Clicking save button gives error page

Felix, apologies for the delay.

But… don’t take away its powers!

I won’t, just trying to neaten things up so it’s easier to work on in the future. 2 steps forward, 1 step back. My priority right now is to build a stable code base (rather than new features), so your feedback is much appreciated.

1. missing toggle functionality (clicking 2nd time on same link does not making slide up the panel)

This was actually the way I intended it to work to begin with. But now I am not so sure.

If the menu item has a sub menu, the first click opens the sub menu, the second goes to the link location. To close the panel you can click anywhere on the page.

How do you think it should work? Just toggle the panel? (I am happy to go with whatever people think :)) (If that’s the case then it’s never possible to actually go to where the link points to, which is fine, just not sure about either approach!)

2. “configure panel widgets for…”: inserting a larger widget, clicking the mouse button on the scroll bar to the right, makes the widget close and adhere toe the cursor as a draggable object. So you cannot save the widget. Scrolling with the mouswheel works.(try with Image Widget).

Are you using a mac by any chance? It automatically hides the scrollbar for me too, it seems like its a mac setting. I will revert that if it’s not user friendly and go back to a long panel which doesn’t scroll instead.

In the plugin’s style sheet I found a rule: li.mega-menu-item {float: left;} which makes all items in the widgets float to the left side. I tried to neutralize float: none; in the custom editor, but didn’t work. Styling the widget should be easier.

Good spot, it doesn’t look like it’s needed. The CSS has been tweaked hundreds, if not thousands of times during development to get it to where it is now, so there are bits to tidy up still. I’ve removed that in the dev version ??

Hi Tom,
I’ve tested over hundred plugins and ended up with just 5 that really served. So what really matters talking about plugins, are 4 important cornerstones: 1. usability, 2. correct coding, no conflicts, 3. easy and quick styling and 4. active maintenance.
People rely on a good working plugin as they are often crucial to their websites. And than you are overloaded with “thank you” and… donations!!!

Looking to no.1 usability, we’re using a smartphone or a tablet and that means touching, touching and more touching. It has substituted the mouse click, the hover and the hover out. I hold my finger ready to touch a link, it keeps their to touch the same link and then that finger is directed to the following link. Easy, comfortable and fast. OK, if my finger is directed somewhere else on that little screen, it can close the panel by touching anywhere. Easy, comfortable and fast. Keep the touch!
In a modern menu bar you find buttons that opens a flyout menu or panel, just that and with a little arrow to indicate its working, and if no children exists, the button itself is a link to an URL. That’s useful and practical too.

About the widget’s behaviour I think the best way is what you suggested: to show the whole widget. Practical too: users can easily oversee what they’re doing and won’t forget to enter all fields. It is very frustrating to have things done twice ore more because of the unnecessary limitations of a plugin. Practical too should be adding an alert, down of the widget in the colorbox panel to the left or right side, showing a text like widget added as soon the user clicked the save button of the widget. Because right now nothing happens, no signs at all.

No, I’m not using a mac and that particular behaviour was not there before you did that famous JS cleaning! ??

Also very useful is an information tooltip to the right side of the “select a widget to display… field, telling about its use (the big tags, inserting more widgets). Because most of the downloads of your plugin are performed by users to be taken by the hand, few are developers!

Well, I hope my input and thoughts are helping you to sort things out. I’m sure this plugin will help many people in the next few weeks to enhance their websites with a smooth and shining menu bar!
Felix