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Shortcake makes using WordPress shortcodes a piece of cake.
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Idea: 2 column layout instead of tabs: attributes & preview #220

Open bfintal opened 9 years ago

bfintal commented 9 years ago

I was testing out some shortcodes a while ago and I found myself editing the shortcode and going back to the UI a lot just to change some fields.

I would like to suggest that UI layout be changed into 2 columns: left side for the attribute editing and right side would be for the preview. The preview would refresh when an attribute is changed (with a refresh throttler).

Personally, with the current tabbed layout, I almost never use the preview tab unless I remember that it's there. That's just me though.

Thoughts?

danielbachhuber commented 9 years ago

The preview would refresh when an attribute is changed (with a refresh throttler).

See some past conversation in #61 about why it was implemented as it was. I agree that live preview would be ideal, but it's a crappy UX unless it's realtime.

Related #104