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You now have a visual editor, that is much easier to use and works more like a word processor. You can now see your formatting while you’re typing. You can even use keyboard shortcuts click Cmd-B (OS X) or Ctrl-B (Windows and Linux) for bold, and Cmd-I or Ctrl-I for italics. Hover over the buttons to see the keyboard shortcuts (just know that “Ctrl” should be replaced with “Cmd” for OS X).
Hyperlinking is now much easier, too.
But if you don’t like using the easy buttons, the old bbCodes (with square brackets) still works, and that’s the only way to still add the spoiler tag at the moment.
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I also published some minor color enhancements, so the “quote,” “edit” and ID number links will be more visible.
[adrotate group="5"]Ooooh. Shiny newness is shiny and new!
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Yay! Much easer than the code that I used to know but have long since forgotten.
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I just wrote a post in another thread and in the visual editor, it was just showing all the code, same as the text editor. It also didn’t insert a pic when I used the old img bbcode.
Then I went back to edit it, and clicked the bit to add an image using html instead, and then the pic DID show up in the visual editor. The bbcode in my post – I was quoting 3 different people – still showed in the visual editor. Should that be happening or should it be showing it like a preview of what the actual post will look like? Considering the pic showed up, it seems that maybe the visual editor liked the html code, but not the bbcode that the quotes were using?
ETA that in another post I just made, I had quotes using bbcode and italics using html. Italics showed up properly in the visual editor, quotes still showed as code. Is there a way to totally phase out the bbcode? The two different codes don’t seem to cooperate well. If you go to quote a post that already has a quote in it – meaning your own post will have one quote embedded inside another before you type your response – the embedded quote has a bunch of html but the outer quote has bbcode and the result is an actual post with a bunch of code in it that’s hard to read. If there’s a way to cover spoilers using html, maybe it’d just be easier to scrap the bbcode altogether?
@Phee, the visual editor is not a full preview, especial when you use shortcodes and BBcodes.
Ah OK. When the stuff in html showed up as it’s meant to appear in the visual editor, I just figured the same would go for the bbcode.
The issue of bbcode and html not working together with multiple quotes is an issue after the post is actually submitted though. There’s a bunch of excess html code that shows as text in the actual post.
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