Feature Suggestions

After just installing the theme I’m finding some things that I think might might make it better or that I found confusing. I thought I’d drop a line and share in the hopes of making the next version even better!

1- Sidebars Organization: Organize the sidebar listing in the widget section to more accurately show their true location. IE: the top right “social” sidebar lists under the “newspaper default” one on a clean install. It might make more sense to have this sidebar listed at the top since that’s it’s true location in the layout. (it was confusing when I had a recent post widget showing up in this sidebar and displaying in the top menu. Didn’t seem intuitive that this would be a sidebar nor did the description of the sidebar really describe it’s location or purpose)

2- Widget styles – Perhaps be a bit more descriptive in style names? IE: in the social icons icon style 1 could be “full color” and style 3 “light on dark” and style 4 “dark on dark”… just makes it easier to choose styles if we have some idea other than 1,2,3..ect…

Not sure if it’s just me after toying with a few themes, but a default child theme install with demo content seems to have some inactive sidebars by default with tagdiv widgets in them. At first my “social icon” sidebar actually had a recent post widget already assigned.

IE:

Inactive Sidebar (not used)
Inactive Sidebar (not used)
This sidebar is no longer available and does not show anywhere on your site. Remove each of the widgets below to fully remove this inactive sidebar.
[tagDiv] Block 4
Inactive Sidebar (not used)
This sidebar is no longer available and does not show anywhere on your site. Remove each of the widgets below to fully remove this inactive sidebar.
[tagDiv] Popular category
Inactive Widgets
Drag widgets here to remove them from the sidebar but keep their settings.

So far awesome theme!!! Just thought I’d pass along some things I noticed as I went through the install process. If it’s not helpful tell me! LOL, otherwise I’ll add more feedback as I come across it.

in the theme panel categories section, the option “BACGROUND STYLE” should be spelled “background” and the options are “stretch” and “title” which, i’m sure, should be “tiled”.

COOL FUTURE FEATURE REQUEST: maybe be able to assign a page to display category listings? The page builder would be an awesome thing to have access to at the category listing pages! particularly to list sub categories and such in a similar way to the home page.

I”m probably picky, but the titles of the demo content posts are identical in many cases. It would be better for demo purposes if every demo post had a unique title as well as unique content / featured image. It’s just confusing sometimes to be playing around, say with setting a category for a post to see where it shows up and then to be confused because multiple posts have the same title.

Again, if it’s too much feedback, let me know! LOL… just sending along notes to try and give some good feedback.

• This reply was modified 12 years by regmanabq.

I”m also confused with the demo content pages. I have different pages with the same title, but they seem to be different. I’m sure one of them is the “magazinely” layout I’m looking for from the demo site, but it’s hard to figure out which one it is. Suggest more descriptive titles.

This is what I have:
Home
Home
Home
Homepage 2
Homepage 3
Homepage 4

it’s just confusing. Even if it were home, and then homepage 1-5, it might make more sense.