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What do you want to see in Zentools2 - A roadmap of sorts

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Hi Anthony
Thank you for your attention regarding the K2 tags as a content source.

I have on my site a landing page with offer for decorative memorial glass boards (www.witraze.info/1164-tablice-ze-szkla-artystycznego).
The page is bulit as a K2 item with Zentools module displaying other K2 items (items with examples of glass boards).
To populate the module I have to add each K2 item to the module manually what is very slow as I have to search among hundreds of items. But it could and should be much easier as these articles are tagged with the word "board".
These items can be displayed very easy with the use of K2 tag page (www.witraze.info/tag/tablica) but not so easy with the use of Zen Tools module. If I could have Zentools module with the option of selecting the content silmilary to K2 page it would be great.
As I have many items tagged withe the same tag the pagination would be nice to make the page more friendly (I'd like to display content in the simlar way like K2 category view here www.witraze.info/galeria/szklo-dekoracyjne/we-wnetrzach-mieszkalnych).

hope this held
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Ah ok yes that makes sense. So rather than displaying the tags themselves you want to group the items based on their tags. We can certainly add that :)
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Yes - grouping the items based on their tags! Thank you Anthony indeed! And what about pagination? For this type of work (grouping the items) would be very useful.

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Apologies, just noticed this reply. I was referring to any of the intro articles shown on the guardian news site. (same behaviour appears on those with or without photo caption in that they have a grey overlay over the article). I feel this is visually helpful for the viewer, when browsing the selections they wish to click through to.

I would also be very interested in any developments you are making regarding wordpress themes. I feel your strong focus on typography and content-driven templates would make you a good fit. regards
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Ah ok sorry yes - so some sort of hover behaviour. We can certainly add that.
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Hi
I have just discovered that Zentools2 is missing something basic from Zentools1.
There is no ability to sort articles by "Hits" view counts, in the Content tab.
Surely this must be an oversight?

I use this in Zentools1 to show a list of the most popular articles.

Can you please add this feature back into the extension, otherwise I will have to maintain both V1 and V2 at the same time.

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Thanks Derek - yes definitely an oversight. Will add back in the next release., Thanks
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Thank you :)
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We will keep you posted update wise

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Anthony - I'd like to suggest for flexible options in the layout of the lightbox popup. It would be great to have more control over what appears in the popup. For example, I was trying to set up a module that shows the intro text, then would show fulll text in lightbox, and that doesn't seem possible. Also can't seem to show the video in lightbox only like in Zentools1.

Ultimately, a layout tool like for the module, but for the lightbox (select the element, columns, etc) would be fantastic, not sure how reasonable that is.
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Yes I totally agree. I wanted to add a layout tool for the lightbox as well but ran out of time. Perhaps in a future version.

Ill add more options like video etc in v1.1 which I hope to release next week or the week after.
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Derek Moran wrote:
Hi
I have just discovered that Zentools2 is missing something basic from Zentools1.
There is no ability to sort articles by "Hits" view counts, in the Content tab.
Surely this must be an oversight?

Hi Anthony
I have just installed Zentool2 v1.06
Sorting by View Count is still not in Zentools2.
Can you please add this back in for the next build update.

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Derek.
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Hi Derek,


I'll check with Anthony this evening / tomorrow morning when he is online regarding this

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Hi Derek,

We will be including this in an update this week

sorry for the delay on this

Thanks
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Thanks Paul :)
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I'll keep you posted

Cheers
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Hi Derek,

Can you try updating to the latest version - we just released an update

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I would love to see Instagram as a content source for adding images to a gallery.
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Hi there, Have added that to the list as well. Will see if it's possible to do that.
Thanks!
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Hi Paul & Anthony

ZenTools2 is now working beautifully.
Sort by View Count/Hits works well.

Thank you for your excellent service.

Derek :)
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