I got my first user feedback on the wordpress plugin from my friend Daniel Miller.  In the interests of documenting feedback here is Daniel’s feedback:

Feature: Add neotext to the Preview/Publish system so that the user doesn’t have to visit api.CiteIt.net and submit a new url.  I think this is possible, I just have to research the WordPress API.  One optimization I’d also like to do is detect whether a “cite” attribute has been used so the webservice doesn’t run unnecessarily.

Bug: Fix the extra non html code that gets included in the text:

The expandable before-context of the quotation I pulled from neotext.net  starts with “.. /analytics.js’,’ga’); ga(‘create’, ‘UA-65403609-1’, ‘auto’); ga(‘send’, ‘pageview’);

Feature: enable the editing (and possible formatting) of the quote

Question: Say I neotextify a page and then later I decide I don’t want the expanding quote contexts in that article. Is there an easy non-technical way I can turn off the neotext plugin for just one page in WordPress?

Answer: You can remove the neotext by removing the “cite” attribute from the html.  Perhaps there could be a way to do this with the GUI.

Bug: The headings in the context for my quote are run together with no space between the surrounding text and the heading.

Possible solution: This appears to be the result of line wraps that don’t contain a space at the end of them.  This will require a different way of generating the text-version of the html

Feature: Is there supposed to be a link to the original document in the top expandable section? Or maybe at the bottom of the bottom expandable section? Seems like that might be a nice feature, although maybe some people wouldn’t want that, so maybe simpler is better? (thinking out loud here)

Feature: Some of the javascript files included by the plugin are not minified. Would be nice if they were.

More Feedback:

If you have further suggestions send them my way.  My gmail account is timlangeman.  If I like them, I’ll have you add them to the Github issues pages.