Nice Plugin, but…

Hi,

You can change font size using CSS. Unfortunately, the described functionality is not available. If you want, you can request a paid customization and provide all the details in a private ticket on our support forum https://support.bestwebsoft.com/.

Regards,
BestWebSoft Support Team.

Hi,

I do agree that “wants” could certainly be requested as a paid customization. However we’re a small start-up and simply can’t afford that at the moment.

What I certainly do NOT agree with is the fact that all the “normal” (!!) text is bold and that we need to adjust that in CSS. That makes no sense at all. That’s like creating a document and writing all content bold. Why would you do that? And how do you emphasize on certain parts of the text, if you can’t write anything else bold (and underline looks like a hyperlink, so can’t do that either) because all the text is bold already. For me that’s clearly a design flaw and should be fixed from your side without having to ask everyone who’s downloading your plugin to do it manually in CSS or pay for this change… not to mention that many people using plugins probably don’t know CSS (hence the reason why they use plugins in first place?!).

I do understand that you want to make money, but that’s not the way it should be done. Otherwise you might as well offer your plugin and then say “oh sorry, if you want to actually save any data, you have to request a paid customisation to get a save button in our plugin”. I think personally my approach on being customer friendly is most probably a bit different. And certainly you must agree, if you already have that attitude towards customer, I’d rather look for a different plugin than actually wasting money on a paid customisation for your plugin knowing that you’d probably screw me over again some other time when I think a functionality is not as intended/would make sense – just so you get more money out of me.

Honestly… even trial/donation plugins have a more customer-friendly approach and I’d rather pay for that than using the “free” parts of your plugin. ??

But that’s just my personal opinion.

Hi again,

Our plugin uses the styles of your current theme, and thus, it does not highlight vacancy content in bold. Only the key words “Organization, Location, Salary” are highlighted in the following way. Please try activating a standard WP theme (2013 or 2014) and see for yourself.

Also, as you did not provide a link to your webpage, we cannot check how our plugin works on your website. If possible, could you please provide this link in a private ticket on our support forum https://support.bestwebsoft.com/, so that we could examine your problem and find the most appropriate solution?

Also, we kindly ask you to provide a link to the page with the problem. This way, we could tell you which CSS styles exactly can be added to fix it.

Regards,
BestWebSoft Support Team.

Hi,

yes, I do know that it uses the theme of our website, but that’s why I call it a flaw… it shouldn’t be H1, IMHO?! From a designer’s perspective, H1 should be the MAIN headline, the headline that tops all other headlines. Now using your plugin, I really don’t see why a subheadline (as in the listing or other areas) would use H1, it should make sense that H1 should be used for the page’s name (i.e. “our vacancies”) and as your plugin then is the sub-content… anything below that H2. If I remember correctly, at that stage I had two h1 on the same page, the page’s name and then your plugin. Highly unlogical to me.

The same with the bold text. I really don’t see why one would write the whole excerpt in bold on a job listing/overview site, for reasons I’ve listed in my previous comment.

Please, don’t get me wrong… I do know how to use CSS, I know how to fix it, that doesn’t mean that I agree on how you’ve done it with your plugin. So this wasn’t a support request. Originally this was a suggestion how to improve your plugin to make it more appealing for others (especially the ones that don’t know how to use CSS) and maybe eventually for us (by at least adding the ‘wants’… the ‘flaws’ would then be worth the effort to fix myself).

If you think my suggestions to improve your plugin (as what I listed under flaws/wants) are not appealling to you or only worth money to either attract (or in my case get rid) of (potential) customers, that’s fair enough.

As originally said, I think the idea and the simplicity of the plugin are great; I just really don’t understand your idea or more importantly the logic of your design. I am not going to install your plugin just to demonstrate that. I am sure you guys can easily figure that out yourselves.

Anyhow, take my feedback or leave it. I actually rarely post feedback but I thought your plugin has great potential and would be worth the effort.

Hi,

The majority of our users prefer the plugin that uses theme styles, which correspond to those of WordPress. When using a standard theme (2013, 2014), vacancy title is located within H2 heading, while page title is placed within H1 title.

You can see for yourself that our plugin does not create top level headings by searching ‘h1’ in the plugin code.

Also, as we have written before, when using a standard theme, only key words are highlighted in bold, not the vacancy text itself.

We are very grateful for your feedback. We appreciate your opinion and we will be working on improving our product.

Regards,
BestWebSoft Support Team.