Site Changes – New Plugin CKEditor Added

By Gene A., on October 2nd, 2010

Within the past few weeks I have migrated our on-line web shop to Drupal 6.x with the CKEditor module added for page editing. I have decided I like the ease of use brought by CKEditor for creating and editing web site pages under CMS. CKEditor is a powerful and feature-rich CMS editor that works very much like a word processor, such as OpenOffice.org Writer, AbiWord or KOffice Kword. As such it contributes to allowing a writer to concentrate on his writing, rather than HTML, PHP and other underpinnings of a web site. In any media content should be King. The medium to create and display that content should be unobtrusive and easy to use.

What does this mean to you, our readers? You get a small subset of the CKEditor features to create your comments. These features will allow reader comments to easily include bold, italics, bulleted or numbered lists and links to off-site URLs and images. Of course the other HTML code recognized by the standard WordPress comment editor still works too. If any of you want to see a specific CKEditor feature enabled on the comment editor, let us know. We will consider it, and may just add it for you.

Sat Aug 27 13:27:43 CDT 2011 – Reenable comments to test cache program with anonymous user comments.

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October 2, 2010 at 3:34 pm · Reply

Testing CKEditor bold. Testing CKEditor italics.

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CKEditor
Numbered
List

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Bullet List

Testing CKEditor URL Link Creator.
Testing CKEditor image insertion and linking .

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October 2, 2010 at 5:01 pm · Reply
1. This is
2. a numbered
3. list
- This is
- a bulleted
- list
- Gene
  
  October 3, 2010 at 1:22 pm · Reply
  
  Test following edit to the theme’s css.php per suggestions from BytesForAll theme forums.
  
  Bulleted list:
  - one
  - two
  - three
  Numbered list:
  1. one
  2. two
  3. three

Gene

October 2, 2010 at 5:02 pm · Reply

Okay, it appears I need to do some research to allow those few CKEditor features that do not work in comments. Stay tuned.

Gene

October 2, 2010 at 5:53 pm · Reply

This appears to be a problem with the Atahualpa 3.5.3 theme we are using. I notified the theme developers at their forum. We’ll see if this can be straightened out soon.