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TomodomoCo / total-slider

A WordPress plugin for creating, editing and removing ‘slides’ with text and images (for a homepage, for example).
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Slide preview in the widget manager #20

Open chrisvanpatten opened 12 years ago

chrisvanpatten commented 12 years ago

I think it'd be neat to have a "slide group preview" in the widget manager area, so you can more easily see what you're getting when you go to add a given slide group.

It might look like this: https://img.skitch.com/20120803-qxf9qyywd7d3w5cr6xwxja9nxs.jpg

So when you select a slide group, you can immediately see the theme name and a preview of the slides. It would show the slides in some kind of preview: either in some kind of slide animation (like the old YouTube style where you could hover back and forth across an image to see others) or just in a grid of small thumbnails.

I can mock this up in HTML and send it your way at some point in the next little while.

PeterUpfold commented 12 years ago

I'm working on this now.

I suppose the key question here is -- how much of a preview is this, from a WYSIWYG point of view? Presumably we can't render the whole template PHP file in the small space we have available, and the text would be unreadable even if we could.

So, do we just show a slideshow of the background images (pulled from WordPress' thumbnails) to give the right impression?

chrisvanpatten commented 12 years ago

No WYSIWYG at all. I think it's just a slideshow of the background images (maybe we can figure out a way to show the caption as well?), or even a tiled display of them, with a text display of the chosen theme.

I totally meant to do a proper mockup of this but I've been slammed with various emergencies over the past few days. Sorry!!

chrisvanpatten commented 12 years ago

I think the lighter this is (in terms of loading dependencies and such) the better. Let's keep it simple. A tiled display, with tooltips to show the text, is probably good enough.