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You do not have to read any of it.
Wishing you a pleasant day.
Thank you.

Hi Tom,
The theme may not have a user friendly way of making the adjustments.
If MMM had a method of applying padding to its self, then it may not be needed some of the time, but it would be available for when it is needed.
It can act as a “kicker” to move the menu.

In our particular case, the theme uses a top menu that is almost pure text in display. It has at least three lines available. The native menu position is justified vertically to middle (I am guessing from the appearance).
But MMM postions vertically at the top of the three lines.
Doesn’t look so great.

To a certain extent, as soon as a user makes use of a megamenu plugin, then they are clearly not satisfied with that aspect of the theme.
There is the measure of appearance, and the measure of function.
Sometimes, function is more important than appearance (such as actually being able to see all the items in a menu, rather than have them disappear when you try to scroll down to them).
So MMM provides very good function.

It has all the capabilities, to do what is being requested – it’s just whether there is a desire for having that functionality .

An expression of priorities ;
I don’t mind steam rolling over the present theme, especially if it not only functions better, but actually looks better too.
When time and priorities allow, this theme will be dumped, but MMM will continue (unless the next theme comes with a mega menu).

If desired, such group of horizontal and vertical settings could be accompanied with a statement such as “These adjustments are made available to force the positioning of the MMM. But the authors recommend making the adjustments from within your theme, if that is possible.”

Thanks

Hi megamenu (@megamenu),

Thanks for the info.
My thought is “what about the next person?”.
The method you have described to achieve the result, is a good “work around” to obtain the result.

My suggestion though, is to have this feature easily useable from within the plugin.
So perhaps your method could be written in to the program ;
either
a) as part of the help system, so users can do it manually long hand each time.
or
b) write it in to the code, so its as easy as dragging a slider, or typing in a number (%).

A method of adjusting vertical alignment/justification or positioning/margin has yet to be described.

Thank you for your help.

Hi sleazelouise (@sleazelouise) & Emre Vona (@emrevona)

Re :

I then enabled clear cache when post is updated/published and lo and behold, it shows up.

These two settings (for update, and publish) are very useful settings.

The plugin is well supplied with help, through the “circled ‘i’ ” icons to the right of each setting. This places help very conveniently close at hand,

Suggestion 1)
This icon is not beside the “Publish” option, which it could easily be there too – or the two update/publish settings placed within a border rectangle so the user will know they are related to each other).

Suggestion 2)
The help through these icons is well presented, and is directly sourced from the author’s website. This takes a short while to download. This is not much, but it does tend to deter the user from investigating the possibilities of further optimisation, because they are less interested in what not not immediately apparent.
So to improve the speed at which the user is “lead to appreciate” the fuller functionality of the plugin, it would be handy to be able to hover over these icons, and instantaneously be shown a popup text box, that includes a (quick if possible) explanation of the respective setting, what it is good for, and what the default/initial setting was.
This might be done with a second similar icon of different colour, so the user can choose between the popup onsite text box, or the offsite page with pictorial explanations.

Some PHP module that may be useful ;

Igbinary
memcached
opcache

Hi,

Thanks for replying so soon.
This is a good sign of innovation.

A thought, in addition to above.
Is there any interest in making use of some PHP modules that can be used to speed up wordpress performance?
Noting that PHP 7 and above, use different systems to previous versions, and that they can make use of memory as cache, and have caching system that work on the server (possibly a benefit, if wordpress crashes, or hangs e.g. plugin updates in limbo).
These modules might be able to be set from within WordPress, so could be optional extras, or alternatives.

Thanks

Hi erlee,

My comments above were about the top level menu bar.
Your comments are not about that, but they are about positioning and location,
so are good to include here, because the two matters can be dealt with at the same time.

A few more ideas related to this aspect of the plugin, could make a significant improvement in its use, behaviour and appearance.

Thank you for adding a useful suggestion.

