PageBuilder as Content Editor

The YOOtheme page builder is a helpful tool to create whole pages but it has a couple of downsides.
  • If you use the page builder to edit a content item when it is displayed it takes over the display of the whole page.
  • If you show this content item in a blog or multi-item view - the teaser field is a non-structured dump of the HTML and images of the carefully constructed content item
  • An alternative to showing this poorly constructed teaser is to write a custom 'excerpt' field
This is not ideal - you may want to edit an article using the power of the page builder but for it to continue to behave like a normal article.
This plugin allows you to do this

Page Builder Content is Full Page

A nicely edited article takes over the whole page - ignoring single article templates you may have created.

Poor Rendering in Blog View

If you display the content or teaser in a blog view you get a almost random output of HTML and images that ignores the structure you created in your page builder edited article.

Excerpt is Available

You can create an 'excerpt' custom field and use this instead of the teaser.
This is, in essence, plain text or basic HTML. Not always ideal.

Choose Where Sections Appear

With this plugin you can mark your sections in the page builder as visible in the article view, blog view or both.

WARNING

When editing the article withe page builder you will see the normal page builder - full screen view.

You MUST remember to close the pagebuilder/YOOtheme customizer if you want to view the impace of your changes on another tab.  If you don't do this you will continue to see the original behaviour of the pagebuilder.  This is because of the way that YOOtheme uses cookies to keep track of an active builder/customizer session.

Custom Article View

If you have marked ANY sections as blog or article view only the article is rendered as an article and not a page.
Only showing the sections marked do display in article view or both views.

Custom Blog View

The blog view now picks up your structured contly but only the sections marked do display in blog view or both views.
the page builder can now be used as a content blogk editor at last!

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