There is no easy answer…it depends.
Personally, I’ve been blown away so far with Enfold, especially with the Avia advanced editor. Granted, the flexibility that page builders bring in being able to easily create a custom page layout without touching any code or CSS often comes with a huge price in page-code bloat. From what I’ve seen so far though, I think it is excellent, and not much more than one would expect with many of the frameworks that are out there.
I also think Enfold has a very clean and well organized UI, powerful but simple, which is rare. Most importantly, I think it will make it much easier for me to pull together a site that is visually unique…not exactly Enfold, not exactly GD.
The biggest challenge currently falls into two areas, that will hopefully not be an issue here soon (hopefully)…
– having a truly stable GD release candidate…not a knock against the team as I know they are doing a great job, but I think we are still very much alpha stage, hopefully bordering on beta here soon. Unfortunately though, themes and compatibility packs really aren’t of much use until the foundation is shored up.
– challenge of taking full advantage of what Enfold can do. The Avia builder is great, but I also have to rely on the AMR Shortcode Any Widget plugin to fully tap into the ability to create custom pages. And of course, that gets limited for GD beyond the homepage as well…but those limitations aren’t any or at least much different with GDF.
Ultimately though, as they say, your mileage may vary.
Cheers,
Brian
John Allsopp 10 years, 3 months ago.
