Issues with Inline Ark Editor on Template Monster Theme

Issues with Inline Ark Editor on Template Monster Theme

I have recently had a lot of issues with the Inline Ark Editor on Joomla Templates that I purchased from TemplateMonster.com The issue was... 6:24 PM

I have recently had a lot of issues with the Inline Ark Editor on Joomla Templates that I purchased from TemplateMonster.com

The issue was with various headings in the template. They would look fine when browsing the site as the public but as soon as you logged into the front-end to perform the inline editing then you would have the headings looking like this:

{DIV CLASS="EDITABLE" DATA-ID="148" DATA-CONTEXT="ARTICLE" DATA-TYPE="TITLE" DATA-ITEMTYPE="BLOG" CONTENTEDITABLE="TRUE" STYLE="DISPLAY:INLINE;"}Heading One

After much research and contacting support for both ARK Editor and TemplateMonster.com I finally found the issue myself.

The issue is with a custom function that seems to be present in most TemplateMonster themes called wrap_with_span() it looks something like this:

//Wrap Title words with Spans
function wrap_with_span($string){
  if(strpos($string, '||')){
    $string_delim_arr = explode('||', $string);
    $string = $string_delim_arr[0];
  }

  $string_array = explode(" ", $string);
  $string_spans[] = "";

  foreach ($string_array as $key => $value) {
      $string_spans[] = '<span class="item_title_part' . $key . '">'.$value.'</span> ';
  }

  $wrapped_string = implode($string_spans);
  return  $wrapped_string;
}

This function is located under the theme directory in the 'includes' folder and then functions.php

Resolving the issue

To fix this issue, I simply added a few lines of code to the beginning of this custom function.

$user = JFactory::getUser();

if (!$user->guest) {
    return $string;
}

This bit of code simply returns the original string if there is someone logged in. This is a quick fix and may break some responsiveness of the website. It is used generally if you are allowing someone to log into the site to edit pages/articles. You might want to reconsider the code if you have people registered on the site that will not have access to the ARK Editor plugin.