Straight from the lab, we bring you the latest and greatest in front-end editing:
Swap theme images
Currently, there is no easy way to change an image from your theme. You have to either override the image file through FTP or locate the code in your theme and modify it.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just double-click on the image you want to change and then just do it, without leaving the page you’re on?
Good news: now you can, with a little bit of tweaking. To make an image editable, you have to make a one-time edit to your theme.
I chose the Cutline theme as an example:
In header.php, I replaced this:
<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/header_1.jpg" width="970" height="140" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> header image 1" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> header image 1" />
with this:
<?php editable_image('header-1',
get_bloginfo('template_url') . '/images/header_1.jpg',
array('width' => 970, 'height' => 140, 'alt' => get_bloginfo('name')));
?>
The first argument is the image name
The second argument is the default URL
The third argument is optional and it’s used for adding extra attributes to the element.
Now, when I double-click on the header image, the Media Library box pops up. From there, I can choose any image I want to put instead of the current one:
NicEdit is in, jWYSIWYG is out
NicEdit is a more mature visual editor than jWYSIWYG, but still lightweight.
Two important benefits:
- more inline than ever: when editing the post content, the editor preserves all the styles from your theme, making it even more seamless
- autogrow for all: autogrow is native to NicEdit, which means that it should work reliably in all browsers
Other improvements
- improved single paragraph editing
- better handling of text widgets
- compress JS & CSS for faster loading
- compatibility with Ajaxed WordPress plugin
- added Estonian translation, by Aivar Luht
If you’re having trouble with the new version or have a feature request, hit the support forums.