Why We Developed the Visual Page Builder for Pimcore

Pimcore is a powerful and comprehensive framework for creating Digital Experience Platforms (DXP). Pimcore provides an integrated set of core technologies that support the creation, management, delivery and optimisation of contextual digital experiences, including digital transactions. While unlimited customisability is an absolute necessity for larger brands, the effort involved for smaller companies is a difficult hurdle to overcome in order to successfully use this powerful tool. The Blackbit Visual Page Builder for Pimcore, like all our Pimcore extensions, reduces the initial effort required and thus makes Pimcore attractive to a larger target group.

Once the visual page builder is installed, documents can be created immediately in Pimcore – without any programming. All you need to do is install the page builder and set up a host to make the website publicly accessible.

Are you familiar with the chicken and egg problem? Your customer needs a template to write content, while your designer cannot create a suitable design without content. This dilemma often leads to multiple iterations when developing designs, modules and templates for the CMS, which in turn increases the initial costs. Furthermore, the design often does not match the content created later and has to be adapted accordingly.

With the Blackbit Visual Page Builder and a standard theme, however, content can be created immediately and then customised using CSS as soon as it is finished.

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The Blackbit Visual Page Builder for Pimcore offers a user-friendly interface for efficient content maintenance. The document structure is clearly displayed in a structure tree. When you select an element, the cursor jumps directly to it, enabling intuitive editing. Each element can be named individually to maintain an overview even with extensive documents. In addition, module settings can be conveniently customised on the right-hand side of the screen – without any additional windows.

The Blackbit Visual Page Builder for Pimcore contains all the essential modules needed for a modern website. Custom modules can be added at any time by an experienced Pimcore developer (from version 1.0).

A Visual Page Builder for Pimcore would not be complete if it could not output data from Pimcore objects or did not work seamlessly with the Blackbit Data Director to automatically create documents from these objects.