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Suggestion - Perch page regions inside 'expandable sections' for a cleaner inter...
One thing my clients find a little intimidating is when they open up a page to edit and there are lots of regions for them to choose from. It makes it quite hard to find the the one they want and sometimes makes a page look far more complicated to edit than it is.
I'm wondering if a cleaner way to handle it would be to offer the ability for devs to place editable regions within 'expandable sections'. (Basically just like you have a parent page with child pages underneath) That way when you click into a page with lots of regions you might see this instead:
- Meta section (2 editable regions)
- Intro section (3 editable regions)
- Slider section (3 editable regions)
- Main content section (2 editable regions)
- Footer section (2 editable regions)
So instead of seeing 12 regions you just see 5 main sections which you can then expand. This then makes it much easier and faster for a user to narrow down what they are looking for.
Maybe it's overkill or there is already a better solution. Just thought I'd share my thoughts as it seems a long list of regions is sometimes a little intimidating for my clients.
I wonder if that would not make it slower, as you'd need to cycle through another step before you get to your region.
Yes maybe, it's a fair point. I just feel that a long list of regions look so similar which makes it quite hard to pick out the one you're looking for. You can end up scanning up and down a few times.
Maybe then they all show on the page but you can assign them to sections. A bit like you can with content templates. Headings would help make them more readable when scanning.
We don't add new arguments to
perch_content()(especially as it already has a second argument), but we'll give this some thought.That probably wasn't a great example, was just highlighting my thinking. Thanks for giving it some thought though.