thyon

I developed my own registration plugin for another CMS, which could count down and block, but I’m not skilled yet on WordPress to be able to code this. Also, that CMS, each page can have a unique template design, which is not like WordPress.

I know of Landing Pages, which does something similar (design wise), but I’m stuck on how to get the event registration solved (with counters).

I found the problem. You load a static map backup on line 353 in the Maps.php class. I just commented that line out and there isn’t a color flash, which is the static map that is loaded by default

??

I thought the mashup was to plot multiple posts on 1 map. So now I see the mashup routine DOESN’T have the color flash, but the normal routing DOES? Maybe I should just hardcode this as a Google Map Code manually. I’m not that skilled with wordpress, so now that’s another 2 hours of work to figure that all out.

Of course I used the styling options, hence there was brown on my map. I had the code working with the glitch using the normal map function.

However I’ve copied the “mashup” code, but it doesn’t show the lat/long from the page?

This is for a contact us page. Your plugin can get a bit confusing on how to use.

How do I copy the correct code to extract the settings for the PAGE and show that in the mashup routine?

In other words what do I set the first ARRAY in the mashup to to extract the lat/long, and the description correctly from the PAGE?

Another theme is using a special code to format the map on another client’s website, and there is no color flash? Any idea how they did that?

https://www.swiftmomentum.com/contact/

I’ve got another solution, to have a overlay visible, and then hide that on document ready.

I have posted the URL, please can you take a look? I think it might be a static map backup that is loading, however I cannot locate this in the HTML.

Sorry, here is the URL:

https://www.aquaspresso.co.za/newsite/contact/

I tried tinyMCE widgets and their toolbars don’t load, so you can’t eadily create rich content.

I’ve been using Contao for clients to update content themselves and they love it, not sure how I’m goin to explain to them they have to kne HTML now with wordpress..

This is the best Page Builder I’ve seen so far. It’s visual and provides the best content editor:

https://demo.wpbakery.com/?theme=visual-composer

I see now that double-click does a reset to the default column split, but perhaps a kind of snap can be integrated into the drag, so you can easily create layouts with 2 columns but the split is onethird (33.3%) | twothirds (66.6%).

Also a preset row of columns might make things easier to build, e.g.
[onethird | twothirds] or [onequarter | threequarter ] or [threequarter | onequarter]

Maybe using half, thirds and quarter combos we have a nice set of “default” column splits.

Also dragging the blue bg should be possible, as many people will want to drag that as well as the button. Possibility to make drag possible on iPad (using touchdown event)

Then, where are your “default” blocks on your plugin screenshots:
Heading, Button, Call to Action
or are these widgets you’ve installed from the plugins library.

Another thing I find quite annoying with WordPress, is that the image and gallery uploader is so great, but the entire system lacks a universal auto-thumbnail generator (not just built-in present sizes), but allowing you at image insert and gallery insert to customize the sizes exactly. In widgets the image widget and the gallery widgets should be easier to use, similar to when you click on “edit” in gallery. But upon completion of the edit, it should show small thumbnails of the gallery and allow rearranging of the order. Perhaps this is just a widget thing, rather than a wordpress thing (as I’m still a newbie).

PS. All this pasting URLs is just a nightmare to me, because if your urls change, it breaks all the links. That won’t happen in Contao, as everything is hyperlinked to an internal DB code which is expanded to the local URL on rendering, making broken links a thing of the past.

I think your usage of only widgets is the best WordPress-like solution. Most existing users will quickly identify this widget approach.

I do think that more standard widgets then have to be written and they have to be more visual to kind of show a preview of the widget, so that its easier to build content visually.

I do recommend that your columns should somehow snap to some preset values, so that 29.678 should snap to 33.3% to make thirds, or perhaps you should have some toolbar buttons to create certain presets, legal thirds, fourths, fifths up to twelves. Either that, or I haven’t found these options.