Competition from WordPress? PressWorks free live-preview environment Theme.
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I had heard about something like this from a WordPress pro I met a few weeks ago but had not found anything when I looked around.
Today I happened to come upon PressWorks while looking for something else.
Quite impressive.
It may revolutionize WordPress if you ask me and make it more like Concrete5 for ease of editing.
As it looks now it seems to do some things even better than Concrete5.
Here's a link to a video that shows some of it's capabilities.
http://wpmu.org/presswork-officially-launches-free-drag-and-drop-wo...
What do you all think of this? Is Concrete5 about to hit a brick wall of competition from this WordPress Theme?
Just curious is all. I am not connected with PressWorks nor have I even downloaded and used it yet.
Carlos
Today I happened to come upon PressWorks while looking for something else.
Quite impressive.
It may revolutionize WordPress if you ask me and make it more like Concrete5 for ease of editing.
As it looks now it seems to do some things even better than Concrete5.
Here's a link to a video that shows some of it's capabilities.
http://wpmu.org/presswork-officially-launches-free-drag-and-drop-wo...
What do you all think of this? Is Concrete5 about to hit a brick wall of competition from this WordPress Theme?
Just curious is all. I am not connected with PressWorks nor have I even downloaded and used it yet.
Carlos
Hmm...great to know 55webdesign!
I mean for a minute there I wondered if C5 had had it.
If WordPress ever becomes Concrete5ified, C5 is toast I think.
In that the bad side of WordPress (complex, interface based changes for the end user) will have mostly been taken out of the way.
Mind you I won't necessarily take your word as the final word on PressWorks but it's reassuring to know that you found the code bloated and bad. A pet peeve of mine. It must have decent code that I can work with.
C5 continues!
Carlos
I mean for a minute there I wondered if C5 had had it.
If WordPress ever becomes Concrete5ified, C5 is toast I think.
In that the bad side of WordPress (complex, interface based changes for the end user) will have mostly been taken out of the way.
Mind you I won't necessarily take your word as the final word on PressWorks but it's reassuring to know that you found the code bloated and bad. A pet peeve of mine. It must have decent code that I can work with.
C5 continues!
Carlos
Concrete5 (and every other CMS in the world) is already up against a brick wall of competition from Wordpress -- there's not really anywhere to go but up :)
In regards to the specific plugin you linked to: it is only for editing the theme layout, not for managing content. There are other plugins that do allow front-end content editing:
http://wpmu.org/8-wordpress-plugins-that-enable-posting-and-editing...
This one looks especially well-supported and slick:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/screenshots/...
That being said, there's a lot more to what makes C5 great to work with than just a front-end editing widget. The entire architecture of C5 is designed to work with different kinds of sites than wordpress is designed to work with. If you use C5 for a blog, you will realize it is much more painful than wordpress is. But if you use wordpress for a marketing site you will realize it is much more painful than c5 is.
I do think it's important for C5 to keep improving over time, though, because if you look at the newer CMS's coming out (most of which are hosted services, not installable software), they all use the same "in-context editing" style that C5 does. C5 is still way ahead of the competition in my opinion, but things like improving performance and making the editing interface even easier to use (and allowing it to work on mobile devices in some capacity) are critical to maintaining that lead in the long-term (in my opinion).
Just my 2 cents.
In regards to the specific plugin you linked to: it is only for editing the theme layout, not for managing content. There are other plugins that do allow front-end content editing:
http://wpmu.org/8-wordpress-plugins-that-enable-posting-and-editing...
This one looks especially well-supported and slick:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/screenshots/...
That being said, there's a lot more to what makes C5 great to work with than just a front-end editing widget. The entire architecture of C5 is designed to work with different kinds of sites than wordpress is designed to work with. If you use C5 for a blog, you will realize it is much more painful than wordpress is. But if you use wordpress for a marketing site you will realize it is much more painful than c5 is.
I do think it's important for C5 to keep improving over time, though, because if you look at the newer CMS's coming out (most of which are hosted services, not installable software), they all use the same "in-context editing" style that C5 does. C5 is still way ahead of the competition in my opinion, but things like improving performance and making the editing interface even easier to use (and allowing it to work on mobile devices in some capacity) are critical to maintaining that lead in the long-term (in my opinion).
Just my 2 cents.
Excellent two cents worth Jordan! Thanks!
Carlos
Carlos
Looked at it and a couple of sites built with it.
Bad, bloated code.
Does not validate as high as C5 with W3C and jigsaw CSS.
Worse for accessibility.
Even worse with page speed!
I managed to watch just over 3 minutes and came away!
C5 has nothing to worry about.
But saying all that, some people will try it!