matstillo

Going back to the original problem, as wjnielsen says up above, this is a real problem for those of us who have set clients up with WordPress to provide CMS capabilities.

We’re not trying anything too exotic here. All I want is for clients to add pdf links to their home page, and thats it. But they need to be able to do this without having to go into html view, which they cannot do & will not want to do. Is there any progress on the bug trac as this must be affecting quite a few people?

I can confirm that stripping out the rel attributes does fix it, but I can’t expect some of my clients to understand a word of that. They will take one look at the code view & 1) freak out, then 2) probably ruin the whole page. Please can we get this resolved so that they can add these links while staying in the visual mode workflow?

Cheers!

Hi there, I found this thread whilst looking for a solution to the same thing, using skins with the JW Player.@pasber, I would like to support Saumin in saying this would be really usefull & if, when you have time, this could be implemented it would be fantastic! I use your great plugin for a customer site to do a fortnightly video journal, but after a recent design overhaul to the site, the player bar is not looking as good as it could.

In the meantime, one thing that could really help me style the existing player more effectively, would be the ability to change the colour of the highlight that sits of the bg colour, which at the moment is set to white. If I want a darker player, it starts to contrast badly with the white overlay. Is there any way to change this?

Thanks!

Just adding to cornhustlah’s request for implementing a snippet of the excerpt as well!

I was thinking I could do something with <?php comment_excerpt(); ?>
but it is not as straightforward as I hoped.

Did anybody find a plugin that doesn’t use a widget?

I’m just adding my support to maisteriharju on the whole issue for the visual editor. After initial tinkering, WordPress had seemed to be the ideal solution for me to be able to deploy sites for clients with a built in CMS capability.

As I was initially doing my tinkering in HTML mode I did not appreciate the massive shortcomings of the visual editor. Initially I was pleased to see that such an interface was available but now, after trying to work around the stripping of the code, regardless of which mode you are in, & trying to gloss over the glaring ‘bugs’ as the clients see them, I am beginning to to think that my time would have been better spent just teaching my clients basic HTML.

I agree totally with ‘Juniper Webcraft’ that we should be incorporating as much of the possible required styling in css, but that is surely going to just leave all of these problems with the interface exactly as they are. I am having even basic paragraph tags removed, which doesn’t leave you with much faith of your styling being picked up anyway!

I have read a few moderator posts saying to stop moaning & just turn off the visual editor, but how crap a solution is that? I can see the potential for WordPress to be a fantastic & accessible solution for clients & people who aren’t interested in being as techie as most of us, but by shutting them out, or worse, scaring them away with what in their eyes looks like an unstable solution for their website, is just bad sense. It’s a huge problem I’m surprised WP are not taking more seriously.

Anyway, I have to go now, to write guidance notes for a client to walk them through basic functions in the visual editor & for how to avoid it all going wrong on them!

PS. The Advanced TinyMCE editor has improved the situation greatly, but not only is is not perfect, but I do not want to have to send out a site that relies on too many plugins for what should be basic functionality.

Any news on solutions in the pipeline in future releases? I have every faith in WordPress that the problem will be repaired beyond reproach & we can all go home for tea & medals & look back and laugh at all this.