Support for CKEditor

[zizther]

What are you trying to do?

With P&T now focusing support on CKEditor rather than Redactor would it be possible to see this being compatible with this plugin as well?

What's your proposed solution?

Support Footnotes with the P&T CKEditor plugin https://plugins.craftcms.com/ckeditor?craft4

Additional context

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[zizther]

@engram-design Any thoughts on this one?

[engram-design]

It’s not on my immediate roadmap, just because it’s a completely different implementation. But it’s something we’ll look at eventually.

[tsawitzki]

Being in charge of a huge museum archive project here in Germany, we have editors relying heavily on the current Redactor/Footnotes combination for publishing scientific cultural research articles via the website. These include loads of footnotes, spread over many Matrix field contained Redactor fields.

Not being able to switch to CKEditor might become a big problem in the near future when the project has to be upgraded to Craft 5. Especially since this is a not a temporary marketing site but a cultural project which is meant to be public for as long as possible, regular upgrading will be crucial over the next years.

So a big +1 for this request. Here we’d even be willing to pay a recurring plugin fee to have this as a professional plugin and not just a freebie.

[johndwells]

We are about to install this on a client project because it's the perfect implementation for our needs. We don't have immediate plans to upgrade them to CKEditor, but obviously something we will want to do eventually. So we too would love to see support for it! ❤️

[epapada]

Same here! +1 for supporting CKEditor. We have a client that publishes hundreds of scientific papers and footnotes are paramount. Would be delighted to see this on your Roadmap! :)

[tsawitzki]

Still hoping there will be a way to upgrade to CKEditor soon.
If someone could point me to an alternative solution, using CKEditor and the ability to transfer 1000+ footnotes from Redactor and this plugin automatically, it would be more than welcome.

[engram-design]

Still looking into this by the way, just getting up to speed on the CKEditor API, as this'll be completely different to the Redactor implementation.

[tsawitzki]

Thank you for the quick update Josh, that’s good news!

[phillipsandoveracademy]

Big +1 One of our sites uses this plugin and would prefer to use this plugin in Craft 5, instead of another plugin and migration path. Thanks!

[daniellelecomte]

Appreciate you looking into this Josh. +1 here as well - have a site that is using this heavily!

[thatONEjustin]

ahh this is preventing a craft 5 upgrade on a client project, +1 hoping this gets resolved sooner than later

[AdamChlan]

+1 for ckeditor support. We are moving all of our sites to it and do want to continue using this plugin

[tsawitzki]

@engram-design any chance this could land on the roadmap for first half of 2025?
As Craft 4 is approaching end-of-full-support by March this year, updating those systems to 5 will become more urgent by the latter half of 2025 when there will be no more support by Q1 2026 …

[engram-design]

That'll likely be the plan to align with Craft 4 EOL, but more likely closer to the middle of 2025.

While Redactor might be marked as no longer maintained, it's currently at 53k active installs, which is double CKEditor's. So it's not nothing, and I'm well aware there's interest in CKEditor support. I haven't forgotten about this!