The Change You Want to See
Hi Guys, Karl again.
Hope everyone is well and thank you to all the subscribers of this blog. Welcome back.
I’ve decided to move One Panel to a faster release cycle (2-3 weeks), implementing less features, more often. The question is ‘what do you need now?’ I have a list as long as my arm of the features I thought about implementing during the 2.0 release, but I’m interested in what you guys feel is missing from One Panel.
If you have an idea then add it to the comments. If you agree with someone else then just type the comment number and say ‘+1′ please (or even ‘++’ if you are a geek like me). The suggestions with the most ‘+1’s will get implemented first.
Here are some of the ideas I had:
Highlights
Allow for featuring of posts, pages, video’s and eternal links.
Thumbnail Generator
Add an interface for the thumbnail generator to the WordPress ‘Edit/Add Post’ page.
Menu Builder
Allow for manual building of menu’s, choosing the posts or pages to add to a specific menu.
Contact Form
Addition of a module that allows manual entry of SMTP server details to ensure emails reach their destination.
I will also be having a look at the suggestion box in the forum long term.
Thanks guys!
Hey,
I would love it if you could make the thumbnail generator do the work by itself i.e whenever i post an article with a picture, the thumbnail generator finds the pics by itself without me having to scan for the pics.( if that makes sense)
Great suggestion Fahad thank you! Certainly doable.
Karl, you guys rock. Are you still looking at ways to try to speed up load times ? Getting anywhere ? That is the single biggest issue I have. I think it should rank near the top.
Hi Tom, and thank you.
Speeding up One Panel’s performance has been a bi-product of refactoring a lot of the code. I will certainly catch some of the more labor intensive theme-serving functions as a result of this, but there will be other things I can look at at the theme level to increase speed. Are you talking specifically about the default theme?
wicked
Hey Karl,
Just a quick question. I was wondering about duplicate content with wordpress. I read that wordpress generates a lot of duplicate content when you post your article, especially when you have sub-categories. Is one-theme made in such a way that that google does not penalize us for duplicate content?
Hi Fahad,
I don’t have an answer for you right now, but I will keep it in my thoughts and do some research
[...] The Change You Want to See [...]
I try to explain better, but sorry for my bad english!
in Highlights all the category has to work like FeaturedPost, so I can choose the title of each post!
Disable the Hot Conversation for some posts, or better, excluded some “title” (posts) from the “Hot Converation”
Hey Karl!
Perhaps it is not part of your priorities right now, but I thought it might be a good idea to have the possibility to switch between “justify” OR “aligned left” text. I’ve noticed that often blog post titles come out ugly when featured (too much spacing between words). The same thing happens within the body as well. If I were you I’d switch everything to the “aligned left” format, but then again that’s just me!
Hope this makes sense?!
If not there’s a cool link that talks about the justify vs aligned left debate! Worth having a look here: http://www.webmasterworld.com/css/3248536.htm
Cheers,
Mike
I agree with comment #10 and give it a big +1. As someone with a degree in graphic design and communication, flush left text is much easier to read in long passages, especially online.
Justified text is really just an old typesetting carry-over from the lead type days. Though some publishers continue use justified text and hyphenation to minimize the amount of paper used.
Flush left and rag right is really the new standard and it maximizes readability. And after all, isn’t that what we want them to do… read our posts and keep reader retention?
Seriously, I’m really glad to see this issue come up. As much fun as One-Theme is, I might have ditch it for all my clients, as the readability complaints keep coming in.
I’d love to keep using One-Theme, but unless you introduce some kind of Typography controls, where we can choose serif or sans serif, justified or flush left, I may not be able to. The clients “readers” have spoken.
I hope this helps.