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I’ve been a happy user of wordpress for quite some time now, but until recently that I feel like having some photos in my blog, I got my mind mixed. Wordpress is a nice blogging tool, but the default editor is not wysiwig and for almost the same reason, picture/photo files need to be uploaded separately and later hyperlinked through the HTML editor within wordpress.

Since I’ve been living with HTML for almost 10 years now, wysiwig editor is not really an issue. It is however that I felt inconvenient with the upload and hyperlink stuff, that I started to think for an alternative. It’s not to switch to other blog engine but to have an editor that I can use it to upload my graphics/ photos, and wysiwig as an added bonus. Maybe I’m just too used to joomla way of doing this, and so I think it would be nice to have the same feature in wordpress too.

Joomla uses TinyMCE editor as it’s default editor. I, however, personally prefer fckeditor, and by that I started searching for fckeditor for wordpress. fckeditor is an online wysiwig editor that is much similar to Microsoft Word, except that it runs in my favorite browser, firefox, and other browsers as well. I can’t wait to see it to have a save buton that I can save my work in .doc (or actually .odt) format. If previously there were rumours that google will be developing web based word processsor, then fckeditor might be in google’s next-to-buy list.

My quick search lead me to, which later bring me to. Installation was a snap, and everything works well for me, though many people raises issues in the forums. I just followed the installation manual directly as in readme.txt provided along with the zip file.

1. Unzip the chenpress.zip file, and you will have a "chenpress" folder containing all the ChenPress files.
2. Upload the "chenpress" folder and its contents to your wp-content/plugins directory.
3. Move the folder "UserFiles" to your website’s root (http://www.example.com/UserFiles), and set the properties of the folder and its subfolder to 777.
4. Go to the Plugins page in your WordPress Administration area and click ‘Activate’ for ChenPress.

For more information however you can refer to this page. Here’s a snapshot of fckeditor in action:

Update: 20051229
I am now using wordpress 2, which already has a simple wysiwig editor by default. It is simple indeed and I just don’t like the upload option at the bottom of the page, and so I’ll just stick to my fckeditor..