client to be able to update the text/images

  • Resolved portia79

    (@portia79)


    5 years ago

    Hi,

    I’m developing a simple website with wordpress. A client would like to be able to update the text/photos after the launch.

    Some of the pages are simple (a few blocks of text/pictures), which the client can easily do via Gutenberg. Some of them, however are more complicated in terms of design and the split into columns/modules/areas of a page has to be done via a template (and html/css) so it’s not just one block of text.

    I’m considering what the best option is. In my previous project I used ACF but don’t want to pay for another licence.

    I know I can customise the customiser but it’d be lots of lines/entries forms.

    Another options I thought would be to create a custom post type (eg. Components) and refer to particular Components ID in the template code. The client would just update particular Component posts via the dashboard, eg.

    Component ID 01: Commitment Statement
    Component ID 02: Our Vision
    Component ID 03: Our Mission

    etc.
    What would your recommend?

    While I understand that Gutenberg has been enabling lots of features, I fear the client might struggle with formatting the gutenberg blocks if they were to change/replace image/text. So in terms of layout/formatting, I’d like to do as much as possible from the template side.

    What do you think?

    • This topic was modified 5 years ago by portia79.
    • This topic was modified 5 years ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic
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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Are you sure the free ACF plugin would not meet your needs this time? It’s a pretty reliable way to gather client provided data without them messing up formatting in the process. And you already know how to use it.

    You could manage which posts they can edit by assigning to them a role that does not have edit_others_posts capability and ensuring they are not the author of any posts they must not be able to edit.

    There are several roles and capabilities plugins you can use to create an appropriate role for your client.

    Thread Starter portia79

    (@portia79)

    Thanks. I guess I’ll use ACF. Yeah, it does do what I’m after. Perhaps at some point a similarly flexible tool will be included with wordpress.

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