WA Fronted WordPress Plugin

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WA Fronted (or just “Fronted“) is a frontend editor for WordPress. It’s a free and open source project with a goal to enhance usability and convenience of editing content.

The core concept with Fronted is that theme and plugin developers incorporate their configuration filter and/or add-on in their plugin or theme. However since version 1.3.5, it will automatically configure itself to make post_content, post_title and post_thumbnail editable if no other options are set.

Live Demo

Documentation

Features

• [x] Support for extensions and integrations
• [x] Supports Custom Post Types
• [x] Supports Custom Fields (see supported fields for more details)
• [x] Advanced Custom Fields support (see supported ACF fields for more details)
• [x] WooCommerce support for simple product types (see supported WooCommerce fields for more details)
• [x] Supports Shortcake
• [x] Utilizes TinyMCE (thanks to isuelde)
• [x] Autosave
• [x] Post revisions (step through and see changes live)
• [x] Live value validation
• [x] Automatic oEmbed conversion upon paste
• [x] Automatic url to link conversion
• [x] Image upload by dropping an image into the editable area
• [x] Drag image to move it within the editable area
• [x] Automatic changing of image size to load when changing size of image in content
• [x] Edit featured image
• [x] Shortcode rendering & editing
• [x] Show unsaved changes warning if leaving page
• [x] Ability to edit other common columns from the posts table
• [x] Ability to set post as featured
• [x] Ability to set post parent to hierarchical post types
• [x] Ability to edit custom excerpt
• [x] Allow/Disable comments
• [x] Ability to edit fields saved in the wp_options table
• [x] Edit and add taxonomies (both custom and native)
• [x] Basic RTL support
• [x] Choice-based fields with dropdown-select
• [x] CTRL + click on link in editor to open in new tab/window
• [x] Automatic config of post_content, post_title and post_thumbnail if no settings are set, can be turned off by setting auto_configure to false
• [x] Check/Set post locks
• [x] Possible to create new posts from frontend

To do's

Things that are planned to be implemented in the near future (in no particular order)

• [ ] Optimization for small screens and touch devices

Proposed features/To do's

These features requires further discussion, not yet set to be implemented

• [ ] Change common ajax functions to make use of WP Rest API instead (when implemented into core)
• [ ] Ability to update widget contents
• [ ] Extended WooCommerce support
• [ ] Mirror style of current WP admin theme
• [ ] Ability to create child-categories
• [ ] Ability to create settings-modal for each editor
• [ ] Ability to change page template
• [ ] Break out built-in extensions into separate plugins

Proposed extensions

• [ ] Live SEO analyzis and tips with Yoast integration
• [ ] WPML integration
• [ ] Markdown parser

Requirements

• PHP version >= 5.4.3

Documentation

See the Wiki for documentation.

Collaboration notes

• I'm using Sass for styling and PrePros for compiling (there's a free version if you wanna check it out, but any SASS and JS compiler should work)
• JS files are minified and concatenated with PrePros, so without it you'll have to load the other js files individually (see @prepros comments in the beginning of scripts.js)
• I'm using Bower for keeping the following libraries up to date:
  • jQuery Timepicker Addon
  • Tipso
  • Toastr
  • Select2
  • Rangy
• Core features should be free and open source
• Comment your code

License

See the LICENSE file for license rights (GPLv2)