Title: Tremendous Time Saving Framework
Last modified: October 1, 2017

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# Tremendous Time Saving Framework

 *  [dsem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsem/)
 * (@dsem)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tremendous-time-saving-framework/)
 * This plugin is really the gateway to a broader framework you can use with the
   Pagelines themes and extensions in order to develop a WordPress site really fast.
 * It won’t design the site for you like some fixed theme templates, so you still
   have to be creative. But it gives you a blank slate that you can very quickly
   fill with header/footer and body content. This also isn’t a WYSIWYG visual editor
   like Wix (if you’re on WordPress you should abhor Wix anyway!) or even quite 
   like the WP visual editor, but better in my opinion.
 * The two best things about it, and why we frequently come back to using it for
   WordPress builds, is that everything we add on the front end previews and saves
   via AJAX (i.e. you don’t have to hard refresh it to see your changes live, like
   a lot of visual editors out there) which is very useful in low bandwidth international/
   traveling scenarios (still a lot of digital nomads on WordPress these days I 
   hope?) and the fact that the CSS/LESS editor is live preview as you enter the
   CSS into it. We’ve had new staff come into our agency who worked in web design
   for years and somehow never knew how much help a live CSS previewer on WordPress
   could be. If you know some basic CSS this feature can help you do almost anything
   your design needs on the WordPress theme you are building off of Pagelines. The
   page template feature is very handy too, once you make a good page design in 
   one spot, you can save all the elements to quickly load in another similar page,
   then just swap out graphic elements/text as needed.
 * Our agency has been using Pageline frameworks since their pre-DMS days back in
   2012 and have always been satisfied with the tools they offer. I’m not writing
   this because of any relationship our agency has with Pagelines (we don’t, they
   probably have no clue who we even are and we’ve never published a plugin for 
   their framework even) but because I hate to see a good product and useful tool
   maligned in the WP community by reviewers who probably don’t know how to even
   use the tool properly. It’s like seeing a 16 year old kid who just learned to
   drive a car climb on the back of a Ducati and ask where the brake pedals are…
 * I can’t speak to their staffing size or future (like some reviewers seem to be
   doing!) but I know in the past we would suggest bug fixes (you have to include
   your code too guys, if you are developers you know you can’t just complain about
   it, show them the line and issue) and we’d see our updated code pushed live in
   their next framework version. Made us feel like they were listening, which I’m
   pretty sure they were! What makes the open source WordPress community great is
   that those in it help make each others work better, and not just sit waiting 
   for hand outs and code freebies. If you have an issue with the PL5 tool set why
   not join their dev community and help make it better.

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