Magento 1.4.0.0-Alpha2 available with WYSIWYG Editor!

The 25th of September, Magento released the 1.4.0.0-alpha2 version, offering us the so expected official WYSIWYG editor.
After several minutes on it, I only could say that it was worth waiting! It’s powerfull, easy to control and user friendly.
All the basics functionnality usually offered by a WYSIWYG editor are embedded.





By pressing “Show / Hide Editor” button, you can insert one of the following Widgets (specific Magento tags):

• Link to a Product
• Link to a Category
• Link to a CMS Page
• CMS Block Widget
• Catalog Product List Widgets: New, Recently Compared, Recently Viewed

Let’s have an example: display the new products on Home Page, using the catalog product list Widget “New“:
First of all, do not forget to configure at least one product as “New” from the option “Set Product as New from Date“.
Then, go to CMS –> Manage Pages –> Home Page.

• Click on the new tab “Content“
• Click “Insert Widget” button

• Select “Catalog New Product List“
• And then choose the number of products to display and the cache lifetime

Then click “Insert Widget”
That’s all!



Now just check the result in your Home Page (In my case, I first had to reindex data from System –> Index Management):