Very easy to use, simple and very efficient. You can upload pictures directly from your PC. I like it better than JCE and TMEdit.

After making the purchase and using it for awhile and seeing some cool things in it, I did start to find things that need attention by the makers.

Pro's - it has a pretty decent document management for finding and linking to things in your page or site. It also has a fairly decent image manager as well which is why I originally got this for my joomla CMS.

Con's - As I have used this, I seem to come across either missing features that free editors like JCE have. For example, if you need a link to do a popup window, you cannot set parameters for the popup window; this one is only for a straight up full window. Another is if you create a module, the editor is squished off to the right side, so a fix for this is to do a setting in the mambot as "Fixed". Another is that the editor does not wrap code, nor does it have a feature to click to do that. I did find out any pages of the mambot inside the /mambots/editors/wysiwygpro/ directory turns out to be accessible in a browser, despite it being in the joomla CMS which one for the /mambots/editors/wysiwygpro/image.php showed my complete folder structure of site, page, graphics and images (I've informed them of this). Another is that if you use the snippits feature, the editor puts in tags after each line on its own (which I also informed them and they acknowledged with saying, do the code all on one line for the time being). There are more I can say here, but overall, I think for what this mambot has in it, or I should say what it doesn't have compared to say JCE as an example, the price does not justify it. The only one thing that stands out is the document and image manager which is a bit better than the free editors. But thats pretty much it.

I purchased WYSIWYG Pro for use at my website - www.woodwardfamily.org - almost two months ago. I figured a more exhaustive use of the product before sharing my evaluation would make more sense.

Advantages

1. WYSIWYG has the advantage of being able to generate XHTML transitional code.
2. There is the ability to create code snippets in the backend for the front-end person to insert.
3. It will autogenerate thumbnails upon access to a directory
4. It has a nice linking wizard that allows linking to document bookmarks, documents in your directory structure, other articles in your website, or external websites.
5. The tabs at the bottom of each text window make it a snap to see what you type, and the html code the product generates for that type.
6. There is an import feature for Microsoft Word created articles into the editor.


Disadvantages

1. WYSIWYG's image insertion wizard is counter-intuitive. It generates an image thumbnail for you, but does not automatically (or give the option to) select it for inclusion in your article. It also does not offer to automatically creating the linkage from a thumbnail to the main image like other products.
2. The product is not consistent in it's generation. While the product will show centering of a number of paragraphs or images, upon save some of the images or content will appear left justified. Going back into the editor html shows the tagging was not saved.
3. The product import of Word text is very sloppy and inconsistent. It may be written for Office 2000, but does not handle Office 2003 well at all.
4. There is not an option for a "pop-up" in click an image link.
5. The "Preview tab" is useless - it does not display or render javascript or mambot tags (mosimage, jogadgets, etc.)
6. The xhtml generation is messy. It generates a lot of div, div", and nbsp; tags that are not needed.
7. The product does not handle sub or superscripting formatting consistently.
8. The support from the website and the author is horrible. I opened a ticket, got a response from the product creator (I had asked if there was an automatic thumbnail to main image function) that the author would have to respond, and never did until I sent a tickled the company five days later. The response came back a day or two after my tickler.
9. No end-user documentation on the products more complex features. The product assumes the users are technically adept.


Frankly, if you don't need xhtml compliant coding, stick with JCE. This product is not well supported, does not execute its functionality consistently, and not a feature rich as JCE. It would be worth more to the community and for appreciation to the JCE author.

We are fairly new to Joomla and have only tried 4 of the editors but this one was definitely the best by a long way for what we needed.

Main reason was the way it handled simple things like images and links, editing in the front end etc. It worked how we expected and more importantly how our clients could understand.

