Wordpress WYSIWYG Editor! Holy Cow!

Try this

Dean's FCKEditor for WordPress Plugin
Dean?s FCKEditor for WordPress - a WYSIWYG editor plugin : DEAN LEE:/DEV/BLOG
This is a great plugin that replaces the standard WordPress text editor. It is great for Internet
marketers because it gives you a lot more control in editing text. Some of these features
include easily adding highlighting to text, more font size options, easy line breaks, tables, etc.
This plugin works much like any Word processing software. It is a must for any marketer
building sales pages or sales letters with WordPress.

I've tried that and the editor does nothing. I mean I can't even add bullets...

...although WYSIWYG is powerful resource in order to make your website free to your own likes, its have some disadvantage that the true coding can do. Well try to look forward as site coder of your site. When you create a site, even though there's a way to do, try to get some knowledge about creating and coding of website. At least, you know the basic form and coding a website and you will know it would be a great help in you to be able to customize your own site. Just search for the online tutorial for the basic coding and secrets.

Do particular themes themselves limit the usage of the editor. I have other blogs that don't seem to have this problem. I think its the theme! I like this theme however. Maybe I'll look at the code like you side and maybe do some edits to try and fix it. I wouldn't really know what might be causing it but I might take a stab at it.

Thanks

The Visual editor does have its limitations and the HTML view is affected by the WordPress filters.

Here's a review of the Raw-HTML plugin that I've used for a while now. If you know HTML this plugin enables you to do whatever you want with your page layouts:

http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/20...ordpress-html/

Cheers,

Martin.

I have tried RAW HTML though with no success. I am stumped with this one. I have contacted who I got the theme from, he says he'll contact the coder to see about it.

Hi Mitch,

Yeah, I hear 'ya about WP, it's super powerful but it has it's flaws. Complaints like yours and from a lot of other people for different things always go unheard.

For example, my biggest complaint is the auto-draft save feature or whatever it's called. A lot of people have complained about this. I won't explain it, and anyone who knows what I'm taliking about will put the approval on this rant...

Sorry, back to you.

The wysiwig for WP also needs a lot of improvements. It really isn't wysiwig if you think about it, that's straight un-adulterated non-css writing. Until you publish it, you don't know what it looks like. There are many plugins that mimic the page before publishing, but as you yourself have tried, they aren't fully working.

Here's what I do when I'm making a page or post and need to publish it first to see what it looks like, publish it as a private post first. Look at it, change fonts, colors or whatever before making it public. No one can see it but you.

Learn more about html and write your pages/posts outside of the wyswyg. It's kind of like driving a car that's a stick shift over an automatic.

You could check into ThemeDreamer if you have Dreamweaver. It's an extension for
Dreamweaver to do wysiwig on a Wordpress theme.
They have a free 15 day trial so you can see if it works for you.
I just got it yesterday so I haven't had a chance to play with it too much yet