We are investigating moving from static to editable templates. We are struggling to reconcile a few items, however and are looking for some advice on best practices and recommendations.
Background Information:
- We are hosting around 200 unique sites in AEM
- We we likely be adding another 200-300 sites
- All of our sites share a few common things
- Corporate branding at the top and bottom of all pages
- They all leverage a common set of components
- They share common functionality for things like form submissions
- All of our sites are using unique designs
- The majority of our sites are completely independent from each other in terms of content, design, and layout.
- We currently have ~10 static templates that are utilized to build these sites, and add new pages
- The sites typically have their header/footer setup on a root page and these are inherited down using iparsys components currently
While researching editable templates we have been given the impression that these are really architected towards creating a set of templates per site. It also seems like the use of iparsys is no longer recommended and possibly not supported with editable templates.
As each of our sites would need between 6 and 10 templates we do not believe it would be sustainable to have a unique set of templates per site (templates would total in the thousands).
If we could get some feedback on these points, and some recommendations for how to manage/build editable templates in a scenario like ours that would be great.