I’ve recently started a new job as a webmaster for an organization using WP multisite and Divi. There are a handful of people who create pages for the various sites. Most of them (maybe all) do not have web development experience. I’m coming from a role as a backend Java engineer for a large fortune 500 company. Thank the recent trend in tech layoffs for how I ended up here.
There are a lot of really bad practices happening right now. There’s no consistent style, both visually and technically. Divi is a visual builder that lets you create modules in various columnar and row layouts. People are doing all sorts of weird and annoying things, like putting custom html and styles in text blocks to do things that Divi will do for free. There’s custom CSS all over the place on top of the Divi design elements and it is often a crap shoot determining which will take priority.
I would like to build a style guide, fix everything, and then put pressure on people to follow it. I’m curious how others in similar situations are handling this? What tools are you using?
My old job had very rigid standards and styles, with everything documented in confluence. Here, I don’t have anything like that.
Is there a good way to implement documentation in WP directly with some kind of group access?
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Using a page builder like Divi gives people too much freedom. What you want to do is create your own Custom Post Types, with their own fields (using ACF), and create your own templates – that way people are only able to enter text and all styling is done via your template/css.