Bindery

Bindery gives any WordPress theme a clean, locked, edit-in-place experience — without a page builder and without giving up hand-written markup.

Custom and AI-built themes are fast and clean, but content-hostile: a client can’t change a headline or a phone number without a developer. Page builders fix that but bloat your markup and your editing screen. Bindery is the missing middle — you decide what a client may change, and they edit only that, right on the live page.

Everything is built on native WordPress primitives (the Block Bindings API, block.json , the REST API), so Bindery never owns your markup and adds no builder lock-in.

What it does

• Edit on the live page. A floating “✎ Edit page” button turns the regions you declared into inline-editable text. Click, type, click away — saved.
• No-code setup. From the Bindery settings screen, tick which HTML tags (headings, paragraphs, lists, quotes…) become editable site-wide. That’s it.
• Or mark regions in code. A one-line template helper ( bindery_attrs() ) makes a single element editable; template tags render declared fields anywhere; eight ready-made blocks cover richer content.
• Locked by design. Only declared regions are editable. Layout, structure and anything unmarked stay untouchable — clients can’t break the design.
• Multilingual. Every field stores a value per language; unedited languages fall back to your code default.
• Revision history + one-click restore for every edit.
• Export / import all content as JSON for staging → production migrations (also via WP-CLI).
• Theme-portable. Verified across Astra, OceanWP, Neve, the default Twenty-* themes and block (FSE) themes; the bundled blocks adapt to your theme’s colours.

Five ways to make content editable

1. 01Settings page — choose editable tags, zero code.
2. 02Attribute helper — bindery_attrs() marks one element editable in your template.
3. 03Blocks — drop a Bindery block into the block editor.