[Ian]

Thought I would add this as a separate item.

I am absolutely convinced that your greatest asset is the Swift Page Builder not necessarily your individual themes. With that in mind I would suggest that you focus most of your energy on the builder and refining its implementation.

I would also suggest a tutorial on creating (new) or converting (visual composer) addons to Swift Page Builder elements. This would allow third party developers to work on more niche elements while allowing your team to concentrate on core functions.

From a marketing point of view it would not hurt to have a number of codecanyon listings that say “Built for Swift Page Builder”.

Thanks for your hard work.

-Ian

[Ian]

Hi Guys,

Themes I am currently using:
Uplift, Atelier, Cardinal, Dante

Most of my suggestions are more aimed at the Swift Page Builder as opposed to how these are implemented into specific themes.

Directory:
Directory Page
1. Default map pin
2. Custom field for what is display in pop-up
3. Have listing title link to single listing page
4. Ability to show hide featured image in pop-up
5. Some css classes on pop-up divs to make styling easier
6. Finer controls on what is displayed (map)(map & List)(Simple list just title & category or location)(map & simple list)
7. Cluster markers (nice to have)

Single Directory Page
1. Ability to style map to match main directory page
2. Add get directions button to map pin
3. Shortcode for get directions button that uses the longitude and latitude for the directory item
4. Easily hide comment, sharing, etc.
5. Add Page meta discussed later

Search
1. Control what post types show up in search (simple implementation like what post types you can use in page builder would be great)
2. Control the order that post type show up in search, this would be nice for overlay results like in Atelier

SPB Sections
I love SPB sections and think they could be used to greater effect.
1. When adding a modal button have the ability to choose an SPB section (Yes a warning that these should not be overly complex may be in order) but this would make managing modals much easier.
2. Inject SPB Sections into layout directly without using the builder (before footer, before header, before content, after content) would make site wide marketing or notifications much simpler.

Page Builder Elements
1. Adding a <canvas> element to rows would help with targeting HTML 5 animations etc.
2. Blog, the post type override is great but choosing a taxonomy other than category to limit posts and filter posts would be great. (this goes for recent posts as well)
3 Full screen video for local video

Page Meta
My previous suggestions about being able to add and remove page meta from post types. This would make hiding unneeded items from users simpler and adding meta to custom post types simpler as well.

Page Builder User Restrictions
Show hide and restrict page builder elements based on user level.
1. Remove page builder elements for specific user levels
2. Allow certain user levels to only edit page builder elements not add or remove them.
3. Allow certain user levels to only load pre built page layouts
This is something that DIVI has recently done and has made handing off websites to clients much easier to manage.

I apologize for the long list but I am an invested user in your themes and would like to see them continue to improve and prosper. If you would like to discuss any of these ideas further please feel free to contact me directly. 🙂

-Ian

[Ian]

Thanks Ed,

Page headings, page header and page meta would be a great start. I have made these changes for some of my custom post types and it sure helps the site feel more cohesive.

-Ian

[Ian]

Rui,

The modal pop-up should be using the custom excerpt or better yet another custom field that could be made even shorter. I have been forced to include:

.pinmarker-container .excerpt{
display: none;
}

in all of my projects, because the pop-up is full of shortcodes.

I am hoping that this could be made a priority to fix as I use this in a large number of websites that I would prefer not to have to integrate a third party plugin.

-Ian

[Ian]

Just sent some suggestions on how to improve this for all custom post types.

Page Meta Suggestions

-Ian

[Ian]

Rui,

Thanks for the help.

I did find the problem it was “Toolset Views” plugin. This is a common plugin so your users might want to know they need to use the legacy maps mode in “Toolset Views” and also add the “Toolset Maps” plugin as well with their google maps API Key.

[Ian]

YEP looks like Chrome is giving me all sorts of problems.

Thanks

[Ian]

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[Ian]

Can “meta-boxes.php” be moved into a child theme in order to preserve changes?

[Ian]

Would love to see that one as well!

-Ian

[Ian]

Thanks Ed good to here you are still working on the speed of existing themes.

-Ian

[Ian]

le_he

Here is a code snippet that you can modify and it may help you with your problem. I was having a similar problem that was made even worse by some extra custom post types I am using.

Include only the post types in the array that you want searched, everything else will be ignored.

You can add this to your functions.php file if you are using a child theme or I use a plugin called “Code Snippets” that makes managing snippets super easy.

function filter_search($query) {
    if ($query->is_search) {
    $query->set('post_type', array('product','page', 'herb', 'recipe', 'post'));
    };
    return $query;
};
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'filter_search');

Hope this helps!

-Ian

[Ian]

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[Ian]

David,

From what I see this will allow me to translate all the text strings used by Atelier, but what I am look for is a French logo in French version of site and English version of Logo in English site.

-Ian

[Ian]

OK found the tag line but not the logo.