Title: Plugin or Standalone Theme
Last modified: March 13, 2017

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# Plugin or Standalone Theme

 *  [sitewrangler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sitewrangler/)
 * (@sitewrangler)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-or-standalone-theme/)
 * The overall concept is designed by a user, which is fundamental, but the platform
   needs some work in playing well with other themes & plugins. The trend with themes,
   such as The7, is to provide a great deal of user customisation in terms of the
   appearance, and plugins such as Visual Composer, that recognise the power of 
   widgets and drag and drop, which integrate well with a variety of themes as well
   as WordPress itself.
 * Lifter LMS would be wise to adapt and adopt those user’s expectations.

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 *  [Thomas Patrick Levy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasplevy/)
 * (@thomasplevy)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-or-standalone-theme/#post-8922409)
 * [@sitewrangler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sitewrangler/),
 * I’m sorry that we don’t integrate as well with your theme as you’d like. I agree
   that we can do a much better job integrating with themes (and other plugins).
 * I’d ask that you have a bit of empathy for our position and imagine the nearly
   insurmountable mountain of themes and plugins we need to make ourselves fully
   compatible with. We try to be as neutral as possible and when we have conflicts
   we try to resolve them where possible but with many themes there’s simply nothing
   we can do from our end and, in those events (as you have seen) we need your help
   and the help of your theme or plugin developers to come around and make their
   custom functionality play nicely with our custom functionality. It’s a brutal
   world. I know it’s frustrating to our users and customers. It’s a no-win situation
   for many of us.
 * I spend a lot of time working and considering and attempting to make LifterLMS
   easier to work with and I’m sorry that it’s failing you in this instance.
 * Page builders are complicated. I spent nearly the entire day yesterday trying
   to make the ET Builder (packaged with Divi theme) work with LifterLMS courses.
   I feel like this is something we NEED to figure out (as you’ve stated) but it’s—
   very simply — extremely complicated…
 * One day I hope we’ll have this all figured out. If you *need* this functionality
   today you may be best off looking elsewhere as I can’t promise these features
   in the near future. I hope you can make due without these features as so many
   of our current users have and, as always, please let us know when you need assistance.
 * Thanks for giving us a shot and thanks for the feedback!
 * Best luck and wishes,
 *  Thread Starter [sitewrangler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sitewrangler/)
 * (@sitewrangler)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-or-standalone-theme/#post-8923036)
 * HI Thomas:
 * My apologies if my comments were upsetting. That was not my intention. As a one-
   man-band most of my working life I know that it’s impossible to please everyone
   all the time, if ever.
 * My intention was only to add my voice with regard to the direction that I hope
   LLMS will head. Everything costs time and money and we do empathise. You’ve been
   very patient with me and we, in turn, look forward to growing with you.
 * I’m often asked “How’s it going?” to which I answer, “There’s always room for
   improvement.” I’m not a coder but I do know that nothing is a SIMPLE flip of 
   a switch.
 * Here’s to developing a working relationship,
    Miguel

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