Best option for WYSIWYG page editor ?

Wygwam is the market leader and has very good reviews. I believe there’s a couple others like Wyvern and Expresso.

All of them are paid plugins.

If you have experience integrating CKEditor, then that could serve as a deep dive into customizing the EE admin area and it would be free.

There is a WYSIWYG editor that comes with the core CMS; it’s pretty limited, but functional.

If you’re just researching, why not download the free core version to play around with? It won’t have the community (user) or forum functionality, but you can get a good idea of what the back end is like and how customizable it is.

Well, first back up the bus a bit.

Your thread title has “page” in the word and if you are looking at EE and still thinking in terms of using it to “manage pages” or “edit pages” then you haven’t quite fully grokked EE yet.

EE is a entry-based CMS, not a page-based CMS.

Clients edit content. Not web pages.

EE creates web pages on the fly as content is requested.

EE templates store most of the presentation logic. Not entries.

You should only need WYSIWYG fields in a few places, otherwise use simple text fields and let the templates do the markup.

I was thinking this very thing. These days with responsive page design, you just can’t throw content into a page and expect it to to flow and scale properly. So I guess you really do need properly defined templates with specified content source which works with that particular template. So I do understand what you’re saying and it makes sense.

The problem for me is that I will be using this for a client who thinks they can just say “I want” and it will happen by magic. They are incapable of understanding that if they want to change the layout, which they do on a whim regulary, that it requires work they are incapable of performing themselves. They would never understand how to change a template and its html/css let alone its data sources.

So agreed, I probably don’t need a wysiwyg editor.

Thanks