Use case for Plasmic and what happens if it goes away

Plasmic Studio Questions
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Hey all. Ran across Plasmic a few months ago and have had it bookmarked to check out at a later. I’m looking for examples of other’s processes that may be similar to mine.

I’m a web dev/digital specialist at a medium-sized communications/PR firm. We work with local and regional companies with 20-500 employees, NPOs, and local government initiatives. Not a lot of dynamic information, outside of blog and news updates and events. A few B2B/long funnel eComm sites, virtually no retail though. We currently have a very refined design and development process using exclusively WordPress/Divi. My interests in Plasmic are: increase efficiency and fidelity to design in the handoff to development; increased security and site speed; and maintaining ease of updates for client’s to update their blogs/news, and events.

Also, what does it look like if Plasmic goes away the day after I launch 100 sites utilizing it?

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That’s great! I think Plasmic could be a really helpful tool for your use case!

It’s pretty simple to switch between our Headless API and codegen
https://docs.plasmic.app/learn/loader-vs-codegen/

With codegen, your components are exported into React code that is checked into your git repo,

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What you’ve described is essentially our primary use case - you can check out our case studies on the website for details.

If you are newly transitioning from Wordpress to a modern framework with security and speed, I would generally recommend looking at Next.js.

You can use this to spin up a Next.js codebase that’s already fully configured with Plasmic, so that your team can immediately make visual edits:

https://docs.plasmic.app/learn/quickstart-gui/

And as Ray mentioned, while usually you’ll want to use the headless API to enable non-developers to publish changes, you can always eject with codegen.

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Thank you for the replies @ray and @yang. I’d love to talk with an agency that is building and managing multiple kinds of WP sites about their full process from design to development through long-term management.

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I’m trying to gauge the value of not just Plasmic, but headless WP as a whole. Does it work for all of my clients? Does it add value in the right area for both my design and dev team, as well as the end user?