MAKING THE PLUGIN LOGICAL AND USERFRIENDLY
AnsweredThe plugin is very useful and better than most I have tried, BUT it has one enormous defect which I want you to correct:
- When you want to place a gallery on a page you insert a SHORTCODE on that page
- Every shortcode displays a different gallery
- the shortcode settings are the fundament of the display of the galleries
- so the basis for all is the shortcode
- as the plugin is designed now the shortcodes are found inder GLOBAL SETTINGS/GENERATE SHORTCODE
- On the page GENERATE SHORTCODE you find a drop down list with the shortcodes, but you are tempted to push the button GENERATE
- So if you want to change the settings for a precise shortcode you have to first chose that one in the dropdown list and then change the settings.
- This is an extremely and complicated and confusing way of arriving at what should be the STARTING POINT of the process.
- so this is how it should be:
- on the main menu under PHOTO GALLERY/GLOBAL SETTINGS there should be another menu item called "SHORTCODE SETTINGS"
- At the top of this new page called SHORTCODE SETTINGS you should chose the shortcode for which you will change the settings
- The name of the shortcode should be possible to set by the user and always visible at the top of the page
- On this page all the settings for this specific shortcode are defined and at the buttom of the page you have the SAVE button.
This tip is worth a lifetime subscription because it will change completely the user friendliness of you plugin and make it very easy and logical to use
CONCLUSION: It is like painting house: you dont paint first and thereafter chose which house should have that paint, but first you chose the house and then the paint
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