[theme-reviewers] Is a page builder plugin territory?

[Chip Bennett]

I would love to see this as a Plugin, to be useful to other Themes. That
said: if you're basically using it to allow the user to customize the page
layout, and to add widgetized areas to a page, then I would consider that
to be very much Theme territory. I see it as no different from a Theme
offering pre-defined layout options, and pre-defined dynamic sidebars -
those also disappear when the Theme is switched, with no loss of
user-generated content.


On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com> wrote:

> Over the past few months I've built a page builder for my free themes.
> It lets you create page layouts using resizable columns and widgets.
>
> Here's a short video I created describing the builder.
>
> https://vimeo.com/user3187291/review/59561067/35cb26b775
>
> Based on a thread from yesterday, I have the feeling this might be
> plugin territory. Would I need to pull this functionality out of my
> themes and into a plugin?
>
> With the way I've built the plugin it's fairly generic, so could work
> with just about any theme. I'd be happy to put in the time to break it
> off into its own plugin. Just though I'd get the official word first
> because it will delay the release of a few of my themes.
>
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