DLE Post Editor PRO

One convenient publishing form for DLE instead of separate short and full story fields: blocks, galleries, embeds, drafts, version history and a feed preview. DLE 15.1–21.0.
Version 1.0.0 PHP 7.4 — 8.4 DLE 15.1 — 21.0 Documentation Open demo

DLE Post Editor PRO replaces the DataLife Engine add-news form with a single editor, like Teletype or VK. The author just writes a post: text, photos, video, links and blocks follow one another, while the short story and the feed cover are built automatically. The form fits the add page of any template and the DLE admin panel. Works on DLE 15.1–21.0.

Highlights

  • One form instead of two fields. The short story is taken from the start of the post and the cover from the first photo. You can write your own feed text or put a preview boundary right in the text.
  • Blocks for every need. Photos and galleries, video by link or as a file, link card, subheadings, quote, spoiler, lists, table, code, callout, hidden text, button, table of contents, footnotes, page break.
  • Embeds. Telegram, X, Instagram and TikTok posts and Yandex Maps. The text stores a plain link, so the embed survives saving in the admin panel.
  • Nothing gets lost. Server drafts, history of the last 20 versions with restore, a warning when someone else is editing, browser autosave until the site confirms the save.
  • Old posts stay intact. Opened and saved without edits, the text stays byte for byte in the database. Tables, players and code of old posts are kept as they are.
  • Group permissions. For each group: which blocks and buttons are available and how many photos and videos a post may have. Limits are checked on the server.

Pleasant to write

  • The «+» menu and quick block search with «/», markdown shortcuts, keyboard shortcuts and focus mode.
  • Pasting from Word, Google Docs and websites keeps the formatting.
  • Typography: proper quotes, dashes and non-breaking spaces in typed text.
  • Crop, rotate and wrap photos, galleries with two or three photos per row.
  • AI assistant: improve the text, suggest a title and tags (the key is set in the DLE settings).

Feed, search and social

  • The «As in the feed» preview shows the post card before publishing.
  • A feed cover cropped to 16:9 is also used as the link image in social networks.
  • The «Search and social» section: title, description and keywords with a search result preview.
  • Scheduled publishing right from the form.

Your look on any template

  • The form takes the template colours and theme, light or dark. Colour, style, density and corner radius are changed in the settings with a live preview.
  • Blocks on the site look native in any template and in dark themes: the module styles them with the template colours.
  • On phones: labels under buttons, a formatting strip above the keyboard, all windows within the screen.
  • The [ped-post] and [not-ped-post] tags help a template avoid showing the start of the post twice.

Screenshots

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Choose a suitable plan

We offer flexible licensing options depending on your needs.

Standard
$49
  • 3 sites
  • Open source code
  • Support 12 months
  • No updates
  • Downloads 7 days
Recommended
Extended
$86
  • All Standard features
  • 10 sites
  • Priority support
  • Updates 12 months
Premium
$159
  • All Extended features
  • Unlimited number of sites
  • Personal consultations
  • Updates forever
  • Installation and setup
  • Adapted to your website (including code refinement)
UnboundFor studios and closed servers

Everything in Premium, but the key is not tied to sites and the module never contacts our server.

$367

A site is a domain together with all its subdomains.

Version history

  1. 1.0.0 current 30 New 4 Improved 3 Fixed

    New 30

    • A single publishing form on the site instead of the short and full story fields
    • The whole add page has one style: fields, poll and settings are gathered in a tidy panel with search
    • The DLE quick edit button opens the same form and returns to the story afterwards
    • Photos in a row form one gallery: add and remove images, the star picks the cover
    • Blocks: photos (one or several), video by link, subheading, quote, spoiler, list, divider
    • The short story and cover are built automatically from the start of the post; an older story with its own short text is not overwritten without your choice
    • AI assistant in the form: improve selected text, write on a topic, suggest a title and tags. Uses the key and model from the DLE settings (DLE 18.0 and newer)
    • Scheduled publishing: choose the date and time right in the post settings
    • Drafts on the server: start on a phone and continue on a computer
    • Link card: paste an address and get a title, description and image
    • Word count and reading time in the form
    • YouTube, VK and Rutube videos are embedded with a player on all DLE versions
    • “Group permissions”: which blocks and buttons each group can use, photo and video limits
    • The draft is saved automatically and restored after a page reload
    • The form can also be used in the DLE admin panel — enabled in the settings
    • “Appearance”: theme, color, style, density and radius with a preview; by default the form follows the template colors
    • Old posts with tables, players, code and [hide] open without losses: such fragments are kept as is, with a link to the standard DLE form
    • Paste from Word, Google Docs and websites keeps subheadings, bold, italic, links and lists; markdown shortcuts ##, >, -, 1., **bold**, _italic_
    • Keyboard like Teletype: Backspace and Delete join paragraphs, arrows move between blocks, select and delete several blocks, undo from the first press
    • Typography: guillemets, dashes, ellipsis and non-breaking spaces (switch in settings); edit and remove links, open in a new tab
    • Gallery: caption and alt for every photo, drag to reorder, delete as a whole; photos without location data, transparent PNG, queued upload with Retry
    • Phone: labels under buttons, a «Please fill in» line, a bold/italic/link strip above the keyboard, «+» on an empty line
    • A post is never lost: the draft is kept until the site accepts it; [ped-post] and [not-ped-post] tags for the full story in a template
    • New blocks: table, code, callout, hidden text [hide], link button, table of contents, footnotes and page break; they look neat on any template
    • Embeds for Telegram, X, Instagram, TikTok posts and Yandex Maps; video as an uploaded file; an HTML code block for trusted groups
    • Photos: crop and rotate right in the form, text wrap on the left or right, half width; galleries with two or three photos per row
    • Feed and search: your own feed text, a preview boundary in the text, a feed cover cropped to 16:9 (also used as og:image), a «Search and social» section with a result preview
    • Version history: the last 20 versions of every post, with preview and restore; edits to a published post can be put aside as a draft
    • Editing together: a «Someone is editing» warning and a second-tab warning, protection against saving over someone else's edits; each tab keeps its own browser autosave
    • Keyboard shortcut help (Ctrl+/) and focus mode (Ctrl+Shift+F): just the text, without the site header and sidebars

    Improved 4

    • Template quick forms (Velora, Pulsr): their posts open without questions about the short story; a template can hand text over to the full editor and hide its duplicate buttons
    • An old post opened and saved without edits stays byte for byte in the database; typography touches only edited paragraphs; video and poster in the short story are kept
    • Long articles: typing is dozens of times faster (one block menu for the whole editor, no needless page redraws), form files are minified
    • «+» menu: six frequent blocks with labels and «All blocks» in groups; «/» search puts exact matches first and understands the other keyboard layout

    Fixed 3

    • Embeds survive «Save» in the DLE admin panel and adjust their height; blocks on the site use the template colours and fit dark themes
    • Security and data: meta and SEO in the admin panel are written only after DLE accepted the save; the server checks the post version; history, meta and drafts are deleted with the post
    • Feed short story without hidden text, buttons and footnotes; the cover is chosen in one place; WebP and PNG photos without location; phone: panels and windows stay within the screen
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DLE Post Editor PRO · module for DataLife Engine

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