Using this editor (and a few of the other extensions) made Joomla a more rounded solution that we can happily offer to our clients looking to step up to a more complete package of CMS tools.

lacks the bells & whistles of the tinymce that comes standard with joomla.
no more easy 'click-click' to make an image/link a popup with this, none of the extras that you can do with images or links at all in the standard wysiwyg editor.
my overlib works only maybe 25% of the time with this editor, while it works 100% of the time with the joomla standard.
i'd click and click to change a font and it'd just ignore me. i look at the html and it is *so* messy, no wonder it wont respond.
i am NOT pleased whatsoever with a pay for extension like this. the $44 i spent on the philaform was well worth it as it did everything, plus more, while this one does LESS than the free editors do but hypes its self up entirely too much.
i will be seeking my money back with that 30 day money back quarantee.

I'm not sure if this is such a great product or if it's because all the other editors shortcomings that makes it shine. A few major items missing are the ability to assign a CSS class (like the drop-down menu option in JCE Editor) or a more robust media uploader. It just seems a bit sparse compared with JCE, except I find JCE to be far too clunky to use regularly.

This is a rock-solid plugin for Joomla. Installation was extremely simple. The mambot has eighty or more settings that can be configured. Someone mentioned the "file, image and link management", that definitely made it worth buying for me.

Also this can be used beyond Joomla. It can also be used with WordPress and ones own web pages. So considering all this the price is pretty good for this.

They have a ticket system for their support which I used to ask about something but I found the answer looking in the settings in the mambot so I closed the ticket. They still emailed me and asked if everything was ok. Now that is good customer support. They also have a forum that if you use the search function you will find quite a lot of answers to questions.

For some reason (on my end I am sure) it took a very long time to install this and get it working. Only to find that you can't set a link to be a popup like in the tiny wysiwyg.
I know it seems trivial; but for a commercial $40US+ extension I would expect that to be in there since it is on the basic joomla editor...
I'm not really happy with it. The functionality is great and if it were free, ehh.. I probably wouldn't care...but like I said not so happy with it - I liked being able to make my images pop up in a specific reference area of my site...
(not to mention that more than once, the individual replying to my 'service' emails, was quite the smart *ss, and that was NOT appreciated)
~beh~
Chrissy

After struggling with 3 other free editors, including problems with not saving the data and difficulties uploading images and managing links to your site I decided to purchase WYISIWG Pro. It is the best so far and has easy tools for managing links, images, documents etc.

I have had a few minor hickups as follows:

- inconsistent usage of the undo button
- links to the site, images and documents are insterted as absolute links rendering them useless when you move the site (or example elevating from a local development area to a hosted production area).
- had a few inconsistent behaviours when you move an image (it will dissapear sometimes).

Nothing that cannot be avoided if you know about them.

I still think there should be a free editor that does all of this when the free editors are so advanced already however I am happy to pay for something that works when there is no suitable alternative.

I am using version v1.6.3_2.2.10 and had no install problems. Installation is smooth and the editor is really great - exactly what I had expected.

The code-preview is excellent. If you do commercial development: THIS will be your tool!

Buy and enjoy! :-)

Everything works fine with this editor, especially the file, image and link management. I would say perfect but editor is unable to manage the paste of source code in order to display it with Geshi. It adds a line break each time you save or apply the modification. Sad…

I've always been one to learn from trial and error so I'm slowly making headway along with many others, I'm sure. But when you find a tool that cuts your labour in half and allows you to be more creative, well then you've found something to really be thankful for.

The editor itself is nearly perfect solution for all the tasks you, or your customers would ever need. But there is an installer flaw, making it really painful to make it running on a Joomla running Russian, for instance. However, the support is responsive and qualified, and we've solved the issue in a few hours.

I had some strange bugs that happened using JCE on many sites. It just seemed to be unstable. So I bought this for a friends site and it just worked perfectly. I think I will need to purchase some additional copies for some other sites soon. This is a small price to pay for something that will save you the headache of trying to screw with the JCE Admin configs and getting it to be more stable with Joomla.

Nice Work Chris!!!

The best editor I used so far. And I used all of free editors. So small price for so many features. Don't think, just take it.