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The “posts” form field is magical. Thank you so much for it.
There is one thing that I find rather confusing: the red badge displays the current amount of retrieved posts.
In my case, it is “146”. But I’ve set the “post per page” to “2”. Wouldn’t it be more user-friendly to display “2” instead of “146” since that will be the result in any case?
I understand that “post per page” refers to the post_per_page argument which refers to pagination.
But since we’re dealing with non-tech users, this will be confusing to them.
Or perhaps rename it to “Limit to X posts” ?
Thank you,
Alexandre.
The Posts field definitely is one of the more complex fields we have in the Widgets Bundle. There’s a lot of room for improvement there. I think the interface is a little confusing for some users at the moment. The interface for building the query could be a lot better.
I’m not sure which direction we should go in for that red badge. For me, displaying the total number of posts that match the query makes sense. If someone has a posts_per_page set to 2, and this count always displays 2, it’s kind of redundant information. Displaying the total posts count is extra information that the user might not know.
Allow me to respectfully disagree. It seems to me that the visual language of the red badge gives it a lot of affordance, it is like saying: this is the most useful of the two pieces of information. From the user’s perspective, the actual number of posts that will be displayed is the most useful piece of information.
Hoping that this is useful. Thanks!