Category: Miscellaneous
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Star Rating Update
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A couple of weeks ago I shared a post showing the early stages of our star rating & filter implementation. This is a follow up post, showing the current and final implementation – at least for the upcoming picu Pro release. I think we made some great improvements: Stars can also be changed in the…
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WP.org Guideline Violation 😱
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Not an email you want to get on a Saturday: Turns out, when we refactored our settings, we changed the “Show picu love” setting to “on” by default. The WordPress.org guidelines however state, that “Plugins may not embed external links or credits on the public site without explicitly asking the user’s permission“. Fortunately – thanks…
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Star Rating and Filtering
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Until now filtering images in a collection was only possible between “selected” or “unselected”. I wanted to make this more flexible and landed on star rating/filtering. Star ratings are pretty common and universally understood, although the usual use case is rating products or movies. Still, the concept remains the same: More stars mean “better”. Also,…
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Close a Collection From the Approval Email
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With picu 2.3.0 and picu Pro 1.4.0 collections do no longer close automatically. Before collections would close once the last client approved their selection. With the introduction of client (self) registration, this no longer made sense. We still wanted to make it easy for the photographer to close the collection once everyone is done. So…
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Exclude Custom Post Type From Yoast
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picu collections are never meant to be public, that is why we remove them from XML sitemaps, have robots meta directives set to noindex, etc.. (Short excursion: For various reasons we cannot set our collection post type to ‘public’ => false, because they are public, as in they need to be displayed in the front…
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Individual Image Comments Now Have a Date
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With picu Pro you can add markers and comments to individual images. We now also display the date, of when the comment was made. This is what it looks like in the frontend: Backend: This is only the very first step to enable a more interactive workflow. The goal is to allow a back and…
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Selection Goal Alert
With picu Pro you can set a selection goal, so either the exact, minimum, maximum or inside a specific range of the number of images your clients need to select. Until now, the goal was communicated in the email or the info panel, but there was no clear indication during the selection process. Only when…
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picu E-commerce – Phase 1
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About a month ago, we announced that we will be working on adding e-commerce functionalities to picu in some form or another, and created a quick survey to learn more about how our customers would actually want to use this in the real world. We got a lot of answers and some really great ideas…
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Improving “+ Add Client”
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I worked on improving a particular function on the collection edit screen: Adding a client to an open collection. This is what the previous modal looked like: This is the new version: I updated this dialog with the following features: I also made the checkbox somewhat dynamic, by only allowing it to be checked, if…
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E-Commerce Survey
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Yesterday we sent out a newsletter asking for feedback from our users about e-commerce integration into picu. Selling images directly through picu, as part of the proofing workflow, has been one of the most requested features and we feel like it is finally time to get to work on it. But we want to make…
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Email required setting update
We had another discussion about the email required setting, see my last update about this issue. We decided to simply describe what the setting does – as it should be. But we opted to also include a help link to our docs page, where we provide more information about the whole registration process. I think…
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Email required or optional?
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With our last release we added a registration form, so that clients could identify themselves before making a selection. This enables the photographer to share the same link with multiple clients – or even allow the client to share the link with colleagues, etc. We also added a setting whether entering an email address was…
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Goals for our new website
As requested by Florian, let’s also share some of the progress we’re making on the marketing & design side of things, first and foremost towards our new website. The original site was launched 8+ years ago and only got some minor changes since, so by the end of last year I decided it’s time to…
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How picu settings work
I was asked by Marc about how our settings work. Well, his original question was if we use React, but since we don’t and since I have this new blog here, I thought I just might try to give a very basic overview of how we implemented it. Maybe this is helpful to someone. We…
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Shimmer effect
Not sure this will stay in, but I think this is a fun little effect, which adds a tiny eye-catcher to the Pro icon: It has more pause in between the effect in the actual implementation, than the gif above. Created entirely with CSS: