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Free Plugin by David Chandra Purnama v1.4.0

f(x) Editor

Power-up Your WordPress Visual Editor with Boxes, Buttons, Columns, and more...

f(x) Editor

The facts

Rating
5★ from 6
Active installs
1k+
Price
Free
Last updated
9 Dec 2016
Added
Feb 2016
Requires WP
4.5
Tested up to
WP 4.7.35
Downloads
16,678

Our analysis

AI-assisted

f(x) Editor is a WordPress plugin designed to enhance content editing by adding features such as Page Breaks and Text Background Colors. It allows users to create information boxes, buttons, and columns through a visual editor, making it easier to enrich content without needing to remember shortcodes.

The plugin is suitable for developers and content creators who want to improve the visual appeal of their posts and pages. Features can be enabled or disabled through the settings menu in the WordPress administration panel.

Best for: This plugin suits developers and content creators looking to enhance their WordPress editing experience.

What it does well

  • Enables Page Break and Text Background Color features
  • Allows creation of boxes, buttons, and columns via visual editor
  • No shortcode required for usage
  • Easy to enable/disable features in settings
  • Active support available at Genbu Media

Where it falls short

  • Last updated in December 2016, may not be compatible with newer WordPress versions
  • Limited information on support for future updates

Verdict

f(x) Editor provides useful features for content enhancement but may require caution due to its age and update history.

From the developer

David Chandra Purnama's own description of f(x) Editor, lightly tidied.

f(x) Editor is a plugin to enhance your content editing experience by enabling WordPress features such as Page Break and Text Background Color/Highlight.

You can also easily create information boxes, colorful buttons, and columns to make your content richer and engage to your audience more.

After installation of this plugin, you can enable each features by navigating to “Settings > Visual Editor” menu in your administration panel.

Features:

  1. Easy settings to disable/enable features.
  2. Create boxes (Note, Alert, Error, Downloads) via visual editor.
  3. Create buttons (White, Black, Red, Green, Blue) via visual editor.
  4. Create columns ( up to 3 columns: “1/2 – 1/2” ; “1/3 – 2/3” ; “2/3 – 1/3” ; “1/3 – 1/3 – 1/3” ) via visual editor.
  5. Add page break button.
  6. Add line break
    button.
  7. Enable text background color option (not only text color).
  8. Switch paragraph to BR(line break).
  9. Easy to use. No shortcode to remember.
  10. The GPL v2.0 or later license. 🙂 Use it to make something cool.
  11. Support available at Genbu Media.
    Notes for developer:

Github

Development of this plugin is hosted at GitHub. Pull request and bug reports are welcome.

Options

This plugin save the options in single option name: fx-editor.

Scripts

This plugin load one CSS in site front-end and one css in editor. If you are a theme author and want to override the styling it is recommended to remove the CSS and add the CSS in your theme stylesheet and editor style CSS.

To disable the front end CSS, add this code in your theme functions.php:

add_filter( 'fx_editor_load_front_css', '__return_false' );

and then you can copy the CSS “css/front.css” to your theme style.css and make adjustment as needed.

To disable the back-end/editor CSS, add this code in your theme functions.php:

add_filter( 'fx_editor_load_editor_css', '__return_false' );

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