One thing to watch out for is where in the node hierarchy you put your configs.  If you put one specific component in a column control versus template level you end up inadvertently losing all other components.  We put all our design configs at the template region level. 

Thanks, the doc page just needs this link corrected I guess.

On this page: http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/author/page-authoring/managing-pages.html#Deleting%20a%20Page.  There is a link to How to Restore Pages.  This is supposedly the directions of restoring deleted author pages that are activated.  The link goes to a publishing page with no relevant i...

Thanks.  I was hoping this was a case of a proprietary issue with that organization.  

We were just told by another institution that node names change and are no longer the user ID strings.  They are or include some hash value for added path security.  The same institution could not migration the permissions with OOTB migration steps.  I am simply asking how to best avoid this. 

We have heard from those that have migrated that ACL migration is not easy with the new security standards in AEM 6.1.   Some are reporting lost ACLs that thye have to recreate.  This is not acceptable for our migration.  We have a very large ACL and need to migrate this into the new secure standard...

Support is saying this is known defect and is scheduled for the next release. I would encourage everyone who want to get this fixed to enter a support ticket to rally for a fix.  This is a pretty basic feature in an RTE.  As bad as the RTE is, we need to make sure that the functionality it has does ...

This is difficult question to answer without knowing the full extent of your needs.  Essentially these are two very different platforms.  For simple structured, repeating content WordPress meets the need very well on many levels.  The level of market saturation alone makes WordPress a good choice fo...

Thanks, but we should not have to extend a component every time we want some default text.  This is is not conducive to author experience.  What other alternatives are there?

No worries.  It was seem like if you had some content or a reference in a cq:include tag then that would server as a parameter in the instantiation of the component instance.  eg.<cq:include path="bodytext" resourceType="foundation/components/text"/ placeHolder="/content/placeholder-1">