Declutter Settings page

markcheret / footnotes

footnotes aims to be the all-in-one solution for displaying an automatically-generated list of references on your WordPress Page or Post.

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Declutter Settings page #161

Open Rumperuu opened 3 years ago

Rumperuu commented 3 years ago

@markcheret in https://github.com/markcheret/footnotes/discussions/129:

I just had a look at the settings page for footnotes. Wow. That has exploded since I last thoroughly checked it!!!

Erm... It needs decluttering. At least visually.

Either the postboxes need to be closed by default when opening the settings or we move some (less used and special cases) over to an "Expert Mode" page. Also, all those explanations need to be either made more end-user readable or hidden and accessible via a mouse-over á la "?" .

I'll post a few screenshot suggestions in a bit, just wanted to kick off the discussion here.

Rumperuu commented 3 years ago

@Rumperuu in #129:

Yeah, I was going to make an Issue for this actually. As far as I can tell, it's a mix of settings that don't need to be there in the first place (e.g., #48 (comment)), settings that have been introduced in response to a single bug report and settings that are good to have but need better presentation. Adding an ‘Advanced Settings’ tab is a good shout.

Rumperuu commented 3 years ago

Absolute vibes whilst looking at the settings menu atm:

markcheret commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/ahmadawais/WP-OOP-Settings-API might help us?!

Rumperuu commented 3 years ago

I've collected all of the settings into a spreadsheet to help with the 3.0 refactor (see 3.0-redo-settings branch).

settings.ods

markcheret commented 3 years ago

@Rumperuu thank you for this overview. 106 Settings??? Oh my word!