Hi @washingtonirving,
Thanks for using our plugin and for reaching out!
Considering there’s the custom link icon, I’m not sure this would be a priority or within the plugin’s scope.
Remember – you can add text to the custom link, so it can say “Help” or “More Info” etc. right there on the button (assuming you’re not using the icons-only option)
Otherwise, it’s always possible to add a quick explainer right above/below the icons, separately from the plugin.
Well, it’s your plugin of course, but I run into trouble using these alternatives. On mobile, there’s no space for displaying the text on the button. And in my experience, the number of people interested in any topic still far exceeds the number that knows how podcasting works, leaving a huge audience potential untapped. So I’d like to argue once more that a help page should be an integral part of any subscribe tool.
Thanks again for making a great plugin. I really appreciate your work
I fully understand and agree that info on how podcasting works can be helpful, but I just don’t really see it as a core aspect of this specific plugin.
You can still add info right before/after the buttons, if you want to include some specific instructions or details about your podcast. There’s the custom link icon which you can redirect to a help page or to a “more info” section on the page.
Lastly, you can use some basic custom CSS if you want to replace a specific custom link icon with a some kind of “info” icon. This should be pretty simply to achieve.
The way I see it, it’s a bit beyond the scope of the plugin, and since there are a few easy ways to get passed that (as mentioned above), it probably won’t be added at the moment. I’ll keep track and see if more users ask for it, but for now it seems a bit like an edge case.
Please let me know if you have any questions or need an example for using CSS to change the icon.
The understanding is mutual, thanks for taking the time to discuss this. I’ll have a go at fixing this myself in css, thanks for the suggestion. If you could indeed post an example of how to do that kind of thing that would be great.
cheers
Sure, you can add something like this (assuming the info icon is the first icon in your list, otherwise use the exact ‘nth’ location or last-child)
li.secondline-psb-subscribe-custom:first-child img {
display: none;
}
li.secondline-psb-subscribe-custom:first-child:before {content: "i";display: inline-block;margin-right: 20px;padding: 10px;background: #1903d4;border-radius: 50px;width: 10px;height: 10px;line-height: 10px;text-align: center;color: #fff;font-weight: 700;}
This would then look like this –
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Thanks, it doesn’t work right straight away, probably because it’s a different font but I think I get the idea. I’ll fiddle a bit. Nice to learn new tricks. Thanks again.
