I’ve been having issues with the editing interface on this blog for a week or more, because I recently found out that the built-in rich text editor has some “hidden” buttons I’d like to use. I had been using a perfectly good plugin called ecto, a cross-platform desktop publishing program.
Meanwhile, I got suckered into trying the built-in editor because of the extended toolbar, but it was screwing up DIV tags wrapped around images. I think David has now applied the fix I found online, and then I made sure to clear private data. Here goes:
The image above is wrapped in 2 DIVs in order to apply a drop shadow. When I use the built-in RTE, will it strip it out, or has we can applied Tim Rohrer’s fix correctly?
Why yes, Socrates, it appears we can has!
And now, a new plug-in named AddQuicktag comes into play… visible only on the Code/Quicktags screen I can now add custom bits of code, including my beloved drop shadows and float clearing DIV tags.
Eureka! It works – the image is a drop shadow floated to the left, so the text wraps to the side. Previously, I could do this with some difficulty using the WordPress editor or with the plugin editor, and was relying on yet a third piece of software, BBCode, to apply it using Firefox. Which also is not available to me when away from my home computer… got that?
I can do this sort of thing easily with ecto, of course, but can’t do it that easily when not using my home computer. Now I can do this stuff anywhere (translation: on any computer where Firefox is not an option), and this has implications for starting up the old church weblog again and applying it (finally!) to the OneBreadOneBody website.
Now maybe I can get some actual writing done, instead of incessant “tinkering with the blog” posts for a while.
