Can Bluefoot be extended/customized?

Question

Is there currently anyway to extend bluefoot functionality (bluefoot)? I found that its vendor folder is located at vendor/gene/bluefoot. Let's say I wanted to add another tab to the panel on the right of the wysiwyg.

If it can be extended, could I do it inside my custom theme like I would extend core magento modules? Or would it have to be altered inside the vendor folder?

Answer 1

Magento modules can be used from app/code/* and from vendor directory, which used by composer.

In order to understand whether the package is a magento module, find in the root of the package the file registration.php.

If file exist and contains code like

\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register(
    \Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::MODULE,
    'Vendor_ModuleName',
    __DIR__ );

then it is magento module and you can use default ways (applicable to any core module) for customization (including using custom theme).

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For component registration in composer package can be used files with other name (not registration.php). For get used file you can look at composer.json section autoload/files

"autoload": {
        "files": [ "mycustomfilename.php" ],
}

Answer 2

Extends Bluefoot Module in your custom Theme.

app/design/frontend/Theme_namespace/Your_theme/Gene_BlueFoot

Change: Gene_Bluefoot -> Gene_BlueFoot