Q: WARNING: GetBeamer home page says NO CODING REQUIRED (quote) "Beamer is easy to install and requires no coding knowledge.
Just plug in Beamer script and go. Great for all product managers, designers & marketing managers."
However, once inside ""Follow these steps to embed Beamer on your website. You might need some help from your developer." You will. The embed code is NOT preset up to a default. You need to know how to edit the element id (whatever that is) for Wordpress. Which I don't. So I either hire a developer or I get a refund. Which should path should I go down? (remember, Beamer said no coding knowledge required). PS the only documentation is Developer Docs but remember "no coding required" lol. I'm not interested in the plugin, I just need to know what to put in the ELEMENT ID. I have a feeling it's stupidly obvious to a coder.
This product is excellent for developers. For the rest of us, not so much and will probably cost you development money in the short term. Refund or wait for proper user (not dev) documentation in plain English (not tech language)? Anyone got a video or blog post walkthrough. I just need to get the basics in and then I'll play...
ab48d532ba8c47f6a3c576fa0805fa20Even I had the same issue and got pissed off.
But I had a chat in their website where they have guided me how to make it work.
Step 1: Install a plugin named "headers and footers"
Step 2: Open the plugin and add the embed code of the beamer in footer section.
and then save it.
Step 3: refresh the website page and you should be able to see the changes.
For any other changes to be made,you can contact support or directly ping them in chat in their website and I am sure they will help you out.
58c6e2b1b870461da6e494a3cf6c4ed9Hi Laurel,
Sorry about the confusion. Totally understand your frustration if setup wasn't as easy as expected.
We are constantly working to make installation as easy as possible. We just finished a WordPress plugin which will be available soon and will make installation even more seamless.
It is not necessary to put in any element ID for Beamer to work on your site. If you don’t add any element ID by default Beamer will show a notification icon in the bottom-right corner of your page (preview in your account in Settings > Appearance). If you want to have a custom menu item for your users to open Beamer you need to add that to your website, assign the menu item an ID to identify it and then send that ID to Beamer's script. If using Wordpress ID will be assigned automatically.
But remember that is optional - you are free to not put any element ID and Beamer will automatically add a nice looking icon for you.
We are going to clarify this in our Docs page and add some videos to make it clearer for non-developers to follow.
Appreciate your feedback and thanks for helping us continue to improve.
Let us know how else we can help.
Cheers,
Spencer
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Beamer is no coding required - it works out of the box; unless you want to tweak it (i.e. have the notification appear on a menu instead of the default icon in the bottom left it adds).
Beamer can't tell you what ID to put there because that's going to be different for every single person. However, if you want to add the little notification bubble to a WordPress menu item using an ID you can do the following:
1) Create a custom link in your WP menu (under Appearance > Menus >Custom Links) using # as the URL; save. You can edit the menu item URL after to delete the # if you want.
2) Once the menu item is created you can either...
A) Hover over the little arrow toggle beside the menu item, in the bottom left of your browser it should show you a URL with the ID (i.e. mysite.com/nav-menus.php?edit-menu-item=1000). That number is the ID you need.
B) Go to the front-end of your site, right-click the link to inspect. Copy the link ID (i.e. menu-item-1000)
3) When you add your Beamer snippet to your site edit the following line in the snippet to include your menu ID (it's the first line of the code):
selector : "element-id", //REPLACE: Your element ID to position the alert.
Will look like this (menu-item- is the default prefix for WP menu ID's):
selector : "menu-item-1000", //REPLACE: Your element ID to position the alert