Jquery Text Editor VS WP Editor

13 Oct, 2017 Danish Ansari 0 Comment

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INTRODUCTION

Jquery Text Editor

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Jquery Text editor is a rich editor and it is a complete library of the javascript file called the plugin.

Features of Jquery Text Editor :

• Displays an animated toolbar when input in the text area.
• Supports Bold, Italic, Underline, Lists, Links and HTML Source.
• Multiple instances on one page.
• Switch on / off button.
• Lightweight and easy to use
• Cross-browser: IE7+, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.

 

WP – EDITOR

WP Editor is a plugin for WordPress that replaces the default plugin and theme editors as well as the page/post editor. Using integrations with CodeMirror and FancyBox to create a feature rich environment, WP Editor completely reworks the default WordPress file editing capabilities. Using Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX) to retrieve files and folders, WP Editor sets a new standard for speed and reliability in a web-based editing atmosphere.

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Features of WP Editor :

• CodeMirror
• Active Line Highlighting
• Line Numbers
• Line Wrapping
• Eight Editor Themes with Syntax Highlighting
• Fullscreen Editing (ESC, F11)
• Text Search (CMD + F, CTRL + F)
• Individual Settings for Each Editor
• FancyBox for image viewing
• AJAX File Browser
• Allowed Extensions List
• Easy to use Settings Section

Usability :

Why we use jquery editor and wp editor?

If you use WordPress to develop websites and want to use a rich editor, WordPress welcomes you and provide help to use the rich editor as a plugin. But if you don’t use WordPress and develop websites in core PHP and  HTML, Javascript you can use JQuery editor.

Some Jquery Text Editor and WP editor :

Jquery Text Editor

Simditor

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It’s really easy to use, a clean interface and the documentation is very clear. The plugin needs to be initialized in a text area.

Trumbowyg

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It can be customized with plugins and is translatable, really flexible and simple.

Summernote

Summernote is a super simple WYSIWYG bootstrap editor. Requires bootstrap and jQuery, Summernote supports autocomplete features, hint for helping to type.

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It can be easily customized and initialized.

 

TinyMCE

TinyMCE is used for more than 10.000.000 sites around the web, supports inline mode and it offers Robust Cross-Browser Performance.

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TinyMCE have a lot of themes, is customizable, is Developer-friendly, you can build your own plugins and extensions, fully wrap the editor or use third-party extensions, it has an extensive documentation and it’s initialization is really easy (requires text area):

CKEditor

CKEditor is a ready-for-use HTML text editor designed to simplify web content creation. It’s a WYSIWYG editor that brings common word processor features directly to your web pages. It has a large community and it’s very used around the web.

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CKEditor is an Open source application, which means it can be modified in any way you want. It benefits from an active community that is constantly evolving the application with free add-ons and a transparent development process.Have no dependencies (unless you use an extension that needs something extra), the UI can be customized as you wish, it has a couple of themes, a really really well-written documentation, a lot of features and is a very flexible component that will match with almost all of your needs.

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WP Editor

WP Editor is a WordPress plugin that replaces the default WordPress editor. click here for Download

Some Screenshots are below :

Text Mode

Visual Mode

WordPress also provide a wp editor function. we describe and use in next ……

Conclusion :

Jquery text editor and wp-editor both are plugins but the main difference is wp-editor is WordPress plugin developed with PHP and javascript both, while jquery text editor plugin developed in complete javascript. They both are useful in their own manner and it completely depends upon the use of the developer on which one to use.