[wp-hackers] Ajaxian Page Ordering for Wordpress

[Bernardo Santos]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the thoughtful comments.

I will put "Edit Page Order" on the top. The problem with "Next Page" you
might be referring to is probably that it takes some time to load the pages
from the server. Once a page has been loaded, it stays cached, so it loads
up instantly (the case of "Previous").

The "Page Refreshing" you mentioned is actually an animation for the page
transition. It can easily be changed to some other type (such as flashing,
etc), I added support for it in the component. It is there to make it
clearer to the user that something changed. If we turn it off (what is easy
to do as well), the next page appears instantly and the change is hard to
notice. I agree it can make things a little "bumpy" on the transition,
JavaScript is crappy on most browsers (I would say it is good on Safari and
decent on FF), specially if your machine is a little slow.

In the overall, the pagination of this component is a very hard problem to
solve,  due to nesting and the need to move one element from one page to the
other. Even with a lot of effort (I would say more than 50% of the work done
was related to pagination support), it is hard to find a way that it will
fell more natural to the user. So, I think pagination at a large number of
pages (50 or 100) is probably the best way to go. It will be there only for
those few users that actually need it (because they have hundreds of pages).

Cheers, Bernardo

On 9/5/07, Chris <chris.hearn01 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>
> Very good -
> Put the new "order pages" button at the _top) of the standard page list
> (or top and bottom) - it is not obvious the button exists when there are
> a lot of pages, and will save scrolling all the way down.
>
> I have added several more pages, to test 1st/last/middle screens on your
> "page order".
> It gets a bit exciting when trying to move a page with a lot of children
> to the "next Entries".
> I see that  you can move a group over more than one listing page by
> "hover over previous page", then move the mouse and hover it again (once
> you get used to it!)
> Doesn't work so well for "next" though, but I cant see how you could
> easily change it...
> It might be simpler, although less fancy, to simply keep the display
> constant, and when user drops a group of pages into previous or next,
> simply show the previous or next page with the dropped group at the top
> - yes it would take a second drag to position it on the new page, but
> may be clearer to users - something to think about maybe?
> The number of items on a listing page varies (I think) to keep child
> pages with the top level one - this is good - but dragging a large group
> to the bottom (to move them) the display can get rather confusing as it
> refreshes.
> Overall an very good feature.
> Chris
>
>
> David Weitz wrote:
> > You should have an Edit Page Order button on the top and bottom of the
> > Manage->Pages view. If you have a lot of categories, I wouldn't want
> > to scroll all the way down to click it.
> >
> > Bernardo Santos wrote:
> >> Hello everybody,
> >>
> >> As my Google Summer of Code project, I developed a "drag and drop"
> >> jQuery
> >> plugin with support for pagination whose main goal was to be used for
> >> easily
> >> ordering the pages in the WP. It is now integrated into WP and almost
> >> finalized.
> >>
> >> I set up a sandbox where you can test it. I would really appreciate
> >> if some
> >> of you could take a look at it and give me your thoughts and
> >> suggestions. I
> >> recommend you to use FF to test it (there is still a minor cosmetic
> >> issue in
> >> IE). More information on:
> >>
> >>
> http://bitsinashortbit.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/first-showcase-of-page-sorting-in-wordpress/
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Bernardo
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