Too many Blocks on a single page to admin...

By ZambalaRed on 18 Sep 2016 at 21:57 UTC

Hello,

Is there any way to manage this?!

I have too many blocks on a single page to admin - the browser is freezing and jumping badly whenever I need to save or re-order blocks, the number is growing - almost daily, but several new blocks per week - and any block might be the last one I can manage there....

What to do?

Any way to divide them per groups on several pages or similar?

Or Database adding only?

Comments

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VM commented 19 September 2016 at 01:06

o_O - I have to admit: my immediate reaction is that if you are adding 3 blocks a week, there must be a better way to do whatever it is you are doing with so many blocks.

There are many books, each

ZambalaRed commented 19 September 2016 at 07:45

There are many books, each book is receiving an individual Menu through a block; so - sometimes 4, sometimes 20 pages - are geting an individual block; 100 books = 100 blocks; and growing;

yea, each section / book of the site can get individual set of blocks; I have also some ideas about Screen-size-depending different sets of blocks; views blocks;

and so the list goes on...

it's not a wordpress with 3 blocks for all site and that's it;

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VM commented 19 September 2016 at 17:43

Seems me book.module should have been avoided and a custom content type utilized. the blocks could have been accomplished with the views module and using relationships and contextual filers, only a single block would have been needed?

If you intend to continue down this path you will need to write a module that splits the blocks ui.

Book module core is widely

ZambalaRed commented 20 September 2016 at 00:20

Book module core is widely used; but Book Modules original menus were striped and replaced with individual hand-prepared menus; aka jumpboxes and double - triple combo selects - on most cases;

The goal is not "somehow" get

ZambalaRed commented 20 September 2016 at 13:39

The goal is not "somehow" get along with fewer blocks - but the goal is to do the best possible way - for users and for design; it's a huge website and my life's work.

Other than that - may be I could live with fewer blocks, with smaller website, or without a website at all after all?! Right?!