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    • 13 Sep 2015 at 19:18 #2003
      jaylopez
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      There are two things I’m trying to change:

      1. Change the layout to the look of a regular blog: just have a big content area with a small sidebar on either side.
      When I try this it displays bot columns at equal length.

      2. I’m having problems with the limited ways the header image and site title can be displayed. I tried to edit the header template file but just changing some of the attributes like height etc., breaks the themes easily.

      3. I’m curious as if most of the functionality of the plugins and template can be maintained using a drag and drop page builder like Site Origin’s free PageBuilder or alternatively using another theme.

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    • 27 Sep 2015 at 19:36 #2013
      Avatar photoDavid Butt
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      We’ve been testing stuff around the Govintranet theme.

      As part of this, we’ve got a test network (multi-site) installation set up so that some of the plugins are installed universally (obviously the theme, the HT plugins and other essential plugins like ACF) but some other plugins are installed by the administrators of sub-sites ad hoc. We’ve bought a developer copy of Beaverbuilder (https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com/) and put in on for people to be able to install onto individual sub-sites to give them a front-end editor.

      We’ve been playing with it for a couple of weeks and, so far, it seems to work OK. We’ve installed it on several sub-sites and, using the default page template, it allows you to use a whole range of front-end editing stuff to snazz up pages. But this is a qualified endorsement – we’re not using it in anger yet. But we hope it will meet the needs of a few of our publishing users who feel that they want much more flexibility with presentation. Personally, I think keeping it simple looks better but…the end users always know best. And we’re also fretting a bit about the future of this approach. It might work today but we can’t predict what may happen with upgrades and so on. Beaverbuilder does seem to give you a reasonable exit plan so that the ‘enhancements’ are turned into (sort of) HTML if you switch Beaverbuilder off after you’ve used it on pages.

      As an aside, we have the same concerns about our (separate) Windows/LDAP installation (not networked/multi-site) which works like a dream. This one lets you use the same credentials as your AD credentials to access a site, with most users having contribute access but a few being elevated (after initial login) to edit or administer the site. Oh, we’re not going to use BBPress – before you ask.

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