In reply to Kristin.

Hi Kristen,

If you haven't already, I'd encourage you to install WP Customize Posts and have a play around. A lot of what you're describing around Front End editing has been achieved, and in an incredibly intuitive way.

I agree that the Front-end Editor plugin is amazing. We've taken a lot of inspiration from it in WP Customize Posts. One of the problems I have with it, though, is that it's really hard to do things like updating a page template, or a feature image, or categories and tags without those dedicated controls. You don't have that problem in the Customizer.

To your point of seeing the effects of your changes right away, that's exactly what WP Customize Posts addresses. For me, I use it to quickly updated headings (do I use a h2 or h3 here?) and see the effect of that in the post immediately. It's also great for previewing changes on mobile devices as you make them.

We'll be doing some user testing on the plugin soon, to get a feel for what "regular people" think about using the Customizer for editing posts and pages. If it's too confusing, we hope to address that. If you'd like to take part, or maybe you have clients who would like to participate, shoot me an email. :) luke@xwp.co