JCK Editor 
Version
6.1.3 (last update on May 10, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
329
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
12 April 2009
Uses Updater?
- Yes
Most remarkably the JCK Editor is a free content editor for Joomla! It is free for you to use and install on any of your sites under the GPL licence!
★IPAD & IPHONE RESPONSIVE
For the first time you don’t need a special Joomla Mobile App to upload and manage your website on your iPad or on your iPhone! This is because the JCK Editor is now responsive in Joomla 3.0!
This approach suggests that design should respond to the user’s behaviour and environment based on screen size, platform and device. With the newly designed dialog screens the editor now offers support for the new IOS 6 file upload which wasn’t possible in Safari until now!
★NEXT-GENERATION GRAPHICS
We've taken the Editor to the design shop and married creative and technical disciplines into a truly beautiful and user-friendly interface. Your find it easier to use, more productive, a tool which aims to put the user in the driving seat.
★CUSTOMIZABLE INTERFACE
Everyone likes to edit their own way, so we’ve made it easier to adjust the JCK interface. Re-arrange, organize, add or remove buttons or change the colour of the skin in the editor’s parameters.
★SUPER-FAST PERFORMANCE
Fasten your seatbelt the API engine has always been fast, but this is the fastest ever! It gives the editor dramatically better performance than ever before which means, web editing will feel snappier and more responsive. It’s astonishingly 18x times faster at loading than the JCE Editor – having only a tiny memory footprint, so users can work faster and be more productive! But hey - if you don't believe us, why don't you give it a try and see how fast you can go?
★STATE-OF-THE-ART INTEGRATION
Its much more than an out-of-the-box installation of the CKeditor! We’ve been under-the-hood and joomla-ised its logic into a seamless and extendable integration. Users can now choose what plug-ins, tool-bars and shape its architecture in all sense of the word - with ease!
★LARGEST PLUGIN REPOSITORY
Plug-ins are the cornerstone of customisation, letting you personalize your editing experience. These apps can be used to quickly and simply expand the functionality of the editor and with the largest growing extension base of all Joomla editors, you'll be able - to do much more…
★MANAGE YOUR FILES IN ONE PLACE
Upload images and files, view thumbnails in one place without needing to navigate away! It doesn’t stop there as Joomla! user groups can have their own personal folders, which can be used in a verity of ways! For storing online documents, for nested folders, for relative links to media, flash, electronic documents and image files. The best part is its simplicity - it’s useful, fun, totally
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I have used other editors and have settled in on JoomlaFCK Editor for my site and the sites of all of my customers. The few times I have had questions, the developer has promptly responded with pertinent information. Thank you for such a nice product.
Owner's reply
No problem, pleased we could help (o:b!
This is truly the most superior, well developed Editor that I have ever used. Actually I am astonished that you have developed this to be so easy with all the extra features for a great Editor and easy configuration of the plugin with just a click here and there and its FREE! This is what truly makes Open Source!
Allowing a choice (for Admin) so that Users/Members have limited usage and Administrators have all the features is just brilliant and exactly what I needed, also being able to choose the editor Skin to suit my website design AND being able to pick storage of files, images.
What else can I say but a huge BRAVO to the team, this is truly the best Editor available, OUTSTANDING!
Very happy
Christel
Allowing a choice (for Admin) so that Users/Members have limited usage and Administrators have all the features is just brilliant and exactly what I needed, also being able to choose the editor Skin to suit my website design AND being able to pick storage of files, images.
What else can I say but a huge BRAVO to the team, this is truly the best Editor available, OUTSTANDING!
Very happy
Christel
Owner's reply
Hi Christel, thank you for your very encouraging words.
It's the perfect editor. You can do everything, and it's very easy for my clients.
very good, very easy to use, well done, and thanks for releasing a free version
Owner's reply
Hi jarlaxe, yes the editor is free software released under the GNU GPL license. We warmly welcome you to download the editor, use it, copy it, adapt and change the code to best fit your needs. You can use it on every site you own without any licensing issues.
I was looking for a complete editor, easy to use, easy for the rest of my staff to use, no additional plugins needed. I find it works as well as offline word processors, does not add excessive HTML markup, and does not cut out code when I edit the HTML. Unlike someone below, I found no problem with using or resizing images. I can do so much more with text than with the Tiny MCE editor. Now our articles look great!
Owner's reply
Thanks for your support and I am delighted to hear that! Take care.
As the title states, the JoomlaFCK Editor is now installed and set to the default editor on all the Joomla! sites that I put up for my clients and for myself. Not only is it very "light weight" (that is, it's FAST!) but it does what no other editor does "out of the box":
FITS WITHIN THE CONTENT AREA during a FRONT-END EDIT! :)
No more completely or partially hidden "Save" and "Cancel" buttons! The toolbar reflows to fit the available space. This alone merits the use of the JoomlaFCK Editor over any other. My only issue with it is it's "Link" tool; not quite as intuitive as another "popular editor", but is easily remedied by installing the Linkr extension.
An awesome addition to the Joomla! "toolbox"! :)
Cheers!
