Just a few months in the past, we launched our model new, trendy Visible Editor! Since then, we’ve been arduous at work to proceed to enhance the textual content editor expertise for everybody. As we speak, we have now the newest instalment of enhancements: the power to modify your textual content editor on an article by article degree!
Switching your default textual content editor on a WORLD degree
As earlier than, you may swap your world’s default article editor through World Configuration. If you do that, all new articles you create in your world will use that default editor.
What’s modified is that, whenever you swap editor, it WON’T swap your earlier articles to the brand new editor routinely. The explanation for that is easy. Articles beforehand written with difficult (or incorrect/unorthodox) BBCode don’t change nicely to the Visible Editor, so we don’t need to pressure all of your outdated articles to a unique editor!
Nonetheless, we’ve now added the power so that you can do that your self, manually!
Switching your textual content editor on an ARTICLE degree
It is a new characteristic we’ve simply added – you may change the textual content editor of a person article in your world. Switching textual content editors on an article is tremendous straightforward.
- Edit the article in Superior Edit mode.
- Scroll to the underside.
- You’ll discover a bit inexperienced button stating the present editor the article is utilizing. Click on it and a panel will broaden just like the one under.
- After you click on the “Change” button, the web page will reload and the editor could have modified! Study extra about the way to swap editors.
IMPORTANT WARNING: PLEASE READ THE NOTES on the web page!
Attributable to technical constraints, some textual content editor switches are straightforward, and a few are extra dangerous.
- Switching to the Superior Editor is now really useful as a one-way change (i.e. we don’t suggest switching again once more).
- Switching to the Visible Editor shouldn’t be really useful except you’re 100% certain the article doesn’t have any superior formatting (i.e. BBCode). If it does, the Visible Editor received’t have the ability to learn your BBCode, and also you may lose a part of your content material!
Which is the very best textual content editor on World Anvil?
Effectively, that relies upon what you need! The Visible Editor and Superior Editor each have their very own strengths:
- The Visible Editor helps you get inventive and handles primary formatting simply. You don’t want to make use of BBCode, so you may simply give attention to the worldbuilding.
- The Superior Editor helps you to create refined and sophisticated layouts with columns, customized containers, tagged lists, and far more. So it’s a terrific editor to make use of for making these articles go from nice to attractive!
With this new system, you may take pleasure in the very best of each worlds! For instance, you may set your world to the Visible Editor, and use the Superior Editor just for articles that want extra superior formatting.
If you happen to’re worldbuilding with Gamers or Coauthors who can’t use BBCode, you may set their articles to Visible Editor in order that they don’t have to fret about it.
Visible Editor or Superior Editor: which is your favourite and why? Tell us within the feedback!
