I like to “quickly” post, not sit there and edit and reedit and reedit, you might as well design a whole page if your going to do all that.

I just think the visual editor needs some work, like more options to be able to block text on one side, a picture on the other. doing that is not always an easy task while still keeping xhtml formatting intact, especially when plugin writers break xhtml formatting as it is. I mean, normally I just write stuff in and thats it. the only time I ever have to format is when adding a picture alongside text, only because you gotta format it so the picture doesn’t display too big and the text will align next to a photo, thats about the only time I ever format anyway, so if they can fix that in the visual editor I’d be happy.

By: Sudar

Sudar — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:37:51 +0000

First I use the Visual Editor for formatting and then later view the HTML generated to make small changes. I enable the View HTML button using this trick (http://sudarmuthu.com/blog/2007/02/11/wordpress-21-more-editing-options-in-wysiwyg-editor.html)

By: Daniel J. Summers

Daniel J. Summers — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:21:15 +0000

I usually use the visual editor (TinyMCE) on my personal blogs - I occasionally switch to “Code” view to put classes on a few tags, or insert an HTML entity. On my tech blog (linked off my name below), I pretty much use the basic editor. Of course, since I post code there quite a bit, I’m sure that’s normal. I’ve even had to go into that one and tell WordPress not to try to correct invalid nested XHTML. (I’ve also integrated TinyMCE into another web site I’ve developed - the users love it, because they can make it look “pretty”, and it displays back “pretty” as well!)

I use wp-syntax and Code Markup to highlight code on my tech blog.

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By: adam

adam — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:17:12 +0000

Yeah, I never use the visual editor. It’s good for people who don’t know basic html though. I’m glad it’s installed so n00bs don’t keep pestering me.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:43:28 +0000

I don’t use the WYSIWYG Editor (and have to switch it off altogether) because it simply breaks the code very often (for instance when including youtube HTML code snippets)…

By: tabrez

tabrez — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:41:57 +0000

I use the basic text editor because WYSIWYG generates very badly formatted HTML and it then becomes a pain to edit the HTML directly.

Even the basic HTML editor doesn’t give full access to raw HTML(’s and ’s are automatically added) which kind of annoys sometimes.

I use IG syntax highlighter plugin to syntax colour the programming code.

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wisselend tij — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:57:49 +0000

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