The “Performancing” folks just released a plugin for Firefox that provides a fully featured weblog editor, ala Flock. I’m trying it out now – it appears to talk to WordPress OK (well, if this made it to the blog, that is).
It appears to have a decent WYSIWYG editor, but the image embedding doodad doesn’t seem to have an upload utility – so I think you have to manually upload an image and then paste the URL into the image widget. Not fatal, but an “easy” improvement to the plugin. (I know, “easy” is oversimplifying it, since the plugin is aimed at being platform agnostic, so you’d have to have special cases for WP, MT, Blogger, etc…)
Update: Well, let’s see… the HTML it produces sucks badly. Editing a post appears to create a duplicate post (leaving the unedited original, and creating a new one with the edited version). Don’t think I’ll be using this one much…
Update 2: I was a little hard on the Performancing Firefox extension out of the gate. I wasn’t happy with the WYSIWYG HTML, but switching to “raw code” mode gives me essentially the stock WordPress text editor, which is what I’m used to. Also, I must have missed the “Publish as Edit” button – which is displayed right next to the “Publish to:” button – I don’t see how I could have missed that big button. Anyway, if this post was edited, then it works fine 🙂
Yup. that worked. OK, so now I see it as one step more advanced than the stock WP bookmarklets – since it gives you access to the post history so you can easily edit older posts. But, in WordPress, once you’ve been logged on, all posts anywhere you see them on your blog have an “edit” link, so it’s so easy to edit older posts anyway…
The “Performancing” folks just released a plugin for Firefox that provides a fully featured weblog editor, ala Flock. I’m trying it out now – it appears to talk to WordPress OK (well, if this made it to the blog, that is).
It appears to have a decent WYSIWYG editor, but the image embedding doodad doesn’t seem to have an upload utility – so I think you have to manually upload an image and then paste the URL into the image widget. Not fatal, but an “easy” improvement to the plugin. (I know, “easy” is oversimplifying it, since the plugin is aimed at being platform agnostic, so you’d have to have special cases for WP, MT, Blogger, etc…)
Update: Well, let’s see… the HTML it produces sucks badly. Editing a post appears to create a duplicate post (leaving the unedited original, and creating a new one with the edited version). Don’t think I’ll be using this one much…
Update 2: I was a little hard on the Performancing Firefox extension out of the gate. I wasn’t happy with the WYSIWYG HTML, but switching to “raw code” mode gives me essentially the stock WordPress text editor, which is what I’m used to. Also, I must have missed the “Publish as Edit” button – which is displayed right next to the “Publish to:” button – I don’t see how I could have missed that big button. Anyway, if this post was edited, then it works fine 🙂
Yup. that worked. OK, so now I see it as one step more advanced than the stock WP bookmarklets – since it gives you access to the post history so you can easily edit older posts. But, in WordPress, once you’ve been logged on, all posts anywhere you see them on your blog have an “edit” link, so it’s so easy to edit older posts anyway…
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Hmm… looks like the extension likes to add lots of funky spaces before the blog title and blog entry…
Small world – I live in Tuscany. Nice neighborhood, but traffic is pretty messed up during construction (as it is throughout the city right now…)
Thanks D’Arcy, we definately are loving the Rockies. So much so we are looking at houses tomorrow (tuscany and McKenzie Towne) 🙂
I am sure the title/spaces issue will get sorted in the next release.
Chris – I must have totally overlooked the “Publish as Edit” button. Not sure how I could have done that, given that it’s a big button right next to the “Publish to:” button 🙂
Thanks for the tip about the WYSIWIG code – switching to “raw code” view works great.
Have fun in the Rockies! I’ve subscribed to your blog (and the DSLR site) to keep up to date.
Jed – thanks. No need to defend it – the extension really is quite good. I was overly harsh in my initial assessment. I’ll play around with it a bit more…
Well just to defend it ‘a little’ 😉
The default code that is produces is with CSS (which is what Firefox’s midas uses) and in the options you can switch that to html (b, i, u, etc.).
One future feature will be advances more where you loose the WYSIWYG and have control over the type of formatting (XHTML/BBCODE/etc.)
Also, when you click on a history item, to edit it you need to click on the “Publish as Edit’ button, which will infact edit that post.
If that is not working for you, please contact me via my website above so I can fix that 😉
Cheers
-Jed
The image button just creates an IMG tag, we are looking at ways we can upload images but we are restricted by the blog APIs featureset and as you say the number of blog packages out there (they all seem to handle attachments differenty).
To publish an edited post hit the “publish as edit” button, not the publish button otherwise it posts as a new entry as you say. The HTML editing box uses built in mozilla functionality I believe, what problems did you find with the HTML?
Keep an eye on it, we only just released the first version and there will be another release as early as end of this week. There is a forum for submitting bug reports too :O)
(Well I say “we”, I am on vacation in Banff, heh)
Works perfectly with Drupal 🙂