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Better than WYSIWYG? The BUEditor in Drupal 7: Use and Configuration

28 October 2011

Some time back, I promised another short article in the WYSIWYG set-up series for Drupal 7, one which covers BUEditor. First, we should note that the BUEditor is not actually “WYSIWYG”, but it offers some nice features which might make it a bit better than the WYSIWYG options, depending on your use case. It also does not integrate with the Wysiwyg module. You add it separately (and instead of Wysiwyg), but it does have some great supporting modules and code libraries. This article covers some of the basics about use and installation of the BUEditor on a Drupal 7 site (most of the information applies equally to Drupal 6, where the BUEditor module is also available). I’ve also got some good tips for some ways to extend the default button-set. (And you can download my modified button code here to easily import the buttons into a new editor profile.)

Configuring and adding images to Drupal 7 content with Wysiwyg, IMCE and Lightbox2

6 October 2011

This article covers the configuration and use of IMCE (and related modules) to integrate uploading and inserting images within your Drupal content. We assume you are using either TinyMCE or CKEditor with the Wysiwyg integration module, but in a separate post we will cover using IMCE with the BUEditor, a simpler text editor which also works well with Drupal. Note: This article uses Drupal 7, but most of the tips should also be helpful if you are configuring a Drupal 6 site for the same functionality. Indeed, this site is still running on Drupal 6 and also uses a Wysiwyg-integrated CKEditor, IMCE, the Image resize filter, and Lightbox2.

Configure an awesome WYSIWYG content editor in Drupal 7 with TinyMCE or CKEditor

18 September 2011

In Drupal, there are actually a number of ways to add a WYSIWYG editor to a text area. The new “Drupal way”, used on over 150,000 Drupal sites and arguably not so “new” anymore, is to use the Wysiwyg integration module, which has support for several of the editor libraries. I would personally suggest using it, if your needs can be met by it, since it's becoming more and more powerful and offers a fair bit of flexibility to easily change the configuration or editor used. That said, there may still be reason, in Drupal 7, to use one of the single-library integration modules, such as the still-popular CKEditor project. The TinyMCE integration module development has already been abandoned in favor of Wysiwyg, but it's good to have alternatives. Note: In this post, we assume you already know your way around Text formats. Text format configuration can be one of the most tricky parts of properly setting up your WYSIWYG experience, so if you don't already feel you know your way around this common stumbling block, be sure to read our recent post about Text formats / Text filters, too. This article is a companion-post to that one, but it also includes some degree of overlap, since when we turn on the Lightbox and Image Resize Filter modules, we have new filters we'll want to use in some text formats and we will want to pay attention to the order in which they are applied, so we will briefly revisit this topic here.

Drupal 7 Text Format Filters -- the Internal Links Module

16 August 2011

Working with Text format filters (aka Input format filters) can be a sticky point when building and configuring a Drupal site. Even experienced Drupal site administrators might sometimes forget a step when they turn on a module which provides an input filter -- then it can be confusing why things aren't working as expected. In this short lesson, we activate and configure the Internal Links module, which adds node titles as the HTML title attributes for links to other nodes on the site.