Suggestions for writing flexible and usable plugin
Posted on February 5th • Under: Sidenotes
After the release of Custom Function Widgets plugin I also wrote about it in the WordPress support forum. Fellow forum contributor Otto42 (author of a very similar plugin: ExecPHP) had very interesting things to say regarding the plugin development in general. Really worth reading and discussing.
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Stephen, thank you for reminding me that — I’ll definitely add it to the planned articles list.
Regarding the browser width, could you please tell me the resolution of the monitor you are using? I have designed this layout to have the same content width both in 1024px and wider browsers (I am using 1440×900px or the wider laptop monitor).
Your thoughts and ideas on how to improve the layout would be really helpful. The more I look to this design, the more I feel confused about the elements visitors do see first and would like to see.
laptop with 1024×768 resolution, but I _rarely_ run the browser in fullscreen. I have to resize for your site, where most other sites adjust without too much problem.
My best suggestion is that you set a min-width for the content area.
Stephen, I have always avoided using min-width because of the horizontal scrollbar which in my opinion is much worse than squeezed but readable content. Maybe setting the min-width for the whole content area to a value which doesn’t make the main content column narrower than 470px is a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
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I would like to see the Widget-making tutorial you talked about doing. :)
(BTW — this site assumes a wide browser. Very cramped on smaller screen!)