Consideration of structural elements

What has been built thus far is a positively beautiful! Big props to all who have helped make it happen to date. I'm creating this ticket to prime(1) the conversation about being able to edit structural elements within a front-end editing environment.

Structural elements: rows, columns, grids, fluid containers, etc. I can't offer any meaningful suggestion on how they would be managed between editor and markup, but can offer a as-is and desired use case examples that might help?

Current Use Case Scenario
A nice combination for building templates with a Bootstrap based theme and some external tools:

• Activate a child theme from wp-bootstrap - ​http://320press.com/wpbs/
• Login to easel.io to drag & drop a mockup with static content
• Use its' export to html/css feature
• Paste CSS into child style.css
• Paste html into page template
• Use ACF to setup meta fields for admin data capture
• Replace static elements with dynamic WP generated tags

I can define all the rows, columns, etc that I want from bootstrap CSS, but the markup is confined to pre-defined templates. Users have as much flexibility in creation of content as I have with this mix of tools.

Future Front-End Editor Scenario

• Activate a child theme from wp-bootstrap
• Go to front-end of site and create new page (or CPT)
• Drag structural elements onto page
• Add content blocks into defined areas
• Press Gear off admin bar to get to meta data entry (if needed)

This probably brings up some related questions about whether/how short codes and widgets could be registered to the front-end editor that may be better suited for other feature plugins to solve. But, I think with the amount of editors which offer columns-via-short codes with a UI in the admin it would be well suited for consideration for front-end editor.

(1) Prime or continue the conversation:
​http://torquemag.io/rethinking-the-wordpress-editor/