Ideas for small improvements to the new Distraction-Free Writing

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Written By Brian Krogsgard

5 thoughts on “Ideas for small improvements to the new Distraction-Free Writing”

  1. You might want to check out my Just Writing plugin (wordpress.org/plugins/just-writing) which allows you to use the old DFW mode with enhancements.

  2. Great post, mostly agree. The new DFW is better iterating a bit more could be great.

    One thought I had as reading your ideas about centering the content editor, would be to make it take on a themes content_width value and be closer to Wysiwyg, ideally some day we’d get to true wysiwyg.

    • I always add an editor stylesheet with a max-width value on the mceContentBody class, to match (as closely as possible) the width of the post on the front end. A couple of clients have told me this makes editing posts much nicer as they have a better idea of how it is going to look. Adding the ability to set this width for the actual editor field sounds like an interesting idea. Maybe it could be done via a filter?

  3. I wish WordPress and all other software in 2014 got rid of SAVE button. Considering how mobile and short-focused folks are these days everything should be auto-saved as soon as user interacts with it.

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