What is Reddit's opinion of Pinegrow Web Editor?

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Not new to WordPress here, so you can still style it out using Bootstrap or Foundation with PHP inline templating, I would start by checking out the WordPress Codex first on theme standards and this handy guide https://wphierarchy.com. If you haven’t coded PHP before but want to template quickly, I would recommend checking out Pinegrow at https://pinegrow.com. I have licenses for that and other dev tools for my team, it’s a great timesaver to code something out using HTML and then work directly in PHP after theme package export. Give yourself time to learn these things, it’s a unique framework to develop for. You won’t be a pro overnight and I still learn new things every day.

Matjaz, the author of Pinegrow here.

Just wanted to clarify that Pinegrow is a general purpose HTML & CSS editor. It's in no way tied to Bootstrap, although it comes with full support for Bootstrap and Foundation. You can freely use Pinegrow with any HTML-based project and style with fully-featured CSS Visual editor (including CSS Grid).

Check out Features for details: https://pinegrow.com/#features

Speaking as a web developer: the best way to evaluate various web development tools is to just take them for a spin. Most of them have free trial versions. That's the best way to figure our what works for you best.

Webflow springs to mind as it's quite powerful and generates tidy, exportable code. I've not used it for any real projects before, but I've heard good things about it.

For Desktop/local options, you could give something like Pinegrow or BootStrap Studio a try.

They should all feature code export or easy linking of custom domains...

Should've also included the link for these two in the previous comment...

https://pinegrow.com/

https://bootstrapstudio.io/

Hope that helps 👍🏻

I am surprised that no one cited Pinegrow. https://pinegrow.com

It’s a really beat editor for html/css/js. After making a static site you can even convert it in a custom WP theme. It’s way less bloated then any builder.

The UI/UX seems inspired by Webflow but without any lock-in.

I really like it, have a look

I agree with a lot of what folks are saying about Oxygen. I gave it a try as well and I did not like the fact that it disables theming all together -- this is removing one of the core features of Wordpress.

As for the learning, it is a learning curve to then understand their ecosystem. I personally found it "clunky" and non-intuitive, but that is just me.

From a stand point for new to experienced developers it is not good for new dev's. The reason for this is, as I noted above, it removes the theming functionality. How are you suppose to learn anything about the Wordpress ecosystem when a major part of it is removed?

If a new dev wants to learn the Wordpress way I found Pinegrow to be a good choice. It allows you to build your own site; it allows you to use a CSS framework like Bootstrap, Tailwinds, or vanilla CSS; it also has a Wordpress component that injects the code that you need. This way you can see the code that is being used and then understand why it is being used.

For someone new this can be a great option. It is like watching someone code, but adds the option to work the project on your own.

Here is some info on it: https://pinegrow.com/#features-wp as well some Youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei4e0geipJI&list=PLNHKFtMjaNvHUyWw1HgRCQXar6aecp9pv

They're all using Bootstrap, so they're probably made by writing the code by hand using the same theme, but they could also have used some kind of WYSIWYG editor that supports Bootstrap, like Pinegrow or Pingendo

Possible. Just not even close to being worth the trouble. If you need a visual builder, check out Pinegrow Web Editor | Website Builder for Professionals or Anima | Design to code.

If you simply want your clients to be able to edit text within existing layouts, you could always write your own simple CMS functionality and add it to the existing site. Although unless the content is stored away from the layout (and preferably in a proper database), it'll be a little more tricky to implement.

Otherwise, see if anyone's made something that converts Bootstrap Studio html/css files into a theme for a CMS. A 20 second google search shows me https://pinegrow.com/theme-converter-for-wordpress so I suspect there are others too.

As someone who has a degree in gis, and a hobby creating static websites ( HTML+CSS+JS). wholesomely recommend starting from scratch, and or use a static premade template with all the dependencies.

You are able to showcase your projects, experience, etc the way you want without limitations of web builders. Furthermore, in the circumstance you want to do more with the website. Building a webpage locally removes the middle-man web builders. The benefit of that being you own your work. If for whatever reason the web builder stops receiving support, or is shutdown. You could end up losing all the time spent.

There are countless visual website programs (CoffeeCup RSD,Pinegrow,Dreamweaver)that generate the code when you tell it to. These are great for people who like to view the results simultaneously while creating the code. Unfortunately they are not free, but definitely a good starting point if that's something you're interested in.

Good luck

Checkout Pinegrow, seems similar to NicePage but from what I recall the last time I used it, it didn't generate crazy CSS files and was more or less HTML/ CSS coding with a GUI. Good luck!

https://pinegrow.com/

You could look into https://pinegrow.com/ and see if that works for you. It's not drag and drop but it does make CSS edits more visual. I think there is a free demo so you could test it out try. It's pretty inexpensive as well.