raindog308 Posted June 4, 2012 Posted June 4, 2012 This is a sort of meta-IP suggestion. In Wordpress, to move widgets (boxes which contain HTML, shortcodes, content, etc.) to different columns, etc., there is a nice drag and drop screen. It's really quite elegant and easy to use. In IP products, if you want to place a block, you have to get into template logic and type code. It would be nice if there was a way to look at your board/blog/content/etc.'s page in a kind of design view and move blocks around visually, as you can in WP. As an example I recently found...it is trivially easy to create a forum feed of recent topics from a specific forum as an IP.Content block (it's just a next/next/next wizard kind of thing). But to actually put it on a sidebar for the board requires navigating through dense html templates. I'm not saying it's a huge burden or anything but it's sure a lot more work and a lot less user-friendly than WP. A new user is likely to spend significant time just locating which template to edit. Just a thought.
Marcher Technologies Posted June 6, 2012 Posted June 6, 2012 This is a sort of meta-IP suggestion. In Wordpress, to move widgets (boxes which contain HTML, shortcodes, content, etc.) to different columns, etc., there is a nice drag and drop screen. It's really quite elegant and easy to use. In IP products, if you want to place a block, you have to get into template logic and type code. It would be nice if there was a way to look at your board/blog/content/etc.'s page in a kind of design view and move blocks around visually, as you can in WP. As an example I recently found...it is trivially easy to create a forum feed of recent topics from a specific forum as an IP.Content block (it's just a next/next/next wizard kind of thing). But to actually put it on a sidebar for the board requires navigating through dense html templates. I'm not saying it's a huge burden or anything but it's sure a lot more work and a lot less user-friendly than WP. A new user is likely to spend significant time just locating which template to edit. Just a thought. is not ajax drag+drop... but seems closer? exploiting the hook system to inject blocks into the skin output is feasibly doable.
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