As the countdown to deadline approaches single-digit numbers, I want to settle items on the homepage so I can move on to other enhancements within the site and the lessons. Here’s a list of homepage issues and how I handled them. Before and after screenshots are at the bottom of this post. Plus one very…
Tag: plug-ins
Mitigating quiz and topic progression woes
Throughout the lessons, enrolled test users have reported myriad instances of being told to “go back and complete” previous quizzes or topics when they get to a subsequent quiz or topic, even if they have indeed completed the prerequisite quiz or topic. To try to eradicate this problem with the quizzes, I changed settings in…
Fiddling with registration and log-in pages and links
It has been said that you may not find problems with your project until you try to describe or explain your project or parts thereof to somebody else. This has certainly been the case as I started to zero in on the “How to take this course” lesson, which is basically a user guide dressed…
Enhancing the contact page and form
In a previous post, I discussed the creation of contact form for the contact page. It was a basic form; when a user submitted the form, they got a completion/feedback message with an appropriate illustration. The feedback message and illustration are still on the contact page; they replace the form after the user hits the…
Adding a contact form
Since I’ll soon be asking classmates and friends and family to start testing CriticalThinkingCap.com and offering feedback, I’ve been trying to add as much intended functionality as possible. Today’s feature to add: Contact form for the “Contact us” page. I haven’t added a contact form to a website in quite some time; I was amazed…
Adding an infographic to a LearnPress materials tab
First, the infographic I had intended to create a simple progressive infographic on the building blocks of arguments for the lesson topic of the same name. Thankfully, the image I was already using as the topic’s main image could easily be edited to become each “step” of the infographic progression: The final version of the…
The hunt for elusive selectors
From this point in the project on, myriad rabbit holes will start opening up. The deepest, most dreaded of these rabbit holes will involve hunts for CSS selectors. I’ve already wasted spent a few hours on my first such hunt. Started with creating an innocent matching quiz. The user’s eyeballs, by default, would be seared…
Initial foray into GeneratePress Pro
Before I get started with mucking and futzing with settings within GeneratePress Pro (GPP) on the main site, I just wanted to see to what extent basic settings changes within GPP would affect content generated by LearnDash. For starters, here’s some LearnDash-generated content. LearnDash had already let me add my brand’s accent color (“rouge,” or…
This is when things start to get crazy
This week, a lot of tangled, twisted thoughts and considerations: Course structure revisited I had determined a course structure based on original settings I had input in my test-site version of LearnDash, that is: Lessons –> Topics –> Quizzes. (LearnDash defaults to Courses –> Lessons –> Topics –> Quizzes, but since my site is just…
LearnDash installed!
I definitely need a refresher course in LearnDash because I can barely remember the little amount I learned last September(ish). Meantime, I’ll get going little by little. First steps include changing settings as necessary. LearnDash defaults to the following structure for courses: Courses, Lessons, Topics, Quizzes. Because CriticalThinkingCap.com is just one course divided into lessons,…