WYSIWYG Editing in Movable Type

Blogging is huge. Lately it seems like anyone and everyone has a blog and more and more clients are asking for them. When building a blog for a client there are multiple platforms to choose from; TypePad, Movable Type, WordPress, Drupal, etc. Each has it's own pros and cons but debate over which is the best is not the purpose of this post.

I'm a Movable Type fan. That's what I use for Code Scene and whenever possible, for building client blogs. I find it intuitive to use, powerful, and easy to customize. It's main drawback though is in posting new articles. It gives you a textbox to enter your post but little in the way of formatting options other than bold, italics, and hyperlinks. If you want to add things like bulleted lists, you're stuck writing HTML. While I have no problem with that, it makes it difficult to turn the blog over to a non-developer client to manage.

Enter EnhancedEntryEditing, a mini-WYSIWYG editor plugin for Movable Type. You simply install this into your Movable Type plugins folder and you now have a much better editor when adding new posts. This makes it much easier for your clients to manage their blog and frees you up to do other work.

The site lists this plugin as free for personal users but if you find it useful (and you will) kick up a few bucks to the programmer and support the community.

More good Movable Type plugins at movalog.com