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Goals

Design

The design phase of any web page or site takes days/weeks and then site is then handed off to staff who do not necessarily have design experience.  These staff members will then maintain the site for years going forward.  We can't expect those without a design background to make design decisions as they maintain the site.  V4 attempts to corral most design decisions into the Theme, an area centrally managed and applied to all content added to the site.   We're then front-loading the design work on any site and those who maintain the site going forward do not necessarily need design skills.  The result is a site that stays looking nice for years to come.

Admin

Unlike the WordPress admin which can be accessed via the *.ecpbuilder.com/wp-admin domain and the client's custom domain, the V4 admin is only accessible via dashboard.getsetpro.cloud.  There is currently no method to reach the admin via the published client website (to be discussed?).  

There are 6 different post types:

  • Page
  • Layout - used in regions (global content)
  • Form
  • Menu
  • Team (created via GSP only)
  • Locations (created via GSP only)

Cache

There is no clear cache button, v4 will clear the cache automatically.  If a page is updated, the cache for that page is cleared.  If a global area is updated like a menu or region, the full site cache is cleared.  If GSP data is updated, the cache is cleared.

Media

V4 will auto-generate a compressed webp version for any jpg or png uploaded.  Do not compress your files before uploading them to V4 as that will result in your file being double compressed.   Every file uploaded will have 10 different sizes auto-generated: 2000px, 1600px, 1200px, 1000px, 900px, 800px, 720px, 600px, 400px, and 300px wide.  V4 will auto select the proper image size, there's no need (or the means!) to specify which image size you wish to use.

Also note you can pull media from any site into any other site.   If imported media is flagged as being a 'library' image, in the future, that image will be filtered out when the site is exported for a client quit.