Friday, May 9, 2014

Fixes: Some Clarification on Editing Changes

We realize that the BIG changes we made to editing on the front-end of your site and Admin may have caused some confusion and frustration. Our realest apologies for that.

There was largley a positive reaction to the front-end editing features (woot woot!) The confusion and frustration largely came from the removal of the WYSIWYG editor from everywhere in Admin, including pages that do not yet have front-end editing.

We removed the Admin WYSIWYG as a step toward making editing across your site both more straight-forward and better on the technical side (competing WYSIWYG editors = a messy fight with you pounding your keyboard in the middle).

However, you all need to be able to edit stuff still and shouldn't have to learn HTML overnight! So we have reinstated the Admin WYSIWYG editor on all user pages. We know you want to make your lists, sponsored, and Tastemaker pages look snazzy, so the WYSIWYG will be there until we enable similar front-end editing.

We also added clarification to all Description areas in Admin where the WYSIWYG editor was removed. It lets you know that the field is for HTML only, so additional line breaks, font formatting, image insertion, etc. need to be in basic code. For some basics you may use more frequently, we created this quick guide.

The old WYSIWYG has also been removed from old ECPs. The options for your ECP partners to customize event descriptions are either HTML via Admin -or- front-end editing for the corresponding events on your site. Any formatted event descriptions on your site will carry over to the ECP. Check it out:


Lastly, we reinstated your Pages tab in Admin. Your Pages manager never went away! It simply was hiding for a bit. 

Any additional thoughts on these changes, please let us know. We have really appreciated your feedback thus far - we're building and improving for you after all!

Hope you have FANTASTIC weekends!

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Friday, May 9, 2014

Fixes: Some Clarification on Editing Changes

We realize that the BIG changes we made to editing on the front-end of your site and Admin may have caused some confusion and frustration. Our realest apologies for that.

There was largley a positive reaction to the front-end editing features (woot woot!) The confusion and frustration largely came from the removal of the WYSIWYG editor from everywhere in Admin, including pages that do not yet have front-end editing.

We removed the Admin WYSIWYG as a step toward making editing across your site both more straight-forward and better on the technical side (competing WYSIWYG editors = a messy fight with you pounding your keyboard in the middle).

However, you all need to be able to edit stuff still and shouldn't have to learn HTML overnight! So we have reinstated the Admin WYSIWYG editor on all user pages. We know you want to make your lists, sponsored, and Tastemaker pages look snazzy, so the WYSIWYG will be there until we enable similar front-end editing.

We also added clarification to all Description areas in Admin where the WYSIWYG editor was removed. It lets you know that the field is for HTML only, so additional line breaks, font formatting, image insertion, etc. need to be in basic code. For some basics you may use more frequently, we created this quick guide.

The old WYSIWYG has also been removed from old ECPs. The options for your ECP partners to customize event descriptions are either HTML via Admin -or- front-end editing for the corresponding events on your site. Any formatted event descriptions on your site will carry over to the ECP. Check it out:


Lastly, we reinstated your Pages tab in Admin. Your Pages manager never went away! It simply was hiding for a bit. 

Any additional thoughts on these changes, please let us know. We have really appreciated your feedback thus far - we're building and improving for you after all!

Hope you have FANTASTIC weekends!

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