At its core, Cornerstone is a collection of shortcodes which can be utilized to build out complex page layouts with near infinite customizability. Beyond that though, it’s much, much more. Cornerstone takes these integrated shortcodes and provides alongside them a simple, streamlined, drag and drop frontend interface, allowing users of all experience levels to take full control of their page layouts! If you’re unfamiliar with tools like this, don’t worry as we’ll go into more detail on this moving forward. If you have a bit of experience in these areas already, the key thing to be aware of here is that the frontend editing of tool of Cornerstone is completely uncoupled from your site’s styles and functionality, meaning that your frontend load times will remain as quick and snappy as ever and won’t ever be hindered by any functionality in the build tool itself.