Script: Site Layout Customizer

Any WordPress developer can tell you that creating a custom layout for the WP frontpage (loop file) is probably the biggest nightmare when building a non-standard blog.

While in the past multi-column layouts drove developers mad and even made them switch platforms altogether, these days, with the help of a little plugin called “Site Layout Customizer,” almost any front-page design is possible in WordPress.

Building a newspaper layout proved quite easy in our tests, the only thing we lacked was enough dummy content in our localhost installation to take a proper snapshot of our masterpiece.

To embed the custom-built layout, the plugin creates a custom shortcode that can be embedded in any WP page. Just designate that page as the site's new homepage, and thus you replaced the rigid old WP loop and have a brand new magazine-like website.

Of course, the plugin is available in the WordPress plugin repository as well.

Download Site Layout Customizer here.

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