Submitted by Bryan on

Although you wouldn't expect an application with the version number of 2.3.1.5 to contain anything but bug fixes, in the world of mojoPortal almost every release contains new features for the CMS. mojoPortal 2.3.1.5 is no different with a number of changes centered around rich text editors (WYSIWYG). TinyMCE has replaced FCKeditor as mojoPortal's primary text editor.

Tiny MCE Editor Rises To The Top

For a long time now the FCKeditor has been the best editor available out of the box in mojoPortal. It was the only one with the ability to browse and upload images and files, it was the only one with integration for our Content Template System and Content Style System, and it was the only one with a spelling checker. Not anymore! I had not upgraded the Tiny MCE editor in a long time, I had tried to once and it broke and I was busy so I reverted to the working version. But recently we've been having some issues with FCKeditor so I decided to give the Tiny MCE upgrade another try.

Joe Audette, mojoPortal developer, writes that FCKeditor fans shouldn't feel like they're being left behind. mojoPortal also supports the CKEditor. The makers of FCKeditor realizing that the code base for their RTE was more than six years old and needing improvements began CKEditor as its replacement. CKEditor focuses on features such as accessibility and performance improvements that weren't quite there for FCKeditor.

Besides changes for TinyMCE and CKEditor, mojoPortal 2.3.1.5 also includes these enhancements:

  • New Permissions Tab in site settings
  • NeatUpload 1.3.18 upgrade
  • The DOCTYPE changed to Html 5 for included skins
  • The default 90 days allowed to comment on a new post post can be changed
  • Removed Site Office
  • New translations include Hebrew and Polish. The German translation has been updated.

mojoPortal can be downloaded by the site's official download page.

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Comments

Thanks for the coverage

Joe Audette's picture

Thanks for the coverage Bryan!

I really feel that the editor experience is probably the single most important feature for a good CMS. The ease with which users can browse and upload images and other media is really key to a good editor experience. The Content templates and styles integration is also helpful. I'm not finished with it yet though, for the next release I'm already working on automatic image resizing for uploaded images. All us techies know its bad when a user uploads a huge raw image from their 27 mega pixel camera, its too big for a web page. But users rightly expect to be able to just upload and have it work.

Not sure if we are the first CMS to include CKeditor or not though I don't know of others who have it. I'm looking forward to more documentation for CKeditor so I can do a similar integration. It has a very nice looking UI.

I've been working very hard on the user experience and I believe mojoPortal has the best out of the box user experience of any of the ASP.NET open source content management systems.

CKEditor

Bryan's picture

I remember reading about CKEditor when the project initially started, but to be honest, I had forgotten about it until reading your post that mojoPortal is now including it it the CMS. You may be right, mojoPortal could be one of the first CMS to include CKEditor.

mojoPortal has definitely come a long way in look, feel, and features these past few years. Keep up the good work!