Hi there,
The idea of Flickify (turn an article into a video automatically) is great. But, there are many bugs that make my videos strange. So, I have to do a lot of manual work to fix it.
Issues
1- My listicle articles have this format:
- Intro
- item1 heading
- item1 image
- item1 details
- item1 download/website link
- item2 heading
- item2 image
- item2 details
- item2 download/website link
.
.
.
- Conclusion
But, when I use Flickify, many images are missing in the video and also the order of images is very strange. "Item1 image" usually doesn't show next to the "Item1 heading" slide.
I usually get slides like "Item1 heading" and then "Item4 image" etc.
2- The sentences automatically break after the "." dot symbol. It creates undesired results.
For example, If I want to mention a file name in a sentence like "Run program.exe file" then "Run program." and "exe" will display on different slides.
My recommendation to fix this issue: In your code, check whether there is any trailing space after the "." dot symbol. If yes, then break the sentence otherwise don't break (display it as it is).
3- Sometimes I get errors when my slide content is short. I have to manually add seconds to fix it. It's better if you can make the minimum character limit in a slide to 1 character.
For example, there is a programming language called "GO". If I want to create a slide displaying only "GO" as the heading then Flickify will show the "slide content is short" error.
4- A dot is added automatically at the end of the sentence if there is no dot. Please don't do that because we usually don't want to display a dot at the end of a heading.
Improvements Requested
1- My articles usually contain programming code snippets. When I convert this type of article using Flickify then it automatically removes some code. Also, the remaining code is displayed in a single sentence instead of multiple lines.
At the moment, I'm using these 2 plugins to add code snippets to my articles.
link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-codemirror-block/
link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/enlighter/
My recommendation to fix this issue: I think you can use something like these libraries to add support for code-snippet syntax highlighting in Flickify videos.
link: https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js
link: https://github.com/EnlighterJS/EnlighterJS
link: https://codemirror.net/
2- Add the ability to display Ordered List / Unordered List
3- As I mentioned above, each item in my listicle article usually has a download/website link. Please add functionality that allows us to easily remove those links/buttons from slides. Right now, a separate slide is created for each link/button.