Cursor position in Visual & Text editor

  • Resolved staralexander

    (@staralexander)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Is there a way to ‘mark’ the cursor’s placement on the page in Visual editor so that when switching to Text editor the cursor will be in the same place so we don’t have to hunt through miles of code? One thing I miss most about Dreamweaver is the split screen capability. Is this something that can be added to the existing editor or is there a way to do this that I don’t know about? Surely I am not the only one who is wondering about this…thanks in advance, I know we all will benefit from this. Star Alexander

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  • Thread Starter staralexander

    (@staralexander)

    I am not sure how often this happens, but I’m glad to say I came up with my own solution. Since I’m fairly certain that others of you have had the same problem here is what I did. If you read my question the answer was right in front of me all along. I said “I miss the split screen capability of Dreamweaver”.
    So the answer? Use Dreamweaver and WordPress together!
    I use my Dreamweaver split screen to edit the pages that have a lot of code.

    I simply copy the code (click on ‘Text’, then Select All and copy the entire HTML block).

    Then open a new Dreamweaver document and REMOVE all the code in CODE view and paste in the HTML code from your WordPress page and then you can work with it just like you would any other webpage. Only difference is that the layout in Design View sometimes doesn’t look exactly as in the final page, due to WordPress Theme php or CSS styles that aren’t displayed until you actually Preview the page in a Browser.

    After making the changes, I simply copy the code in DW and paste it directly back into the page in the WP editor. If for some reason the code gets corrupted or something gets screwed up you can always restore the previous saved version of the page. Thank you WordPress!

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