Tree at sunset

This tree sillhouette was captured at sunset near Otter Rock, Oregon in 2023

Jeremy Davidson

April 14, 2023

Why visual editing?

Visual editing is the most natural interface for content creators: it's the interface we use to edit a document in Word or Pages. Developers are used to edit code in one place and see the result in another one, but marketing people and content creators don't like that friction.

Headless CMSs where created mainly to make the developers' life easier, but with headless CMSs we lost the visual editing of content that we had with a blank WordPress page, replacing it with ugly gray forms. And we lost the clean and simple concept of "Page", too: we take it back!