Best way to achieve a "Content Builder"?

[rbaby]

It happens so often where my clients makes a page layout and it just doesn't look good. It would be great if there was a way that I can utilize UDT and he can click a button--fill out the fields that were defined in the UDT and it will insert it as a whole block he can't mess up.

One of the reasons I started finally looking at WordPress is because of all the content builder plugins that they seem to have available where they can just add rows, columns and shortcodes/widgets to each content area and I wouldn't have to go in and clean it up.

I'd love to support CMSMS to get there--is there a module now that can do it? Has anyone figured out how to have fluid page layouts that can be editor-controlled without me having to predefine every single possible content block variation?

[Rolf]

Template Inheritance does the trick https://www.cmscanbesimple.org/blog/the ... gn-manager

[rbaby]

Template Inheritance does the trick https://www.cmscanbesimple.org/blog/the ... gn-manager

Thanks Rolf, I've tried this approach and usually use it but again, you're basically limited still to that column structure and row structure to what you've already predefined. There's no "repeater" option to continually add rows and content blocks on the page which would be great.

If I could define 1-4 column blocks and have a button in the page edit page that says "add new row" and specify how many content column blocks it adds...that could help. Is there a way to do that with calguy's modules?

[paulbaker]

There's no "repeater" option to continually add rows and content blocks on the page which would be great.

Have you come across LISE? ListIt.
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/LISE
A great way of displaying lists of anything. Developer controls the layout, editor just adds text content and maybe images. No formatting for him to mess up. I use LISE in a lot of sites.