WordPress love—install CMS on top of WP to add in-context editing and more...

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Snaplive (my FOSS project) is a full-featured sitebuilder, but it can also be installed on top of WordPress to add in-context editing and (much more). It also keeps everything in sync, so that you can switch between the two: http://snaplive.org/developers/blog/wordpress-love/

Looking for feedback :-)

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An interesting concept, although to be honest, I don't think you need the WordPress parts. I'd prefer to have a clean break from the spaghetti code of WordPress (but you could still have an import/export feature). I think the in-context editing part is very appealing (I have similar functionality in my plugin on CodeCanyon - http://codecanyon.net/item/textmorph-wp-onpage-editor/484369...). There is another CMS, Barley, that does something similar too.

Looks very interesting -- though it probably needs to be a bit more hands on than just a video to get much concrete feedback!

Can you give a few more details on how the plumbing works: from the video it isn't clear how the JS is being injected into the page (you just seemed to add a data attribute). How is the persistence handled?

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