Gallery Options Cleanup Discussion

[bearded-avenger]

Currently a user creates a WordPress gallery using native WordPress controls. That gallery is then extended with custom options in the form of post meta.

While this has served its purpose, I think it's time to clean this up.

One idea is to move the options that are in post meta, to the gallery settings modal. Since the user is already going to choose the gallery type in that area, it just makes sense for the user to adjust any other available options in the same area.

Example:

There's one major area that will need focus:

• when a user updates the plugin to this new version, the existing post meta must be mapped to the new fields in the gallery settings modal so that no gallery data is lost

  Ewwness with this

The only thing about this is that, all the other options for components are edited within the post in the story generator. So a user would still need to come back to this gallery screen to edit these options in the gallery settings modal.

I don't see another way around this other than somehow letting galleries be created within the story generator modal. But then we lose the easy organization of multiple galleries. Thoughts?

[bearded-avenger]

closing in favor of https://github.com/bearded-avenger/aesop-core/issues/177