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Use matrix oddon for article

March 01, 2011 5:46am

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  • #1 / Mar 01, 2011 5:46am

    gabric098

    18 posts

    In your experience is a good idea use Matrix addon to publish mutiple paragraph articles?
    My articles are always made up of a list of paragraphs (text, image, image alignment) but I can’t say how many paragraphs will compose one article.
    For this reason I thought that use Matrix add-on could be a good choice, what do you think about this strategy?

    Thanks
    G.

  • #2 / Mar 01, 2011 9:03am

    John St-Amand

    865 posts

    I’ve done that before for a couple of sites and it does seem to work well. Certainly affords more control over brand/CSS enforcement that leaving one big WYSIWYG field in there allowing the client to figure out the formatting.

  • #3 / Mar 01, 2011 9:27am

    gabric098

    18 posts

    Thanks for your reply,
    in fact, in this way, the ‘non skilled customer’ can input articles in a simplified mode.
    The only question that remains is: Matrix add-on doesn’t seem to support textarea input type, am I right? So is impossibile for the customer add simple formatting (such as bold, italics, links…) to the text.

    Thanks,
    G.

  • #4 / Mar 01, 2011 9:40am

    John St-Amand

    865 posts

    I thought it did. But I’ve not used it that way. I still use Brandon’s Wygwam field for the paragraph and just strip out a bunch of the button options - you could actually strip it down to be little more than a textarea anyway but have other configurations for other areas of the site.

  • #5 / Mar 01, 2011 9:47am

    gabric098

    18 posts

    Good suggestion John,
    I’ll give it a try. 😉

    Thanks,
    G

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