Macros for blog entries
First let me say that I did use the search feature before asking this question. It is possible that I didn't know enough to know how to phrase the query so please don't be irate at my daring to ask. Second off (related to the first) I am an utter and complete novice. I am never going to be nor aspire to be a developer or coder. I just have a raggedy website for old gardeners to journal about their gardens...hopefully...so I may not use the right terms. I hope I have disclaimed enough to avoid censure.
I would love to have the ability to set some macro series of commands in my ELGG blog that allows users to do much as does MS Word and use shortcut keys to create block of repeated text and perhaps perform commands like date insert (I realize that the date is inserted under the ## of days ago area via a mouse over but the actual display of the date would be awesome) I wouldn't need for the various users to be able to set the macros just to use a predefined list of them.
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You must log in to post replies.I believe you can do it with additional plugins or custom configuration in your visual editor (CKeditor or TinyMCE).
I've never used such features but you can learn more on:
https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor4/latest/features/index.html
Plugins for TinyMCE:
https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/plugins/insertdatetime/
https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/plugins/template/
https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/plugins/textpattern/
Thank you! I will check them all out
I think the usage of templates or rather setting up the templates within the editor plugin might require some coding (experience) in any case. I never tried the creation of templates with Tinymce (and no experience with CKeditor at all) so I can't tell how easy/hard it is to achieve to get some kind of templates/macros added for users to make use of.
Both CKeditor and Tinymce support keyboard shortcuts. Maybe not all functionality can be achieved with keyboard shortcuts alone. It might rather be an alternative input method instead of using mouse to select toolbar items but it might help for some often used options at least. I think both the CKeditor and Tinymce sites have a list of supported keyboard shortcuts.
Within my Extended Tinymce plugin I have added a date/time toolbar option to allow for entering the date and/or time in some typical formats within a posting. The Extended Tinymce plugin is an alternative to the bundled CKeditor plugin of Elgg where I added a few more options to be available by default.