A Call for Resources

A Call for Resources

Dec 2009
20
Posted by John Bloch in Development, Programming, WordPress

Quick question: does anybody (all my tens of readers) know of a good resource for GOOD documentation of the WordPress brand of tinyMCE? The resources on WordPress were very basic (and more concerned with WP hooks than the tinyMCE API), and the docs on the tinyMCE are more of a reference book for those who already understand how the program works.

I was able to figure out enough to get the contact form’s button working, but the way it worked wasn’t ideal. In a perfect world, the button would insert the shortcode in the html editor and an image in the visual editor (much like WordPress already does with flash video, like a youtube embed.

Just hoping somebody stumbles across this.

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ONW Simple Contact 1.7 Released!

Dec 2009
20
Posted by John Bloch in Development, Programming, WordPress, WordPress Plugins

I’ve been hard at work integrating the Simple Contact Form into the tinyMCE editor so that there’s a custom button.

Why would I do that, you may ask? Because the Simple Contact Form wasn’t simple enough. As crazy simple as shortcode seems to me, this is what I do for a living. It’s my job to think it’s easy and make myself look smart by using highly technical language.

With the click of a button, you can have a fully functioning contact form in any post or page.

And now the release date has arrived.

Of course, I had good reason to release some kind of an update, since the wonderful minds at Automattic just released Wordpress 2.9 (Carmen!) a couple of days ago.

Anyway, I’m sure I’ll have to release a new version soon, in a quest to make the plugin ever more accessible.

Please let me know if you have any problems with the plugin, but please post comments on the plugin page so that other people (who may have the same question) can see the discussion.

Two more things: first, if you have any suggestions for future versions, please send them my way, and I’d be happy to put them on the list. After all, I’m making this so that people will use it (and enjoy it).

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