March 25, 2019

July 1, 2016 — At The New York Times we use Scoop, a homegrown CMS written in Java. Like WordPress, it uses TinyMCE for editing the article text. This editor is only for modifying the actual text content of the article. Rich content is either edited in a separate pane or in one-off CMSes.

I’m currently working on a team to create a next-generation editor for Scoop, built on top of ProseMirror, an alternative document model editor with customizable schemas, which will replace our TinyMCE instance. Let’s discuss what (and how horrible) contenteditable is, different library approaches to it, and whether ProseMirror could be useful to WordPress.

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December 18, 2015 — How can you improve on the default WordPress dashboard; and make the post editing toolbar less cluttered, more intuitive and relevant for your users? All it takes is a bit of forethought and a sprinking of code in functions.php. Why do this? To make life easier for content editors, help them avoid some common mistakes, and put some useful new options on the editing toolbar.

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August 23, 2014 — В докладе Николай расскажет о работе с административной панелью WordPress, покажет инструменты для ее настройки, поделится кейсами успешных проектов, объяснит как доработанная «админка» может стать эффективным инструментом для клиента и конкурентным преимуществом для веб-разработчика.

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