Not Happy

  • Resolved levihe

    (@levihe)


    10 months, 1 week ago

    I know you probably have a vocal minority of users who wanted to complicate the heck out of their publishing process or somehow could figure out how to use a dropdown menu. But holy hell, guys! I manage 7 content sites, and you all literally took one of the reasons I use your plugin. (easy custom statuses with notifications) and just destroyed it. I’ve got multiple problems with this plugin.

    – There is no way to just use the basic functionality and a drop-down menu.

    – It messes with all of the save and publishing buttons, creating unnecessary steps and complications to simply saving a draft or scheduling a post.

    – I randomly can’t edit the excerpt field. No idea what’s up with that.

    -Scheduling a post requires setting a date, saving, and refreshing the page before the scheduling option shows up.

    I wanted to disable the plugin and find a simpler custom status plugin, but the planer won’t see the custom statuses made by the other plugin, so the notifications wouldn’t work in that case. This plugin is like hammering a photo-hanging nail with a sledgehammer. I like your other plugins, but this one, I feel, takes an issue you already solved and complicates the hell out of it for no reason.

    Is there some way I can keep statuses in their simpler form without exploding a glitter bomb on my editor? I’m sure there is a specific subset of the user who thinks this new functionality is great, and they can install the heck out of this plugin to their heart’s content. The rest of us don’t need it, and that’s one thing that drew me to you all in the first place the modular way I could use things.

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  • Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    Hi @levihe. Thanks for your feedback.

    Yes, we’re adding more features and trying to meet the needs of publishers who need more from WordPress.

    The old plugin system in Planner was 10+ years old and really was starting to creak. Maybe you didn’t see it as a user, but lots of our users did.

    If you stay on an older version of the Planner plugin, you can safely retain the previous settings.

    Thread Starter levihe

    (@levihe)

    Thanks for the quick reply @stevejburg. I like to keep the plugins updated. If I were to add custom statuses myself, is there a way for me to see those in the notifications part of the current planner plugin?

    • This reply was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by levihe.
    Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    Hi @levihe. Part of the problem is that there is no standard way to declare custom statuses in WordPress. So each plugin that tries to fill this gap does it differently.

    I’ll see if there’s alternatives but your best best is probably the older version of Planner or perhaps Edit Flow https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/edit-flow/

    Thread Starter levihe

    (@levihe)

    Ah, that makes sense. Can you shoot me a link to the most recent release of planner that has the old functionality? I know edit flow is not exactly a frequently managed plugin.

    Would the pro version give me any leg up on fixes updates or functionality in this regard?

    Thread Starter levihe

    (@levihe)

    Given that you all are pretty much the most updated outfit in town in this regard. Are you already aware of the following bugs

    – Clicking update saves the update but refreshing the page says changes may not be saved.

    – choosing a schedule time does not bring up the schedule option unless the page is refreshed.

    – Is it this plugin or checklists that’s randomly preventing the excerpt field from being edited?

    Plugin Author Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    You can grab old releases from the “PREVIOUS VERSIONS” area here: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/publishpress/advanced/

    We’ve not had any reports of these three bugs and I can’t recreate them here. Please feel free to send more details. The most helpful details would be screenshots and the steps we can take to re-create these issues.

    Thread Starter levihe

    (@levihe)

    Thanks,
    It turned out the bugs were being brought on by the checklists plugin enabled with the statuses plugin.

    I deactivated the checklists plugin and the issues stopped. I am continuing to use the statuses plugin with the checklists plugin disabled, as I need that functionality more.

    Plugin Author Kevin Behrens

    (@kevinb)

    @levihe FYI, the Gutenberg Publish / Schedule button labeling issue is just that: failure to refresh the caption. If you click “Publish” after setting a future date, it will actually schedule correctly. This is on my short list of fixes to chase down.

    I also already planned to provide a “status dropdown only” option in the plugin settings. I guess your gentle feedback was the reminder I needed, so watch for that soon.

    Thread Starter levihe

    (@levihe)

    Thanks for the feedback and for taking my initial frustration in stride. I don’t think I can edit it, but I change my initial title of not happy, to just inconvenienced at the time.

    I appreciate the active assistance and the work put into this plugin, as well as having a very usable free version with good pro upgrades.

    Thanks again

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