Little things missing in CMS V2

Small Issues:

Can a way be made to preview a post? (with artwork and audio podcast) Otherwise - just guessing everything is in the correct folder…

Perhaps going to confuse people:

Need to say to elements users: - work all online
Or:
Keep Downloading Changed .md files
Or:
A little of both?

For example: I want my self hosted podcast audio in my elements file

Could do it online - but then wouldn’t be in my file on my computer…

This - in my opinion - is going to confuse a lot of people…

Ideally - we need bidirectional sync - what gets updated online gets updated in our elements computer file

Don’t know if it’s possible - or how hard it would be to implement…

But this would solve a lot of future issues for you - imho…

if you’re using the Online Editor, you can preview a post. Just enter the Preview URL in the Folder settings and you’ll get a Preview button in the WYSIWYG editor.

Yes, I agree. We would like to explore some form of syncing between the online editor and Elements on your Mac. I can’t promise anything or even say if/when it will happen as we’ve not even discussed it internally yet :sweat_smile:

Wouldn’t this eventually just make the project larger and then run the risk when you republish from Elements, you may override changes?

I’d be happy with just a backed up zip file of Md files and resources on the hosting platform that could be easily downloaded.

Perhaps on launch of elements - have the software do a an instant sync with online - downloading the most current version…

Remember your .md files are 4-5k small

Bidirectional sync would be my preferred solution. But if this is too difficult or too lengthy to implement a solution like @ercross 's zip file would already be very helpful.

I would like to add one other little thing missing @ben . I’ve got a small personal website with a blog. The only one posting is me. So I use the free plan and am very pleased with all the features I have. I can finally leave Markdown behind. To be honest this free online editor is the reason I still use Elements and didn’t switch back to WordPress which I used in the past.

But I miss the status field in the free plan. I can understand that adding your own fields is not part of the free plan. But having the ability to change the status of a post is so basic to blogging. Blogging requires time for thinking and (re)writing, so it’s very unfortunate my blog posts are published immediately. Having to pay $99 for just this one field is just a bit too much.

tried preview: can’t make work… tried 0000015prohorn /0000015prohorn.php /0000015prohorn.html