{"id":508,"date":"2016-08-12T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nieuwsmarkt.nl\/?p=508"},"modified":"2017-10-01T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T07:09:57","slug":"the-perspective-of-the-unknown-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nieuwsmarkt.nl\/nl\/blog\/2016\/08\/12\/the-perspective-of-the-unknown-user\/","title":{"rendered":"The perspective of the unknown user"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pagebuilders brought us new creative possibilities to create pages in any way our customers would like us to do. For developers and designers pagebuilders are great tools. But what is happening to the unknown user?<\/strong><\/p>\n

WordPress seems to develop more and more into front-end directions. Many themes already have ‘customizer’ only settings possibilities, no access to the back-end required. Creating new posts or pages require knowledge on using the back-end of WordPress. If a designer\u00a0builds a ‘page-only’ website for a customer, it would be enough\u00a0to explain some of the pagebuilder fundamentals to edit the content. But creating a page requires to enter the back-end first (title and seo), before starting to edit in the front-end pagebuilder.<\/p>\n

Balance<\/h3>\n

In our experiences until now it seemed kind of difficult to balance the development of skills for the end-user in both front-end and back-end. An end-user who is 100% new to WordPress might get confused (at least in the beginning) in the totally different user interfaces of Beaver Builder in the front-end and WordPress in the back-end.<\/p>\n

Is there an easy answer?<\/h3>\n

No, there is no easy way out. Both WordPress and Beaver Builder development cycles show some asynchronous elements, which will for sure influence the way end-user will have to try to learn both the back-end and the front-end. And not only for the short term, but at least for the next two years to come.<\/p>\n

The moment in which a customer could become actively invloved in the webbuilding process might have influence on the training program you supply. If you take the customer with you in the middle of the design stage and show all steps you make, the customer gets used of at least seeing the back-end. But it is worth a question how far a customer would like to be involved in what you are doing in that process. Some will, but most ‘just wait’ until the ‘stuff’ is ready, just want to take a quick tour on how to change content and that should to the job. Not every customer wants to b a WordPress and\/or a Beaver Builder expert. Good for us \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Blocking the back-end<\/h3>\n

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There are many tools to block the back-end for most (logged-in) users. That at least prevents user to change menu’s, sidebar content, theme settings (if in back-end), user management and\u00a0more. But what about content? How to create a page or a post? Some (form) plug-ins give the possibility to create posts form the front-end, but are in some way limited in their make-up capabilities. You could\u00a0save them as a draft and let some ‘supervisor\/editor’ do the ‘test’ in the back-end. The same goes for pages, but if you want to add a page to the menu, again you have to go to the back-end.<\/p>\n

Some themes do already give some menu capabilities, like the Beaver Builder theme. Any page or link could be added to the menu for that theme, so that solves a bit.<\/p>\n

Who should do what in the near future?<\/h3>\n

We don’t know for sure how WordPress will develop its Customizer for the next years. It is an open tool for anyone involved in designing themes and they could add anything they like to the Customizer. Would it be thinkable, that the Customizer might get a front-end page- and\/or post editor? And what about creating a post or a page form the front-end?<\/p>\n

There are some nice little plugins in which you can already edit an existing page\/post in the front-end. We tested the Front-end Editor<\/a> from\u00a0Ella Iseulde Van Dorpe<\/a>. But in our tests we could edit text\u00a0in the Beaver Builder created page, but it did not update. In posts it did, with even the possibility to add images\u00a0in the post, see example below.<\/p>\n

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See ‘Saved’ and ‘Publish’ button and the bottom of the screen<\/p><\/div>\n

Conclusions<\/h3>\n

We do not know the ultimate answer. We do for now have to stick with the idea that developments are what they\u00a0are and we will have to prepair customers the best way we can in the balance between front- and back-end training.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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