Decouple Elementor from WordPress

[jgulledge19]

Describe the Problem

Elementor is a good tool and it looks exciting to see v4. Elementor is a WordPress plugin, but there are many other great CMS products that out there but you cannot use Elementor on them.

Propose a Solution

Just a crazy idea here, but what if Elementor became decoupled from WordPress? This would allow any other (PHP) CMS to use the power of Elementor if a developer wrote a wrapper for it.

One approach could be to spilt the current Elementor repo/package into two packages. The first package would be a standard composer PHP package with all the UI elements to build out web pages, call this the engine. The second or current repo/package would require and extend the base package to have all the specific logic to work with WordPress.

Repo/package 1, the engine
Have all the needed JS and base PHP interfaces and classes to define how all extensions must work

• Light PHP business logic, but define all aspects as interfaces, maybe just write the related data pieces to file rather than use a DB layer
• Blocks, get one, get all, update, ect.
• Handle all actions from the UI editor to the REST API
• Get a page/template
• Render a web page as HTML parts
• PHPUnit/Pest tests
• Have base configurations,
  • Config to define the routes used in the UI to interact with the server
  • To define the what PHP classes will be used
  • Could be an array of key values, like:

 'PHP' => [
   'routes' => \Elementor\Engine\UiRouteList::class,
  // Define all PHP classes used ...
]

Repo/package 2, WordPress plugin

• Implement all interfaces, extend the base classes
• Set the config to use all WP classes/routes
• Table migrations
• Save contents to the WordPress DB
• WP hooks and filters
• Other WordPress specifics, Media

Any other project could then require and extend the Elementor engine package and then define their own package that would define the DB layer. Could then be used in say a Laravel CMS.

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