Moving To WordPress Frontend Editor from Backend

If you are involved in WordPress web development, or content management, then you probably have noticed more folks talking about about taking web content management and page building to the front end.

Such an approach seems to be quite logical, especially if we are talking about lowering the barrier for people without deep IT and WordPress knowledge to work with web content.

It’s Not Just About Development, But Educating Non-Technical Users

Almost every developer has experienced the problems of explaining the content management process on WordPress back end to their customers. Even more important – front end editor offers amazing capability to track changes on the go without switching different modes and layouts.

Taking this into consideration it seems to be obvious that we should move away from the back end and perform all necessary tasks via WordPress front end editor. But is it really so, or maybe front-end content management is just an additional approach whose main purpose is to enhance processes and improve usability?

It’s What Users Want! A Great WordPress Front End Editor

Let’s face the simple fact that most site owners and copywriters demand front end editor as it is easy to understand and you do not require deep knowledge of WordPress back-end management to perform simple tasks. This leads to a logical conclusion that simplicity is the main force that moves the development of front end editors.

Such an approach states that we must not overload front end editor with all possible back end settings and configuration in order to keep our solution simple.

Having this in mind, I think we can agree that looking from the perspective of the whole web lifecycle WordPress front end editor looks like a must-have middleware between back end and the public part. While the back end is a common set of tools and functions for in-depth development and WordPress configuration and the pubic part is intended for end users, our front end ‘middleware’ is a great tool for copywriters and site owners who seek to perform simple tasks or such tasks which require immediate review of results.

WPBakery Offers Both Back And Front End Editing

Taking this into consideration we have managed to create a ‘merge’ of these two editing options – read more about then here, or try them out in our demo.

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