ckeditor.com/builder is broken by not including all plugins in the "Selected" column.
Checking back with my much older downloaded versions of CKEditor, this was the case back then too. Your site is not including all plugins it states it is when choosing the "Full" option or when being manually added to the bundle.
Quite annoying as it makes the builder uselss, but I'm glad I caught this as clearly nobody else has for years..........
Here are plugins that I had to manually download that did not download using the builder set to Full with these items either being by default in the "Selected" (left) column of the builder interface or manually being added by selecting them from the right column and clicking the arrow to move them to the left column:
autogrow_4.4.5.zip
zoom_2.2.zip
basicstyles_4.4.5.zip
bidi_4.4.5.zip
blockquote_4.4.5.zip
button_4.4.5.zip
colorbutton_4.4.5.zip
contextmenu_4.4.5.zip
dialogadvtab_4.4.5.zip
dialogui_4.4.5.zip
elementspath_4.4.5.zip
enterkey_4.4.5.zip
entities_4.4.5.zip
fakeobjects_4.4.5.zip
filebrowser_4.4.5.zip
floatingspace_4.4.5.zip
floatpanel_4.4.5.zip
font_4.4.5.zip
format_4.4.5.zip
horizontalrule_4.4.5.zip
htmlwriter_4.4.5.zip
iframedialog_4.4.5.zip
indent_4.4.5.zip
indentblock_4.4.5.zip
indentlist_4.4.5.zip
justify_4.4.5.zip
language_4.4.5.zip
lineutils_4.4.5.zip
list_4.4.5.zip
listblock_4.4.5.zip
menu_4.4.5.zip
menubutton_4.4.5.zip
nbsp_1.0_0.zip
newpage_4.4.5.zip
panel_4.4.5.zip
panelbutton_4.4.5.zip
pastetext_4.4.5.zip
popup_4.4.5.zip
print_4.4.5.zip
quicktable_1.0.5.zip
removeformat_4.4.5.zip
richcombo_4.4.5.zip
save_4.4.5.zip
selectall_4.4.5.zip
sharedspace_4.4.5.zip
showborders_4.4.5.zip
sourcearea_4.4.5.zip
sourcedialog_4.4.5.zip
strinsert_0.01.zip
stylescombo_4.4.5.zip
stylesheetparser-fixed_1.0.zip
tab_4.4.5.zip
tableresize_4.4.5.zip
textselection_1.04.zip
undo_4.4.5.zip
wsc_4.4.5.zip
wysiwygarea_4.4.5.zip
Well, actually the builder
Well, actually the builder works a bit differently than you think, hence the wrong impression that it is broken.
One of the builder's tasks is to merge all selected plugins to one ckeditor.js file -- exactly what you get when you download one of the presets, such as Standard or Full. This happens for performance reasons, the build is optimized. The only files that are not merged (and thus you can see them in the "plugins" folder) are the dialog window files as dialogs are always loaded on demand.
There are at least two ways to check whether the plugins are really there:
Hope this explains why nobody "caught it for years" :-) Cheers!
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Thanks
Thanks Anna for the info, though it's a bit late in keeping me from downloading all those individually and JUST ABOUT copying them into the plugins folder before receiving the notification e-mail about your response (whew, would have been more wasted time).
Maybe adding an empty folder to those builds that resides in the plugins folder telling it that much would save lots of people lots of time and anguish.
Something like "Your other bundled plugins are merged into..."
I think we have it mentioned
I think we have it mentioned in a few places, like here ("This will reduce the risk of omitting plugin dependencies and in the created optimized build all plugins will be merged into one file, which will reduce time needed to load them."), but since you somehow failed to see it, it probably means we should stress it even more in our docs and instructions. Thanks for bringing this up!
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