Need an easy way to update your website? Most people do! The back-end of a website is an intimidating place. Even if you think know what you’re doing, there’s always some hesitation that what you’re doing might “break” the site. If something doesn’t look right after you’ve changed it, will you know how to change it back?
Of course, the website development agency that you hire should take proactive measures and train you on how to do basic things on the site. We do!
But we also make it easy to manage your website yourself, without having to pay a developer to do basic things like update text or add or remove images.
Limelight Department developed a plugin for WordPress sites called the Content Blocks plugin. The plugin utilizes templates that create features that can be added anywhere on your website. These features could be flip cards, video backgrounds, image sliders, or text. If you add a text block that over times becomes irrelevant–for a holiday sale, for instance–you can remove or update that through an easy interface. Check out the website for Wellsource for an example of the cool flip cards feature.
Visual Composer is a popular WordPress plugin that has similar capabilities, however, by design, Content Blocks is different. Visual Composer is a drag-and-drop interface that is easy to use–it’s also easy to “break” something on your site. It’s more free-form in the sense that the user can control many different things, but that means that there are many more opportunities to inadvertently change something or change something in a way that you don’t like and then not be able to figure out how to change it back.
The Content Blocks plugin comes with 12 different interfaces. That gives the client plenty of room for customization and content creation. Content Blocks enriches the WordPress environment but the user can’t “break” the design or the layout of their site by putting things in the wrong place.
The plugin is customized so that the output (what site visitors see on your site) matches your site’s color scheme and style. You, the site owner, need to just fill out a form that supplies the plugin with some information to tell it what to do, and that’s it. Check out these two Limelight Department client sites that are using the plugin, and see if you can tell where the plugin is working.
Bowtech Archery
Diamond Archery
You can’t! That’s how well it works. It’s also a great demonstration of why working with a developer who knows how to do custom installations is so important. Your site can, and should, be seamless from “head to toe,” so to speak.
The Content Blocks plugin gives you the ability to update your website info in the form of images, text or video without having to pay extra development fees. Want to see how it might work for your WordPress site? Give us a call!
