stephaNNb saidHello.
I got some question why you planned to developed the layouts manager and content types for this?
We got visual composer .
I`m thinking that people don’t need this feature at all, it’s a little wired for them.
Waiting to hear what you planned for it or what is the main benefits for it.
Thank you.
And great job .
A content builder like Visual Composer and our Layout Manager serve very different functions. The features of Visual Composer are only relevant to a single page/post and cannot effect anything outside that scope. Layouts created with the Layout Manager are capable of applying large scale changes, site wide, from a centralized location. The layouts are essentially a replacement for WordPress template pages. Instead of creating a custom template PHP file to achieve a page with a right and left sidebar, now you just open the Layout Manager and create this in the admin and apply it where you need.
Another example of how it could be applied, if you had a site that was broken into sections, for example a news site with 5 main areas and each area had a unique color, header graphic and footer, the Layout Manager would let you make those design applications directly from the admin. You could assign the custom colors, design elements, headers and footers to each of the 5 sections and all of the pages, posts and other content in those areas would adopt the look automatically. If you ever needed to change something about one of those areas, you simple edit that one layout and the change is applied universally to every place on the site using that layout. That’s not possible with a content builder where you instead go running around your site making updates to every page.
Another thing you can do with the layout manager is create areas to be populated with widgets, or pages or static blocks or any other custom post type. While it’s possible to use a content builder for similar functionality, it leaves you with a problem for updates. If you ever want to modify the structure of pages created with a content builder you have to edit every page but the layout manager is centralized. It also gives you control over assigning custom headers and footers, this just isn’t possible from a content builder at all.
I hope that helps!