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Extending Craft CMS to build bespoke experiences
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Nzime Dev Team
While Craft CMS on its own is a very powerful, intuitive and easy to use CMS, it simply cannot accommodate for every scenario out of the box. Luckily, Craft offers an amazing eco-system for developers through plugins. Think of plugins as lego bricks - you can build some cool stuff with them! :)
With plugins, we can build on top of Craft without directly modifying any of the core functionality.
"But what does that mean for us and why should we care?", you may ask.
Well, without plugins, any of the work done on the core CMS for the website would be completely overwritten in a Craft update. Also, if you decide that you may no longer need/want a feature, it can be easily disabled from the plugins section in the admin dashboard.
"That sounds cool but can we see a demo or something?"
I'm glad you asked that!
We can take a look at a layout field that we built for one of our wonderful clients, REED Talent Solutions.
This is what the field looks like in the dashboard:
Selecting the required layout style alters how the associated content is displayed to the end user.
...and this is how it looks on the live site:
Because of the layout field plugin, we can now give our clients the power to change and customise their page layouts through a simple selector.
Plugin types can also range from adding SEO focussed functionality through to advanced import/export capabilities. 100's of plugins are available or can be written to meet your requirements by our team of developers.
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