Jlwp

Hi thanks for your very thorough reply and troubleshooting steps.

I went thru all the steps and then clicked Generate again.

I did not see anything happening, so I went to do other things and came back to it about 30 minutes later and saw the Activity log screen and it showed a successful export.

I would like to suggest for your consideration to add some sort of indication right after clicking Generate that the Generate process has started.

All I see change in the GUI is that a button changes to pause and because of this there is no way of telling if Generate is proceeding or hung up. Because I see nothing for minutes, I go and do other things and come back to the plugin say 30 minutes later, not knowing if the process is proceeding or not and that is not a good user experience.

Even just a spinning disk, or popping up the Activity log screen right away with some message saying the process has started would be very helpful.

@shivamtyagi – Thanks for your reply. I do realize that removing “start” would break backwards compatitibility. I meant for the addition of eg “minimum-headings”.

As for “show or hide the TOC” I should have explained more clearly. You interpreted this to mean to show or hide the whole plugin ie that there is no TOC shown at all and therefore there is no option to show or hide the TOC.

But this is not what I mean – what I mean is to show the TOC in a page but be able to select to show the table of contents links either hidden or shown state. IE to select whether the “Show” or “Hide” feature has been activated.

The reason for this is SEO – If the TOC is at the top of the page and there are many entries in the TOC then the TOC pushes down the main content of the page below the fold (off screen) which is not good for SEO purposes. Best in this case to show the TOC initially hidden. If the TOC has only a few entries, then show the entries right away on page load. To be more clear what i mean is to add a parameter to the shortcode eg show-hide=hidden or show-hide=show. I hope this is more clear.

And I have another suggestion – If the TOC has a long list of contents ie many links, then this pushes down the content and this is not good for SEO purposes. One way to avoid this is for the TOC to appear over the contents – I successfully achieved this with your plugin using simple css including eg

z-index: 999; 

But I abandoned this because then I would need the plugin to show a small icon instead of “Contents [show]” to press and i did not know how to do this.

I found that in order to be able to fully modify this template, you need to have a post active, eg the “Hello world” post AND you must have a tag attached to this post.

I see. I re-evaluated the plugin and would like to make the following comments:

• Keep in mind when someone is evaluating a plugin, they want to quickly install it and see how it works – I did this and found the plugin very confusing
• Eg by default the plugin displays a small square chart icon, a table icon and a video play icon – not knowing how the plugin works I thought the play icon meant do the calculation not play a video
• It is not clear to potential users what these icons mean
• It is not clear that the calculator auto-updates when you change values – ie with many calculators you have to press a “Calculate” button – with this plugin it is not clear what to do
• I notice that when I remove the video option that the icons change to Repayment Chart and Loan Amortization Table – this is much more clear for a potential user
• I do not like the IMO ugly “Feel free to use our calculator” heading and I tried to remove it by entering no text for this field but the plugin still shows a solid bar where the text was and this should go away.
• I think the plugin has way too many settings – it is overwhelming eg all the color settings – this requires changing one color of many, refresing the calculator on the front end, seeing what the color change looks like, etc – This will take many iterations of this. Selecting themes would be much better.
• Many confusing things – eg the pie chart says “Monthly Payment<small>$</small>853.79Monthly for 1 Year(s) Total interest payable<small>$</small>245.48 over 1 Year(s)” but the pie chart display the total payment for one year not the monthly – ie you are saying monthly payment amount but displaying yearly
• Many unexplained features like a “Balloon” not sure what a balloon is in this case – also the Settings spell it as “Ballon”
• The payment table shows 1-$853.79 $37.50 $9183.71. Why is the first amount negative? Both the principal and interest are outflows and should have the same sign.
• Since it is easy to put a Youtube video in a page, before or after the calculator, I dont see the point of providing the option to show a video, and I especially dont see the point in enabling this by default and also showing a video about the plugin by default
• Etc

So I think there a lots of ways to improve this plugin.

Really wanted to change to 3 stars but I decided to go with 4 to encourage further development of this plugin

• This reply was modified 5 months, 2 weeks ago by Jlwp.

Thank you for your amazingly quick and helpful response.

Hi I looked at your screenshot and ALL code is in black – so it is NOT working.

I really do not know what you mean when you say it is working.

Also I do not think that a shortcode should be added – plus this is not helping.

if you look at the feature image (the very top image) of the plugin homepage – you will see that various code is shown in various colors. Eg “echo” is shown in red. Are you familiar with what the plugin is supposed to do? It is supposed to show various parts of code in different colors – this is what hiliting means – your screenshot does not show that.

Hello, I switched from Apache to Nginx and this fixed the issue 🙂

Thanks very much for the quick and very helpful reply.