Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tyingq 1183 days ago
>I am referring to the WordPress and Shopify ecosystems here

>The content is not reusable (you cannot reuse content on other pages)

Not sure I understand this. Platforms like WordPress certainly have widgets, reusable blocks, shared headers/footers, and so on.

3 comments

I think their objections are deeper than that. I haven't used wordpress for ages, but they're talking about 'drag and drop builders' which I'd associate more with wix or Squarespace than wordpress.

Fundamentally, I think the issue is that it's very hard to achieve modularisation, especially via a gui, if the client doesn't understand or care about it.

WordPress has drag and drop theme "builders" (Elementor and others.). He is probably referring to that.
Maybe what they’re referring to is your own content? Can you create your own reusable blocks