WordPress makes a great CMS thanks to its easy to use interface. As a designer it is a relatively quick way for me to put together a scalable, easy to maintain, and attractive web site for clients. For my clients, WordPress offers an interface that most of them can handle based on their experience with the basic MS Office products.
I have one client who like tables - not the HTML-based tables - but tables to display data. She needed to be able to add a table of data to a page without having to know anything special. The current TinyMCE interface doesn’t accommodate tables so I headed to the WordPress Codex to find out if there was a plugin to make adding tables easier. I found TinyMCE Advanced and it works GREAT!
When you install and activate the plugin, you can then go through and add the additional WSIWYG buttons that you or your clients use or rely on most. The table buttons were essential to my client’s needs - now she can easily insert a table, add rows, merge cells, and display her data the way she is most comfortable with.
The other additions include: Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Full Screen, IESpell, Layer, Media, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras.
What other plugins have you discovered that give WordPress additional usability for the non-HTML fluent user?
