Front-end Editor
Contributors: scribu, Jotschi
Tags: inline, editor, edit-in-place, visual, wysiwyg
Requires at least: 3.2
Tested up to: 3.6
Stable tag: 2.3.1
License: GPLv3 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Edit content inline, without going to the admin area.
Description
Front-end Editor is a plugin that lets you make changes to your content directly from your site. No need to load the admin backend just to correct a typo.
It makes the same capability checks, so that if a user isn't allowed to edit something in wp-admin, they aren't allowed to edit it in the front-end either.
You can edit posts, pages, custom post types, comments, widgets and many more elements.
Goals:
- save as many trips to the backend as possible
- compatible with any theme, out of the box
- light and fast
Support and development:
Support is handled by the lovely designsimply.
I am not developing the plugin anymore; only applying the patches that other people send via Github.
Credits:
Links: Documentation | Plugin News | Author's Site
Installation
See http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins
Frequently Asked Questions
Error on activation: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected..."
Make sure your host is running PHP 5. The only foolproof way to do this is to add this line to wp-config.php (after the opening <?php tag):
var_dump(PHP_VERSION);
I can't see the edit buttons
- Make sure you're logged in and have the appropriate capabilities.
- See Common Mistakes in Themes.
- Check for JavaScript errors.
Can you change the wysiwyg editor to TinyMCE?
No, because TinyMCE is anything but tiny and would take a long time to load.
Also because I couldn't get it to work.
Does it work with WP Super Cache?
To avoid problems with WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache, I recommend disabling caching for logged-in users.
Screenshots
- The tooltip
- Editing the post title and content
- Editing the categories widget
- Changing a theme image
- The settings page
Changelog
2.3.2
- Aloha: make the Format tab appear before the Insert tab again
2.3.1
- update to Aloha 0.23.12
- add placeholder for post thumbnails
- fix changing thumbnails to a newly uploaded image. props adrichey
- update translations: Polish (props toszcze) and Estonian (props petskratt).
- added Simplified Chinese translation (props 倡萌)
2.3
- make Save/Cancel buttons hover in place of the Edit button
- allow editing multiple elements simultaneously again
- enhanced JavaScript API
- switch from Coco to CoffeeScript
- fix security exploit caused by Aloha demo file and update to Aloha 0.20.16
- more info
2.2.1
- update to Aloha 0.20.6
- enable align buttons in Aloha
- enable highlighting of elements editable by Aloha
- add
'fee_rich_clean' filter
- fix 'type' parameter for
editable_option()
2.2
- introduce groups of editable elements
- introduced
fee_insert_dummy_post() for creating posts
- prevent warnings caused by faulty widgets
- update to Aloha 0.20.0
- switch to Coco
- more info
2.1.3
- fix widget warning
- update translations
2.1.2
- show Aloha toolbar immediately after clicking 'Edit'
- properly handle hierarchical taxonomies edited via text input
- text widgets: edit title and content individually again
- fix bug that prevented saving empty content via Aloha
- fix bug where wpautop wasn't applied to 'rich' custom fields
2.1.1
- added option to disable dropdown for categories
- added
single_term_title field
- set field name as title attribute on placeholders
- use background color as base for ajax loading overlay
- fixed issue with right-aligned images in content
- fixed author description editing
- fixed problem with oEmbeds
2.1
- switched to Aloha Editor
- made Edit button follow mouse vertically and removed top border
- better image handling
- other bugfixes
- more info
2.0.1
- removed right and bottom borders when hovering
- fixed incorrect dimensions in Webkit browsers
- fixed invalid placeholding when content is '0'
2.0
- replaced double-click action with an 'Edit' overlay
- added dropdown for editing terms in hierarchical taxonomies
- introduced
front_end_editor_wrap filter
- introduced
fee_cleditor_css filter
- introduced
fee_cleditor_height filter
- more info
1.9.3
- switched to CLEditor
- fixed encoding issues with paragraph editing
- fixed image fields handling
- fixed typo which made spinner not show
- check
'edit_theme_options' capability instead of 'edit_themes'
- more info
1.9.2.1
1.9.2
- nicEdit: limit height to window height
- nicEdit: Google Docs like link tooltip
- nicEdit: expose 'bgcolor' button
- iPhone style tooltip
- make
the_tags() work no matter what args are used
- apply
esc_attr() to data attributes
1.9.1
- re-added nicEdit to text widgets
- nicEdit: img button opens WordPress media thickbox
- nicEdit: translatable buttons
- nicEdit: extra buttons available in the settings page
- load nicEdit or suggest.js in parallel with first edit
- display spinner on top of editable area
- various bugfixes
1.9
- full widget editing
- custom post type support
- new editable field: term description
- more robust paragraph editing
- more robust double-click handling
- nicEdit: button management from the admin
- removed "Reset the post date on each edit" option
- more info
1.8
- added tooltip
- restyled save/cancel buttons
- fixed widget editing
- exposed JavaScript field types
- more info
1.7.2
- fixed narrow textarea problem
- fixed IE8 error
- nicEdit: included upload plugin
1.7.1
- made date reset optional
- better lightbox detection
1.7
- new editable fields: post thumbnails & arbitrary options
- nicEdit: added font-family and font-color buttons
- nicEdit: made configuration filterable
- dropped Growfield from textareas
- load CSS only when needed
- standardized CSS ids and classes
- renamed hooks from
'front_ed_*' to 'front_end_editor_*'
- fixed: when editing the post content, the post date isn't updated
- fixed: when editing tags, the input bounces to a new line
- fixed: after editing linked post title, the title is not linked anymore
- fixed:
editable_post_meta() doesn't work outside The Loop
- fixed: warning when a NULL is passed to
FEE_Field_Base::wrap()
- more info
1.6.1
1.6
- new editable field: post categories
- added editing of custom fields with multiple values
- added editing of any widget title
- improved script loading
- added placeholder to
editable_post_meta
- fixed issue with comment paragraphs
- fixed issues with the $post global
- more info
1.5.1
- fixed auto-upgrade error
- added German translation
1.5
- new editable field: theme images
- switched to NicEdit
- don't remove blockquotes when editing a single paragraph
- better handling of text widgets
- compress JS & CSS
- compatibility with Ajaxed WordPress plugin
- added ES translation
- more info
1.4
- new editable fields: category title and tag title
- added $echo parameter to
editable_post_meta()
- easier way to restrict editable content
- don't load CSS & JS if the current user can't edit any of the fields
- switched from Autogrow to Growfield (fixes IE compatibility)
- added Georgian translation
- more info
1.3.3
- fixed duplicate header error
1.3.2
1.3.1
- settings page bugfix
- updated translations
1.3
- new editable fields: site title & site description
- the rich editor respects .alignleft etc.
- ability to add extra css to the rich editor via front-end-editor.css
- added Polish translation
- use id="" instead of rel=""
- postThumbs compatibility
- more info
1.2.1
1.2
- made author description editable
- yellow background while hovering over editable field
- experimental wysiwyg autogrow
- hopefully valid xHTML
- HTML code is cleaned up before saving
- added Portuguese translation
- more info
1.1.4
- fix white screen error for non-admins
1.1.3
- css bugfix
- added Belarusian translation
- updated italian translation
1.1
- new editable field: post terms
- usability improvements
- added Turkish translation
- more info
1.0.6
- fixed links with
target="_blank"
- inputs and textareas are focused after double-clicking
- added Russian translation
1.0.5
- added align buttons, fixed autogrow issue
the_title and the_tags improvements- added Swedish translation
1.0
0.9
- new editable field: post custom fields
- more info
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5