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

[Rick Maltese]

Hi Marcus

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Marcus Pope <Marcus.Pope at springbox.com> wrote:
> Hey Rick,
> I just tried it on a fresh installation of wordpress with the downloaded package from wordpress.org and it worked for me.  Can you look at your error log and send me the warnings / errors that were generated?
>
> Also, if you can send me some info about your setup that would help too. (php version, wp version, os etc)
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Rick Maltese
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 12:35 AM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Two new, long-overdue plugins to make your wordpress life a little easier...
>
> 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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