A MUST HAVE Plugin!

  • I never write reviews or endorse plugins. But, this is the exception after 12 years developing off and on with WP. This plugin solves too big of a problem with WP not to share a perspective.

    If your a front-end developer looking for a completely “practical” integration solution for your custom templates/themes, this is a MUST HAVE!!! Especially if your looking for 100% bootstrap or RWD control.

    Ever since the Gutenberg block editor was issued in WP, integrating custom templates has become increasingly convoluted. Yes, you can plugin a classic editor switch and ignore it (for now). Yes, you can stack up Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), Content Aware Sidebars (CA), or other related solutions to force meta conditions. And yes, you can bloat the hell out of your (or your clients) site with builders like Elementor or Genisis page builders and marvel at the 10,000 additional lines of nested containers injected into your theme — as your site performance plummets and CSS inheritance issues plague your theme.

    OR… you can just USE Lazy Block and feel a sense of pride in a clean integration that does what it promises and what you need it to do!!!

    If this plugin was $500 for a developer license I’d gladly pay it for the headaches it solves. You can simply create any page-specific template file in your custom theme, and reference as little as 3 core dependencies like:

    <?php /* Template Name: Hero Template */ ?>
    <?php get_header(); ?>
    <?php the_content(); ?>
    <?php get_footer(); ?>

    You can then create a new block in Lazy Blocks (like “Hero” for example) and drop in your entire page body structure. From there, it’s as simple as going through and adding controls to map any and every section of content, CTA or image you want to manage editing control over.

    To manage versatility of sidebars, simply drop in a “inner block” in your sidebar wrapper and you can stack default — or your custom widgets (which can also be tamed in Lazy blocks) — into your markup.

    With this plugin, I was able to save 20+ hours on theme integration, remove 5 add-ons (that were trying to help maximize control of edit-ability) and improve site performance and stability!

    One other reviewer of this plugin stated, “It should be part of WP core” and he/she isn’t wrong!

    Documentation is simple and succinct. The UI is minimalist and elegant and the integration results are exactly what you hope for!!

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by agent617.
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  • Can you expand a bit more on the templating workflow you’re describing? I can’t grasp how it works, but it sounds intriguing.

    It sounds like you’re suggesting putting the entire post structure (including sidebar) in a single block. Then make that block the only content on the page.

    If that’s the case, what’s the advantage over simply coding a custom page template using ACF or a similar plugin?

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