In the past couple of months I have started to install JCE editor as a standard on all my Joomla websites. In my opinion this is the best free WYSIWYG editor available for Joomla at the moment.
Of course, if you have another editor that you would like to punt - feel free to bring it under my attention.
I also haven't tried any commercial editors yet, so I cannot really say how they compare.
But for a free editor, JCE Editor is great value for money!
So what makes it so great?
The editor itself comes packed with all the standard features that you would expect from a good WYSIWYG editor: Redo and Undo buttons, bullets, numbering, indent, outdent, cut, copy, paste, align right, left and justified and table formatting.
And then the little extras: A paste button to paste from MsWord. For you that have ever pasted text directly from Word you will know that you get the most horrific formatting thrown in as a little present from Mr Gates. With this nifty button, it pastes clean HTML but retain your style formatting (e.g. Heading 1 becomes an <h1> tag) if you had any. Wonderful!
A paste button to paste plain text, without formatting. Again, if you are pasting from somewhere where you might unwittingly carry formatting along that you might not want, this button will save the day.
But the creme de la creme are the available plugins:
Firstly, the image manager. The image manager was the reason why I originally decided to use the editor and I have to admit shamefacedly that I do not actually use { mosimage } any more. The image editor allows you to upload an image on the fly from your local drive AND resize and optimize it while you are doing it. You have control over where to place your image. You can also create a thumbnail on the fly of your image.
Secondly, there is an advanced linking manager available. If you have ever tried to link to an internal article you will what a pain it is. The link manager brings up your articles as well as a search box to search for articles. You can link directly to any of your articles through this facility.
Frankly, there are a couple of other utilities available as well (such as the ability to have a Lightbox type popup for your images) that I haven't even tried yet.
Support for this editor is very active (and in fact, the author is a fellow South African - Ryan from www.cellardoor.za.net - thanks Ryan!).
How do you get use the editor?
Some basic steps:
Step 1: Download the latest version of the JCE Mambot here:
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