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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

An awesome editor for Joomla - JCE

Joomla is a awesome content management system. Because it can be extended using thousands of ready and free extensions. By default Joomla uses tinymce editor. That is an simple editor with less options and buttons

If you think this is not filling all your needs you can try JCE. Its and advanced content editor that makes creating and editing Joomla contents easy.

Check what the developer said about this editor
Add a set of tools to your Joomla!® environment that gives you the power to create the kind of content you want, without limitations, and without needing to know or learn HTML, XHTML, CSS...
  1. Office-like functions and familiar buttons make formatting simple
  1. Upload, rename, delete, cut/copy/paste images and insert them into your articles using an intuitive and familiar interface
  1. Create Links to other Sections, Categories, Articles, Weblinks and Contacts¹ in your site using a unique and practical Link Browser
  1. Take control of your code with syntax highlighting in the Advanced Code editor and advanced style and element attribute editing
  1. Integrated Spellchecking using Google™ Spellchecker (or PSpell and ASpell)

This editor is expandable. You can install addons to this editor like file manager, media manager, image manager, captions, iframes ...

To use this awesome editor in your joomla website you will have to download the right version of it from this website.  Install JCE into your joomla website using extension manager. Then go to global configuration and set JCE as your default editor.

Once done, you will see that your content edit box is now changed to a feature rich content editor

You can edit the layout of the editor , you can remove unnecessary buttons or add new buttons on it.
So enjoy Joomla JCE.