Better Formats 1.0 Released

Submitted by Alan on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 22:28
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Better Formats 1.0 stable has been released. Actually, I it was released last month but I haven't got around to writing a post about it yet.

If you have not tried Better Formats out yet, I encourage you to give it a spin. If you have ever wanted/needed to tweek the format selection system in Drupal this is the module for you.

Here are some of its features:

  • Set the default format per role.
  • Set the default format per content type.
  • Control allowed formats per content type.
  • Hide format tips.
  • Hide more format tips link.
  • Hide format selection, forcing the default to be used.
  • Expand the selection fieldset by default.
  • Disable the expand/collapse of the selection fieldset.
  • Set selection fieldset title.
  • Set more format tips link text.
  • Set default formats for nodes and comments separately.
  • Sensible defaults and fail overs for ease of use.
  • Works with CCK textareas.
  • Works with Panels comment form.
  • i18n module support for user defined strings.

Below is a screenshot of one the configuration screens.

I am an active Drupal maintainer. I always keep my issue queues clean so report any bugs you find or features you want and I will take care of them.

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Submitted by Andy Baxter (not verified) on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 00:58.

Is there any documentation for this module?

I want to use 'better formats' in combination with wysiwyg api to choose which content types have a wysiwyg editor, but I can't find the right entry in the admin menus.

Thanks,

andy

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Submitted by Alan on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 06:07.

Hi Andy,

The module is pretty simple with only 3 screens/urls of possible configuration. There is a README.txt file that is in the modules directory when you download it. It contains everything you should need to get going, including urls to the configuration screens.

If you have any questions post them over in the issue queue so we can track them and others will be able to find the information as well. http://drupal.org/project/issues/better_formats

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Submitted by Andy Baxter (not verified) on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 09:29.

Thanks - I found what I was looking for after looking at README.txt

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