WP Edit and WordPress 3.9 (PLEASE READ)

There is a lot of confusion over WP Edit, WordPress 3.9, and Ultimate Tinymce. Please read this to get a clear understanding.

Ultimate Tinymce
This plugin was going into it’s third year on WordPress.org. It had been updated over 50 times.. and went through many version numbers.

Not every feature of Ultimate Tinymce was immediately available when it was initially released. Instead, I took feedback (both positive and negative) and turned it around and put it back into the plugin.

Only after two years, did it become the plugin it was just before the update to WordPress 3.9. Try to imagine what it must feel like to lose two years of work you had done for free.

Ultimate Tinymce Buttons
Many of the buttons available in Ultimate Tinymce were developed by 3rd party, open source, programmers. These are buttons such as the “YouTube”, “Clker”, “Advanced Link”, “Advanced HTML”, and many others.

I found them in the open source community… modified them to function within WordPress.. and pumped them out into Ultimate Tinymce. This was a fairly easy task for each button… only requiring 10 or 20 lines of code to be modified.

All these buttons were coded to work with TinyMCE version 3. They primarily used javascript.. and some were up to 5 and 6 years old.. but they still functioned in Tinymce version 3.

TinyMCE Version 4
Now, since the update to WordPress 3.9… they have included version 4 of the TinyMCE software. This update is extreme with TinyMCE.. and they have completely rewritten how their framework operates.

This change has blown out 90% of the addons that were originally written to work on the TinyMCE framework. They simply will not work.

And it’s not an easy change this time. It’s an entirely new framework. Every single line of code has to be evaluated and re-written.

WP Edit
With WP Edit… you are getting the default WordPress editor.. as it’s designed in version 3.9. You are also getting the additional buttons of TinyMCE that were removed by WordPress.

These removed buttons include items such as “Subscript”, “Superscript”, “HTML Code”, and others. They are freely available in WP Edit.. and nothing has been removed from their funtionality.

WP Edit Pro Buttons
Now, the buttons available in WP Edit Pro, are buttons I have taken the old code… stripped it completely down… and re-wrote the entire addon. This doesn’t happen over night. I’ve been working on these for six months. And I’m only halfway done.

I have locked myself in my basement… neglected my personal life and my family… and worked myself silly in an attempt to get these plugins updated in time for WP 3.9.

I had a difficult enough time getting the new buttons to replicate their old functionality, that I didn’t have time for hardly anything else. Hell, I haven’t even had time to properly document the plugins.

Conclusion
In conclusion; I’ve worked on WP Edit for two months. I could have completely ignored it.. and just made the pro version available. But I took the extra time… dealt with all the stress of knowing my premium customers were going to suffer because I had to spend time coding a free version… and got it available on WP.

I’m sorry the buttons have changed. I’m sorry the new updated has crippled old button functionality. But these are beyond my control.

The only thing within my control was to begin working feverishly on updates.. and get them released in proper working condition. It is in this regard I know I have excelled.

The Future
WP Edit will undergo updates. I can’t make the two years I spent developing Ultimate Tinymce magically work on a completely new framework. It will take time.

Thank you for reading.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-edit/