A much needed plugin.

  • Shane Spinuzzi

    (@shanespinuzzi)


    11 years, 10 months ago

    New Review

    Any discrepancy listed below has been fixed or is in the process of being worked on. I am happy to see this plugin and it’s authors are taking a proactive approach in making this a better plugin.

    Suggestions, or feature request are encouraged. Freelancing Care would love to hear from you.

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    Old Review

    This plugin comes with multiple problems.

    1. The developer does not respond to any form of support inquires.

    2. The countdown clock displays the wrong time.

    3. The social media links do not display the proper URL’s.

    4. Social Media links are not displayed on all background types.

    5. If you click on the Support Options tab located in your administration ares the help tab will disappear and the Support Options Tab is rendered useless. The same thing goes with the Help tab.

    6. The company logo does not get displayed unless you are using an animated background.

    7. There is an annoying box that is displayed when using the YouTube video option.

    8. There is no way to use a custom background from the plugin options.

    9. The words “Get In Touch” is displayed above the social media links and can not be removed or customized.

    10. The simple image background type displays the words “we will be right back within,”. The text can not be removed or modified.

    11. Did not care to test the Roles functionality because I am the only person logging into my site, and nothing else worked properly so I opted not waste the time. Sorry.

    This plugin should be labeled as Alpha because this not even Beta quality, and is no where near production ready.

    I know the developer worked hard on this plugin and as harsh as I may sound this is an honest review.

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  • Plugin Author Md Nurullah

    (@nirob19)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for your kind review.

    1. Actually i was in at Eid Festival Vacation. So i did late to reply your post. I already helped you there and solved your problem. 🙂
    2. Actually you need to put the estimate maintenance ending time there. May be you already figured it out.
    3. You need to put “http://” before your link to avoided any error. I already updated plugin version for you. Plz re download that and follow example placeholder link.
    4. There have 6 different template and every template have own style. If you want to show the social area just select “block” from drop down menu. Example : http://s5.postimg.org/vdoo93j6v/freelancingcare_2014_08_05.jpg
    5. Please PM me about that issue.
    6. On our next version we will give logo support for every template.
    7. To remove the confusion i will add a menu for documentation soon. Thanks for your nice feedback.
    8. Nice idea. I will include it in our next version 5.0
    9. On next version there will have option to change all the text lebel. Thanks for your feedback
    10. You should modify the template yourself for that. But i will add option to change all the template text.
    11. It works properly. Thanks for your time.

    Thanks for your nice and long feedback to make improve our plugin. Obviously i appreciate it. I was in vacation, so i did late to reply you..i am really sorry for that once again.

    I hope you will re-consider your ratting now. 🙂

    Thanks

    advail

    (@advail)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    The problem with editing the templates is when the next update comes out the changes maybe over written.

    Thread Starter Shane Spinuzzi

    (@shanespinuzzi)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    I wonder if that would include custom templates as well.

    @Freelancing_Care

    A custom template would be a good idea for users but advail does bring up a good point.

    What if there were a folder to put custom templates in that would not be affected by an update. Then users can create custom templates or modify an existing one and stash them in the custom folder with out worrying about their custom or modified theme being affected.

    Of course development documents would be need on how to create the custom templates, but it would get users to interact with your plugin more. It would be more user friendly I think.

    PS: You can’t edit posts so how would I go about re-rating my review? Do I have to submit another review?

    Plugin Author Md Nurullah

    (@nirob19)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    @advail
    Yes… next release v5 will be more user friendly with lots of new options in settings page. You already reported about 2 bug for that plugin in our support forum.

    @shane Spinuzzi
    If user will upload their own template in template directory, there need some modification in settings.php page too to show the template path.

    $templates = array();
    $templates[0]="Still_Image_Background";
    $templates[1]="Yoututbe_Video_Background";
    $templates[2]="CSS3_Background_Animation1";
    $templates[3]="CSS3_Background_Animation2";
    $templates[4]="CSS3_Background_Animation3";
    $templates[5]="Simple_Image_Background";

    So i think development documents would be give this type of functional work guideline.
    In onr next v5 release, i will definitely work to make that plugin more user friendly and attractive. I have plan to integrate premium quality coming soon template too there. So it will take some time to release next version.

    PS: It would be great if you re submit anther review with new rating. Thanks for your time.

    Thread Starter Shane Spinuzzi

    (@shanespinuzzi)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    @Freelancing_Care

    I like the idea it is very simple to add templates, however what about a more user friendly approach for those who do not know php or would be afraid to modify the code. It still seams like the additional templates would be lost with updates and/or upgrades though. If you as the developer needs to modify the settings.php file and release it as an update then how would that affect any current custom settings in the settings.php file. Would that still over write any changes made to the file by users?

    What if the template array was built from the results stored in the database? Then the users can add and delete as many templates as they would like without being affected by the changes made to the settings.php file. Well providing the update does not have a bug that would disable this functionality.

    If you don’t mind me suggesting possible options to this potential issue then here you go. This is what I would do.

    You could use the add_option() and get_option() functions then pull them from the database in a foreach loop returning the values in the database allowing the user to select the one that they would like.

    I saw this example awhile ago when looking for ideas for another project. Below is the forum post I came across when searching for help to the issues I previously had.

    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/trying-to-use-add_option-to-add-an-array-and-get_option-to-access-it?replies=4

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    It is minor but I found a bug with the social media links while using ssl. The social media icons do not display when viewing your (the person using the plugin) website in https.

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    Regarding The Support Options Tab Issue (quoted below)

    “If you click on the Support Options tab located in your administration ares the help tab will disappear and the Support Options Tab is rendered useless. The same thing goes with the Help tab.”

    I sent you a private message via Facebook. If you would like me to contact you another way about that issue please let me know.

    Thank You,

    Shane

    PS: I am not sure if anyone else is experiencing the Support Tab issue but it is really annoying. I have to deactivate the plugin in order to use that tab.

    Plugin Author Md Nurullah

    (@nirob19)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    I used <link href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> font awesome from bootstrap CDN for social icons. On next release i will create local path for font awesome. Hope it will solve that issue. If it will go wrong then i will use bootstrap icon.

    It would be great if you can give me a screenshot of your SUPPORT TAB ISSUE for better understand your problem.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter Shane Spinuzzi

    (@shanespinuzzi)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    @Freelancing_Care

    Please check your PM

    Plugin Author Md Nurullah

    (@nirob19)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Yes.. I am on the conversation with you in facebook

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