Lyle
FITS WITHIN THE CONTENT AREA during a FRONT-END EDIT! :)
No more completely or partially hidden "Save" and "Cancel" buttons! The toolbar reflows to fit the available space. This alone merits the use of the JoomlaFCK Editor over any other. My only issue with it is it's "Link" tool; not quite as intuitive as another "popular editor", but is easily remedied by installing the Linkr extension.
An awesome addition to the Joomla! "toolbox"! :)
Cheers!
Lyle
I have switch from JCE to FCKeditor and am very happy with this addon. Very flexible, well supported, simple to install and manage and FREE. The addon consist to a simple plugin when JCE require a component and many other dedicated commercial plugin for extend feature like resize picture and upload files. The new Image Manager are great and permit to perform many task on images.
The only thing must be absolutely added for become the real best editor are probably:
-Ability to remove picture from Image Manager because actually when you upload a picture you can not delete them. The only manner are to use default Joomla Media Manager and this is very annoying.
-Ability to change/customize easily the size or thumbnail when a image are uploaded using Image Manager. Actually only 2 size are proposed by default (550x350 and 1000x1000).
-Ability to create popup image using Slimbox or Modal for example. The problem for implement a popup features are probably the fact this require to manage 3 images for generate a popup...That mean if a user upload an image (most probably a picture coming from a camera and so with a big format size like 2000x900 pixels for example) is necessary to set an intermediate image (the one that will be displayed in popup) and so to choose appropriate size and finally a thumbnail where user will click for display intermediate image. Ability also to choose to not keep the original big image can be nice...this for save disk space and avoid useless files.
Anyway this editor are the best one...should be included in Joomla core instead the poor Tiny editor.
The only thing must be absolutely added for become the real best editor are probably:
-Ability to remove picture from Image Manager because actually when you upload a picture you can not delete them. The only manner are to use default Joomla Media Manager and this is very annoying.
-Ability to change/customize easily the size or thumbnail when a image are uploaded using Image Manager. Actually only 2 size are proposed by default (550x350 and 1000x1000).
-Ability to create popup image using Slimbox or Modal for example. The problem for implement a popup features are probably the fact this require to manage 3 images for generate a popup...That mean if a user upload an image (most probably a picture coming from a camera and so with a big format size like 2000x900 pixels for example) is necessary to set an intermediate image (the one that will be displayed in popup) and so to choose appropriate size and finally a thumbnail where user will click for display intermediate image. Ability also to choose to not keep the original big image can be nice...this for save disk space and avoid useless files.
Anyway this editor are the best one...should be included in Joomla core instead the poor Tiny editor.
Owner's reply
Thank you for your kind words.
This is exactly what i was looking for!
The html code is very simple and clean, yet
the interface allows users to go beyond the simplicity of the html. This will save Developers and regular content editors lots of time!
Thanks!
The html code is very simple and clean, yet
the interface allows users to go beyond the simplicity of the html. This will save Developers and regular content editors lots of time!
Thanks!
Owner's reply
Dear arrehman1, I am pleased that you are enjoying the editor. We work extremely hard at making the editor as easy as possible. Thank you
JoomlaFCk is very Good. The design is well thought out. Thanks.
Any tips for speeding up load time would be even better.
Any tips for speeding up load time would be even better.
Owner's reply
hi rushtovijay, thanks for your comments. Upload times are normally controlled by the host you are using rather than the editor. Kindest Regards
I have setup and worked on hundreds of Joomla sites using other editors.
This one by far is leagues above the rest.
One very very important feature, you can insert code, scripts like flash and such and it does NOT strip the code... the code works.
Previously we had to go to Global Settings... change the editor, go back insert the code into the article... then save it and go back into global settings and change the editor back.
If you are tired of reading all that, imagine having to do it!
Thank you much for this great editor. Alaskalivedotnet.
This one by far is leagues above the rest.
One very very important feature, you can insert code, scripts like flash and such and it does NOT strip the code... the code works.
Previously we had to go to Global Settings... change the editor, go back insert the code into the article... then save it and go back into global settings and change the editor back.
If you are tired of reading all that, imagine having to do it!
Thank you much for this great editor. Alaskalivedotnet.
Owner's reply
Hi Alaskalive, thanks – we invest a lot of time into the project and receive reviews such as yours in a great encouragement!
Great editor which I am using for my personal non commercial site.
Not sure if it is to be classified as non-commercial though as it is only free for non-commercial use.
Not that I don't think you guys should get paid for your great work!! And 32Euros is definitely a very fair price for using it commercially!!!
Keep up the great work
Not sure if it is to be classified as non-commercial though as it is only free for non-commercial use.
Not that I don't think you guys should get paid for your great work!! And 32Euros is definitely a very fair price for using it commercially!!!
Keep up the great work
Owner's reply
Hi rodpacker, thank you for taking the time to post a review. The editor is free, free for all; free to download for business users and non-commercial users! However, subscription applies for those needed commercial support. You can opted out by choosing Non-Commercial use/Free & you will be granted 1 day to download it. ENJOY(o:b
This editor is powerful and intuitive (for most users of "A Well Known Word Processor From A Certain Evil Empire, Which Shall Not Be Named") but what was most impressive was how quickly the dev team responded to a nasty little surprise thrown them by Firefox's latest version. New patch released, no FTP'ing required, just install and keep on truckin'. You gotta love that.
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