Layers – A simple WordPress site builder

There are tons of WordPress site builders out there. WPMUDEV released one yesterday, calling it &#x27;the future of WordPress&#x27;.<p>Everyone is hell bent on turning WP from a CMS to an app platform. This is what results in 5mb sites and gives WP a bad reputation for being slow and clunky.

The site says &quot;<i>Layers is built into the WordPress core..</i>&quot; That means any site built with Layers could potentially break horribly when you update Wordpress. Doesn&#x27;t sound like a good idea to me.

The demo <a href="http://sites.layerswp.com/coffee/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.layerswp.com&#x2F;coffee&#x2F;</a> is down.<p>Also, what am I downloading? A plugin to wordpress?

Is it only for static page sites? I&#x27;m not seeing any demo pages for articles&#x2F;blog posts<p>I guess the underlying question is - can I have articles that similar feel to a Medium post (Large featured image with overlaying title, scroll for article - <a href="https://medium.com/help-center/images-652ee60abea6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;help-center&#x2F;images-652ee60abea6</a> )

This looks nice. I particularly like the fact that it comes with example layouts. I recently had a look at Scribe from WPMU that uses Upfront. It seemed pretty powerful, but for a non designer I need something to get started with, similar to the layouts that come with Bootstrap.<p>I&#x27;ll give this a go tonight.

I&#x27;m disappointed that I can&#x27;t find two pieces of information that are essential for me on this website:<p>* the identity of the author(s) * a link a repository hosting the source code

It&#x27;s good-looking. The discussion here alerted me to Layers and to give it a test drive. I&#x27;m working in the trial on a tablet. The layout&#x27;s cutting off a lot -- can&#x27;t even h scroll to it. <a href="http://m.imgur.com/RggaJgr" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.imgur.com&#x2F;RggaJgr</a><p>Site building on an ipad&#x27;s an edge case, but updates from one will not be.

How do I download the demo themes? I was hoping to download the <a href="http://sites.layerswp.com/acquire/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.layerswp.com&#x2F;acquire&#x2F;</a> business theme, but can&#x27;t seem to figure out how to do that through your docs.

&quot;Free Forever&quot; scares me.

It seems to lack the ability for adding a widget into a content column. Beneath my slider I display three columns, and each column contains a widget. Is it possible to add widgets into one of the columns within a Layers content widget?

I maintained a wordpress site for a client and found it to be a security nightmare.

I want to see how it evolves in the future. Cool project indeed.

What&#x27;s the catch?

Why would this be free forever? Seems like something you could charge at least a small, one-time fee for.

It looks great, I will surely give it a try on of my parent-in-law&#x27;s restaurant website.

Just had a look at the landing page. Did you guys&#x2F;gals forget some meta tags? SEO.

So this isn&#x27;t a plugin or a theme but a Wordpress clone with a custom spin on it?

I don&#x27;t want to download, just use.

&#x27;Designed for Mobile &#x27; Never mind then.

Anyone notice how crazy similar that is to Digital Ocean&#x27;s site? <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalocean.com&#x2F;</a><p>I know it&#x27;s Wordpress and all but come on.