[wp-hackers] Two new, long-overdue plugins to make your wordpress life a little easier...

[Rick Maltese]

Thanks for the effort.

Just tried to install and preserved-html-editor-markup won't activate.

Rick Maltese

>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Marcus Pope <Marcus.Pope at springbox.com>wrote:
>
>> In the past I have lightly managed and tweaked some wordpress installs
>> and as a result I was put on a project at my current company Springbox
>> that was a full site development.  Through the course of that project
>> and then two more I quickly realized two things:
>>
>>
>> 1.       Wordpress is an amazing platform for rapid web development
>>
>> 2.       The use of Absolute URLs, and how poorly the Visual / HTML Editor
>> behaved made it a nightmare to work with as a professional platform.
>>
>> Blown away by the dozens of posts from Core WP developers that root
>> relative urls are not possible, and after trying to do all of their
>> suggestions to resolve my problem with none of them actually working I
>> almost gave up on the platform entirely.  And the ludicrous concept
>> that in order to prevent your html markup from being corrupted by the
>> visual tab you should just disable the visual tab altogether was
>> almost the nail in the coffin.
>>
>> Alas, I don't shy away from a challenge and having over 15 years of
>> experience with enterprise web development, and over 5 years of
>> experience with developing my own WYSIWYG editors and extending others
>> like tinyMCE, fckedit I realized these problems were not unsolvable.
>> So I've spent the last three weeks hacking away at the problem and
>> here's what I have to offer
>> you:
>>
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/preserved-html-editor-markup/
>>
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/root-relative-urls/
>>
>> They are not perfect, and I will spend more time polishing them up.
>> They do work as advertised, as we have upgraded our past projects to
>> work with them.  And ultimately they seem to be the only solutions to
>> top requests from the community for years, which kind of shocks me.
>>
>> Combined they actually make wordpress a dream to work with - sure it
>> still has its quirks here and there, but the root-relative-urls plugin
>> even accounts for links and media as they are embedded into the now
>> usable wysiwyg/html editor.
>>
>> Check them out, let me know what you think.  Ideally I'd re-architect
>> the whole damn components in the WP core, but alas you know how that
>> goes :D  They were sort of sponsored by Springbox - the company I work
>> for - in that I got to use my free time at work to create them, and I
>> put in a few hours a week at night (like tonight) to finish them up.
>> We don't have a landing page on springbox.com yet, nor do we even have
>> a support infrastructure for handling requests, but I'll do my best to
>> keep up with the questions and the projects.
>>
>> Being a service-based agency, product development isn't a core
>> strategy so I might be non-responsive at times when workloads are high
>> - clients first of course - but I'm now personally vested in this
>> platform and would like to see it continue to excel.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marcus Pope
>> Senior Software Developer
>> Springbox.com
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