Hi,
I’ve using this theme for about five years. No other news theme comes close to offering what you guys do and that too with great efficiency. I’ll be forever grateful.
From time to time, I like to make feature suggestions and recommendations. I’ve noted a few of them in my diary over the last couple weeks that I’d like to share.
Display all posts in a single line using flex block: Flex blocks offer great flexibility. So naturally it becomes first choice to display posts. It would be amazing to have a flex block that could display posts using slider. Something like choosing to display 12 posts in a single line, with only 3-4 displayed in the viewport; in mobile devices, just one. With the rest of them being accesible using slider. If you’re wondering, I am, indeed, familiar with the next/prev pagination but they’re not very intuitive and user-freindly for mobile devices because it stacks the articles over one another so if there are 4 articles visible on desktop, on mobile they stack up. So if a user has click on next, they would have to scroll down a bit to see the first article at the top. I am talking about something like the bottom row of Big Grid Flex 9, but with flex block’s customizability.
Menu specific module for popups: The introduction of popup to the theme has solved a lot of problems and has provided new oppurtunities. Having a stand-alone modal module for desktop/mobile hamburger menu will be greatly appreciated. For example, instead of button trigger, you can give a menu icon as trigger(without ability to change) that turns into(animated) a cross/close button when clicked, and can itself close the popup without requiring another close button on the popup, an option to set top offset relative to menu as in search feature so that it doesn’t cover the logo, etc.
Menu description: An option to add description to menu items(independent of category/tag descriptions) that would appear below menu and sub-menu items in various menu shortcodes like, header menu, mobile menu, list menu (extended shortcode), etc.
Limiting excerpts/title length using lines rather than words/character: Commonly, we use word or character limits to determine the length of excerpts/titles which often results in uneven display of modules because some excerpts/titles take up more space than others due to variation in word length or character width. So, number of lines limit can help achieve uniformity in the way modules look because all the excerpts/titles would take up the same amount of space, i.e. two lines, three lines, etc. I am not sure if it’s achievable, just suggesting.
You can ask for more details if need be.
Please bear in mind that these are mere recommendations — not demands.
Good day.
