Title: Vertikal Fast Frontend Microeditor
Author: Steven Snedker
Published: <strong>November 10, 2026</strong>
Last modified: November 10, 2026

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# Vertikal Fast Frontend Microeditor

 By [Steven Snedker](https://profiles.wordpress.org/snedker/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/microedit.1.0.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/microedit/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/microedit/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/microedit/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/microedit/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/microedit/)

## Description

Vertikal Fast Frontend Microeditor lets authorized users highlight a word, phrase
or sentence in a post and edit its **whole containing text block** (paragraph, heading,
list item, quote …) in a TinyMCE modal on the front end. The block’s inline HTML(
bold, italic, links) is kept. The originally highlighted phrase is shown pale yellow
in the editor; that highlight uses the CSS Custom Highlight API and is never saved.

Workflow:

 1. Select part of a paragraph, heading or other text block on a single post or page.
    Triple-click works too.
 2. The block that will be edited gets a light-grey background and a small **Edit**
    button appears.
 3. Edit the block in the modal (Visual or Code tab) and click **Save text**.
 4. The post is saved (with a revision), the page reloads, scrolls to the changed text
    and highlights it for a few seconds.

Only the edited block changes in the stored content: everything else, including 
Gutenberg block delimiters, stays byte-identical. In block content, a paragraph 
or heading split into several elements becomes several proper blocks, and a list
item can become several list items.

## Screenshots

[⌊Select text: the block that will be edited is shaded grey and an Edit button appears.⌉⌊
Select text: the block that will be edited is shaded grey and an Edit button appears
.⌉[

Select text: the block that will be edited is shaded grey and an Edit button appears.

[⌊The whole block opens in the editor with the selected phrase highlighted.⌉⌊The
whole block opens in the editor with the selected phrase highlighted.⌉[

The whole block opens in the editor with the selected phrase highlighted.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `microedit` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/` and activate it.
 2. Activation grants the `use_microedit` capability to Administrators and Editors.
    Grant it to other roles with a role editor if needed. Users also need ordinary 
    permission to edit the post.

## FAQ

### Which post types are supported?

All post types that support the editor. Use the `microedit_post_types` filter to
limit them.

### Why is there no Edit button for some selections?

The selection must be found, together with at least 12 characters of surrounding
text, in exactly one block of the stored (unfiltered) post content. Text generated
by shortcodes or filters, very short selections in short blocks, and ambiguous duplicates
are deliberately not editable. Set `LOG_DEBUG` to `true` in `js/microedit.js` to
see the reason in the browser console.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Vertikal Fast Frontend Microeditor” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Steven Snedker ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/snedker/)

[Translate “Vertikal Fast Frontend Microeditor” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/microedit)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/microedit/), check 
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/microedit/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/microedit/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/microedit/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * First WordPress version, ported from the Drupal module Microedit.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **9 hours ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.4 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.1.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [editing](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/editing/)[frontend editor](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/frontend-editor/)
   [Inline Edit](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/inline-edit/)[tinyMCE](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tinymce/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/microedit/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Steven Snedker ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/snedker/)

## Support

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