It has been a while since we posted any information about our next version here. FTPEditor 4 is being developed for more than a year now. In between the project went into many different directions.

First we wanted to add more features to FTPEditor to make it a bigger more powerful tool. It took us a while to notice that more features is not the best way to go. Therefore we concentrated on making FTPEditor more stable and reliable. So we strengthened existing features - for example by bringing in a completely new FTP engine.

When we started to released the public preview version and watched the incoming feedback, we noticed that we were on the right track. Most users were not asking for more features - they were happy with the existing ones being faster, more usable and more reliable.

Having learned that lesson we decided to go even further into that direction. We even began skipping features (like the image html insertion and others). Some of the features we removed some others we just deactivated. So it will be the users voice bringing them back or not.

Finally we even skipped a complete version. Correct - with FTPEditor 4 we no longer will have FTPEditor and FTPEditor Pro. There will be just one FTPEditor from now on. Of course existing FTPEditor Pro users will still get all futures updates for free - as we promised back then.

Please let us know what you think about these changes. If you can’t wait until we finally release FTPEditor 4 please feel free to contact us a beta at ftpeditor.com to get a copy of the current preview version.

After reading Nick Bradburys blog entry in which he mentions the Wikipedia articles of his software I was going to look if there would be an entry about FTPEditor as well.

I was really delighted to find an article about FTPEditor on Wikipedia. It is still a stub, so if anyone wants to add something, feel free to do so.

WinPlanet has published a review of FTPEditor called “Easing the Pain of Routine Web Edits“. In this article the author describes the advantages of FTPEditor over standard FTP clients and normal text editors.

It’s not at all uncommon to routinely make small changes to your Web pages in order to correct grammar or spelling mistakes or update sections of information. This process typically involves opening the file in an editing program where the mistake is corrected, but if the file isn’t on your hard drive or if others also work on the file, you’ll need to first download the file before editing it. After that, the file is uploaded by means of an FTP client.

The end result is a lot of time and work to make simple corrections or changes, but what if you were able to edit the files right on the server, using one program?

Besides that the article mentions another benefit of FTPEditor - its ease of use:

Using the program is a breeze. If you already have experience using FTP programs and text editors, you can use FTPEditor “right out of the box.”

There is only one point in which the tester missed a feature. The article mentions that when you want local copies of your files you would have to sync them manually. However - to create a local backup of files edited on a remote server just activate “Create local backup” in the SiteManager.
Seems we have to work on better advertising this feature.
Thanks to WinPlanet for the review.

FTPEditor Pro has been granted the “SAFE TO INSTALL” certificate by FindMySoft.com.

“This means that your software contains no viruses, spyware, adware, trojans and backdoors and causes no threat when installed.”

We’ve updated the screenshot page. Not only it now shows the current version (3.3) but it also comes with an improved functionality. We used the Lightbox Javascript by Lokesh Dhakar.