Relative simplicities – steps compared;

a) without edit
copy URL
delete hint
make new hint
paste URL
set hint
save

Note – if the user botches the copy, then some manual typing may be needed.

b) with edit
click drop down arrow icon
select from list
(just as quick as setting the “enabled” setting)

Benefits of being able to edit

faster
less complex
less chance of error
very fast to compare the relative speed of different settings for the same URL

This would make the plugin more useable, and more likely to be used by more people.

No rush though.
The plugin at least does the job.
Maybe this could hang on the ‘to do’ list for sometime later.

Thank you
and keep up the good work.

Hi mbrsolution,

Thanks for that.
I keep fairly up to date with all plugins,
so have all recent updates already.

Do you have the link for the article “Fixed a few more PHP 7.x/5.6 compatibility issues.”, as without that, I am not quite sure what you were originally referring to (and it’s still not clear whether you are referring to the “Broken Link Checker” or “PHP Compatibility Checker” plugin, or both)?

Thanks

Hi mbrsoolution,

Thanks for that.
The version that I tested, and commented on, was the latest version at the time I used it, and when I sent comments.
The tests were run, and comments sent, within a day of installing the PHP Compatibility Checker.

I have sent suggestions to the PHP Compatibility Checker plugin team.
There has been at least one update since then.

Can you supply a link to the above please?

Thank you

Re – “Category Posts in Custom Menu” Plugin

I looks like “PHP7 Compatibility” looks for code which is not compatible with the version of PHP, that compatibility is being checked for, and if it finds non version code, then will warn of incompatibility.

How ever, there are many plugins that are designed to work with a range of PHP versions. Therefore they have code for various versions.
And this will cause them to cause “PHP7 Compatibility” to make warnings.

“PHP7 Compatibility” could do with an improvement by including the ability to detect that a plugin is designed for compatibility multiple PHP versions.
It could do this by searching for code that ;
a) detects the version of PHP
and
b) makes decisions on what to do based on the PHP version detected.
These would be treated as “signatures” of a plugin that is “probably” compatible even though it contains code for other versions (though still not certain).

It might be handy to request (or make available, a means of supplying) the portions of code that do the above functions, to the “PHP7 Compatibility” plugin project, so they can work on building this additional detection capability in to “PHP7 Compatibility”.

Thank you

There is also the PHP setting for time zone.
I was going through PHP to do checks before upgrading from 5.6 to version 7.
I noticed the time zone is set to the country of the hosting provider, rather than the country of the hosted web space customer.

Suggestions
If the plugin displayed the time that it thinks is the actual time, then the user would be able to know immediately that there is a problem with clocks somewhere on their system.
The time would be displayed in dashboard/admin, but also may be optionally displayed in the front end view.
It could also display the amount of time before opening again (fancy option – but useful), or time left before closing.
The plugin could possibly be set to read the times from various systems on the server, and give the user the option to choose which one to use.
There could also be an option to check the time independently on an internet time server elsewhere.
There could be an option to adjust an offset to what ever clock system is used. Have the ability for the user can adjust the offset, so they can match up the displayed time with their actual local time.

Some of these add functionality, and some can be used to help “work around” problem situations where a diagnosis is not yet conclusive.

Thanks

Thanks for that.
I’ll let them know.

Just a thought.
Is there a way of detecting that backward compatibility is the reason why older code methods are used, such as the type of code that would be used to detect the PHP version?

If you can paste the snippet of code that you use to do that, then I will let them know that too.

If they build a search for that code sequence in to their scanner, then if that shows up in the scan, then they may report that the code appears to be maintaining backwards compatibility.

Another important snippet of code, might be the methods for the start and end of older version code, so that the scanner can use that for checking compatibility with older versions, and newer versions.

No worries, if you haven’t got the time to do that.
But anyway, thanks for the confirmation.

Thank you for confirming that.
We will keep this on board when we upgrade to PHP7.

Hi Jan Dembowski (@jdembowski),
I make a correction of an error ;

“two particular statements” should have been “three particular statements”

Thank you