Does a Shopify Style Template & Section Editor Exist For WP?

  • Hey Everyone!

    When building a page in Shopify, you drag & drop prebuilt “sections” (a grid, carousel, testimonials, text with image, etc.) and each section has different settings. Typically they’re things like a title, sub-title, text, image, etc. It’s basically something in-between a sync’d and not sync’d pattern.

    I’m curious if there is something similar in WP? My ultimate goal is when updating the theme on my site, I’d like to update my “testimonial” styling/layout in the section source which would then propagate to every instance of “testimonials”. This is different then sync’d patterns since the settings will still persist on the instance level of “testimonials”. This way, the layout/styling is consistent but each instance is still unique.

    New to WP, come from a decade of Shopify, been searching for hours and can’t find what I’m looking for, hoping a human can help.

    Thanks!

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Yes, WordPress’s block editor operates similar to that: https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/wordpress-block-editor/

    And many eCommerce plugins utilize it too, like WooCommerce: https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-blocks/

    Thread Starter pauldphoenix

    (@pauldphoenix)

    @macmanx , thank you for your time and response, greatly appreciated.

    Apologies for my obtuseness, I’ve read through the block editor and it appears to me that a block is an all or nothing deal.

    Either they’re synced and therefore changing one changes the other. Or, they’re detached and you’re essentially copying/pasting from a single master template.

    I’m hoping for something in the middle. Where say, you can change the title and text, but you can’t add or move anything.

    Thanks again,

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Blocks overall maintain their default formatting, so in the sense of WooCommerce products for example, you’d only have to worry about the title, description, price, and optional (but highly recommended) image, while everything would be laid out as before.

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