A new release with a lot of small but noticeable improvements:
Two new editable fields
In version 1.3, you can also edit your site’s title and description. You won’t go changing those very often, but it’s nice to know you can. 
Skinable WYSIWYG editor
The rich text editor now respects image alignment. What’s more, you can make the editor window look however you want. Just add your own CSS into a file named front-end-editor.css and place it in your theme’s directory.
If you’re a JavaScript ninja, you can go even further and tweak it’s behaviour using event triggers baked into the new version. See /inc/editor/editor.js.
Slug updating
When you edit a post, the post’s slug will also be updated, when appropriate. For example, say you have a post titled “My Greatest Post Ever”.
If the slug is the default one - “my-greatest-post-ever” – and you change the title, the slug will also be updated.
But, if you had previously set the slug to “greatest-post”, it will remain unchanged when you edit the title.
Other improvements
- option to disable highlighting
- compatibility with the postThumbs plugin
- added Polish translation
- better XHTML markup
Hi Scribu,
I’m seeing massive problems with your latest update 1.3
1. It looks like there’s a double insertion of wp_head, as my whole (head) section is completely duplicated. Also: the (title)(/title) html tags are completely gone when I view the page’s source code.
2. The field options won’t stick. I only want the arcticle’s content to be edited, so I deselect all, check the corresponding checkbox and click Save Changes. If I later return to Front End Editors’ plugin options page, all checkboxes are checked again (and all fields are editable on the front side, which I explicitly don’t want)
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin several times and even deleted the corresponding options from the wp_options table with CleanOptions, but I keep on seeing this behaviour.
Your help would be much appreciated. I’ve deinstalled the plugin for now
1. Could you provide your header.php file or at least the HTML markup before and after the plugin is activated? My email is scribu@gmail.com
2. I was able to reproduce this problem.
Should have a fix soon.Fixed in 1.3.1.url slug is working now..
but..when i click on the post title its still using the old url which obviously doesnt not exist anymore. that means i still have to refresh the page.
After clicking once, it should redirect you to the new URL.
its redirecting to the old URL.
Hi! I love your plugin & enjoyed using it.
However, for security reasons, I had to switch on SSL for the Admin-area by adding
define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);
to the wp-config.php file. Since then, the Front-End Editor is unable to load. It just displays the throbber-icon, waiting to load the WYSIWYG-Editor, but it never shows.
Is this fixable?
I don’t know. I’ll look into it.
In my opinion the front-end editor plugin is one the best plugins I have seen this year!
I have two feature requests: I would like to add new posts with the front-end editor and to edit the post categories. Can/will you make this?
You can already add posts from the front-end with the PostHaste plugin.
As for editing categories, two reasons why it wasn’t added until now:
- it would be really slow if you have a lot of categories
- the interface takes up quite alot of screen space
That being said, I’m not against adding these features in the future.
Greetings!
I can’t turn on the (1.3 ver) plugin. WP 2.8.4 HU says:
Can anyone help me, whats this problem?
Thanks!
I can’t reproduce your problem. Do you have any other plugin of mine installed?
The plugin duplicates the call to wp header, causeing css and js to load twice.
Disable the site title & description field.
I have installed and activated the plug-in. When I scroll over portions of my blog that can be edited with this plug-in, the text is highlighted as it should be. However, when I double click to make a change, nothing happens. Help?
Read the FAQ.
Nice on the option for turning off highlighting but it’s still displaying the [empty] text when there are no tags / making it hard to test if a post has no tags due to wrapping the empty response.
I guess I should add a setting for that.
Hi there. I have encountered a small problem with this plugin, even with the most recent update.
I have a simple text and html widget on my sidebar,
and I cannot force a line break using tags.
Every time the page refreshes, the tags are deleted automatically.
Any help?
In the widget admin section, make sure you check “Automatically add paragraphs” to your text widget.
Perfect! Thanks for the tip.
Front-end Editor works great in general but it does not go well with another plugin called wp-postviews (http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-postviews)
When I logged in, the widget post list would appear like “Family DVD authoring in three steps ” but when I log out of the blog, the display is normal.
How to fix this?
I have to use code format:
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