New Editor at WA - Blogs, Discussions, and Drafts!!

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Hello WA!

Today we have released a major upgrade to how blogging, discussions, and training is created here at Wealthy Affiliate!

We have a brand new text editor that provides better functionality and a much more clean interface for publishing content at Wealthy Affiliate.

Let's start with Blogs!

The blog editor has been given a complete facelift. The design is makes it much easier to create a blog post and get it published. The Title, Editor, and Tags areas are combined into a clean and easy to navigate interface.


More than just a facelift, we've taken things a step further with Blog and we are now auto-saving drafts! As you type your blog post we are auto saving every keystroke and update that you make to your blog post. This will give you the security that no matter what happens, your content is saved!

You can create a blog post and allow it to be saved as a draft, then come back to it at a later date and finish it off before publishing. Each time you load the blog editor you will see a "drafts" folder with the count of how many drafts you have. Simply click on this folder and you will see an option to load a previously created draft. I have had the opportunity to use this new feature for quite some time now and it works great. No more worry about losing your content when publishing blogs at WA!

The Green "Camera" icon is how you add a thumbnail to your blog, and the Gear icon just above it is how you toggle the permission and sharing options!

Introducing Classroom Discussions with Formatting!

Classroom discussions now also include the option to format your content within discussions. This means that you can now add images, headings, lists, blod, and horizontal lines to your discussions. This really enhances the communication within classroom discussions!

Discussions do not yet have drafts, but we're going to get some feedback from the blog drafts system before rolling it out to discussions.


The new editor at Wealthy Affiliate is also available within Training, so you can take advantage of the new formatting options when creating training too!

We have some more really exciting system upgrades coming to Wealthy Affiliate very soon, so stay tuned!

I'd love your feedback on this. Let us know what you think about the editor and saving of blog drafts. I know that I will be blogging more often with this new interface, and I hope that you will too!

Cheers,

Carson

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So happy that I can save drafts of my blog posts. I have been saving them in word because sometimes I don't have the time to finish them or I get a great idea and do not want to forget it.

Since many of our blog posts get picked up by Google Search it is a good idea to make them the best that we can.

Thanks for the updates.

I totally agree with you, it's a relieve to be able to focus on writing, and be able to come back to it and publish when you are ready. All can be done right at WA now! I'm loving it!

Great I need a class in formatting.

Glad to see the save drafts and formatting for classrooms. It didn't really click before that these things were missing, but now that they're there, I'm glad to have them. Thanks for keeping WA up to date.

Great! Haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but, it sounds nice.

I think that you are really going to like it Brad! Let me know what ya think once you try it out. To create a blog just use the feather drop down next to your Member Rank and image at the top of the page.

Ok Carson, I just gave it a try and it worked great. I posted a new blog about organizing keywords. I imported a pic with no problem, used the new formatting a little, and the auto save is nice too! Good to know you guys are always working to make WA better, and better!

Awesome! Glad you like it and I'm happy to see that you blogged, well done :)

I'd like to second what eddy said. It's great that this is not a concrete site. I like that even the best sites like WA to evolve and improve to not only keep people here but get the newer folks like me a great learning experience.

Thanks for your continued efforts at WA

Awesome! One of Kyle and My goals is to create a truly great platform to educate and allow members to build online businesses. In order to be great, we need to continually evolve and improve. Wealthy Affiliate will never be static, it'll evolve with the times and continue to update frequently! Thanks for the feedback :)

I wish I could give you my feed back but you guys have spoiled me from jump! I joined pretty much after everything has been made so wonderful so all I can say is I LOVE WHATEVER YOU DO :-) So I will go back to letting the Affiliate Bootcamp kick my butt right now :-P SIR YES SIR!

Haha, thanks for the feedback and encouragement Dana! Hearing this really helps Kyle and I choose what to work on next and what "direction" we go. Bootcamp is helping so many people so I'm glad you're enjoying it!

Any chance that there is a WA app in the works? I am able to access the site on my phone browser, but it is not as convenient as an app would be!!! :)

We're always working on improving the mobile experience and we have a mobile version of the full view live chat that works perfectly with mobile browsers. The difficulty with mobile versions of websites is that in nearly all cases they are completely useless as they do not offer the full functionality of the site. WA loads well in all mobile browsers as it is, and a full mobile version of WA is probably not going to happen. That said, there are aspects that could be made more "mobile friendly", such as writing blogs, or creating discussions.

Offering an outstanding mobile experience is certainly something we will continue to work towards.

Carson, I totally agree with you! Sometimes, you need to walk away to get your thoughts together before writing a blog post. So this is a great improvement that will probably make me blog a lot more!

Glad to hear it man! You've got loads of experience and I know many folks would benefit from what you've got to say ;)

I'm so happy about the blog draft and auto save feature. I can't tell you how many times I've been in the middle of writing some thought provoking stuff and boom it magically disappears! Great job as always! I love how you guys are always enhancing our experience here WA! Our membership dollars are always hard at work!

Hey Eddy, you and me both have had blogs disappear in the past! It's refreshing to be able to type and know that your changes are being saved in real-time. For me, I know that I like to take my time blogging and sometimes it takes more than one session to write something. Drafts are going to allow people to do this and publish when they are 100% ready! Glad you like the updates!

More to come this week too ;)

Sweet!!!

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