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Gantry 5 Lite Page Builder Feature #1211

Open DamirPecnik opened 8 years ago

DamirPecnik commented 8 years ago

Page Builders are getting popular in WordPress themes and now they started to come in Joomla Articles, Gantry 5 already have the layout infrastructure and particle system it would be a good idea to add some Lite Page Builder for the Articles in Joomla or WordPress for Pages, Post or any other Post Type.

Maybe a setting to turn it ON in the settings or something so people can still choose. It would make creating pages a lot easier and they could do it in the article, post or page itself so no more running into the modules or widget to change something you simply open a page and BAM you change all particles on that page and that's it ....

Would really like to hear people thought on this idea ...

JoomFX commented 8 years ago

I've never used any Page Builders, like Visual Composer, JoomShaper's Page Builder, etc.

But I do like the idea, as these Page Builders are really getting popular and they've become almost like a standard. Users expect to have a Page Builder. So it might really be worth it to consider this for Gantry5.

I imagine it to offer the following:

  1. Adding a row (g-grid)
  2. Adding a block with the percentage option (g-block size-70)
  3. Adding any of the available particles

I just found this link. Have a look at it if you haven't read it already.

EDIT: Also, if such Page Builder is implemented in G5, and if it allows it, it might turn into a very popular thing and 3rd party developers might start developing addons for it, as it is happening for Visual Composer for quite some time now ;)

mahagr commented 8 years ago

I'm keeping this request, though its something I'm not going to look in near future as we still have a few base features we need to implement: layout inheritance, multi-language support, front-end editing of particles... After we have nailed those, we are already a bit closer to page building features.

landed1 commented 6 years ago

I am not sure how far this got but visual composer for wordpress feels very similar to building a page with particles, I also saw joomlart s page builder and that seems to work at a template level which is not what I need myself. I like having a template and then working the content inside. Often all you need is a quick way to build responsive structure. I am also not that happy to loose editorial control of premium content once the subscription expires which is what joomlart page builder does. I don't need all the bells and whistles but adding rows and columns would be cool.