WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool to a tool that is now being used to design all types of web pages – marketing pages, portfolio pages, business pages, etc.
Whatever you can think of, someone is probably already building it with WordPress!
In this article you will discover how to create stunning content faster with drag & drop ease in WordPress.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Editor – Is There An Easier Tool For Creating And Editing Content In WordPress?
Using the default WordPress visual content editor to create or edit complex content elements can be difficult for non-technical web site owners.
(The WordPress WYSIWYG content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional content, but adding more complex page elements can be challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the content shown below …
Adding the above page elements would require entering something like this inside your WordPress content editor …
Normally, this is not really an issue … until you choose to change a fundamental aspect of the layout (for example, move some of the content from box 3 into box 2, or replace the background color in a box from green to some other colour. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the editor.
The WordPress editor is supposed to give non-technical users an easy-to-use WYSIWYG content editor, but as you can see, when creating with more complex content elements, what you see in the WordPress content editor is not what you are getting when your page gets published …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some instances, users may even be better off working directly inside the html (text) editor tab instead of the visual editor when trying to build non-linear layouts …
Even though WordPress is very user-friendly, this makes it hard for non-technical website owners to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental problem of using shortcodes and HTML to create content with WordPress can be summarized by asking two questions:
1) Speed – How long will it take to build a web page using the editor?
2) Abstraction – How closely does the content in the ”back end” resemble the content in the “front end” when you are creating or editing a page?
As you can see from the above screenshot, what you see when working in the content editor does not look at all like what you see in the front end. This means that users have to abstract what the content will look like when working with complex layouts. Other solutions require several steps before you can start configuring your page layout, or endlessly going back and forth between browser tabs and performing tweaks and updates to see how your content is progressing, which then affects how quickly you can create your content, as you wait for your page to load.
Many WordPress developers have tried to come up with a range of solutions with the goal of making content editing easier. Some of these solutions range from stand alone plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to themes that come with built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make creating complex page layouts easier!)
Some solutions include so many page design features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these editors work, but they still don’t address the fundamental problem with using HTML and shortcodes as described earlier. Adding and editing sophisticated content elements on a web page becomes overly complicated, involves multiple steps and doesn’t match what users expect to see on the “front end.”
If you want your web pages to look “just right” quickly, this can start to become really frustrating after a while.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like to build and edit your web content?
Now, visualize this …
- You look at your content and if you spot something that needs changing, just click on the content and start changing it. Your content has been instantly fixed.
- You can drag and drop elements around the page, and see them exactly as they will appear on the front end without having to mentally visualize code.
- You have an idea for a specific piece of content you would like to create, so you just start typing, and your web page gets built as you go, without delays, no switching tabs, and no waiting for new web pages to resave and reload.
Would this not be the perfect way to create content for your WordPress web site? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around your pages and posts?
(Imagine being able to create complex web page layouts in real-time for your web content with no technical skills required!)
If you are ready to change the way you create content in WordPress site, then here is a plugin that you may want to consider using …
Thrive Landing Pages And Content Builder – Click-To-Edit Drag & Drop Content Creation Plugin For WordPress
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive WordPress click-to-edit drag-and-drop content creator.
Thrive Content Builder is a new and incredibly easy way to set up conversion-focused pages on any WordPress website.
Once installed, Thrive Content Builder adds a visual content editor and an item menu that lets you drag and drop design elements to your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual editor to WordPress)
The plugin is actually a combination of the Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages plugins merged into one, plus an additional plugin feature called Thrive Lightbox.
We will take a look at all of the above and how these features work seamlessly together to help you easily transform and improve your website and create awesome sales pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder – WordPress Plugin
With this plugin installed easily add content to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Every aspect of your page can be built with ”click-to-edit” and “drag and drop” ease …
Once elements have been positioned on a page, you can then easily edit these without going through multiple steps or opening new settings screens …
You can also build highly attractive landing pages that can just as easily be edited or customized …
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder is simple, easy to use, and ideal for all WordPress users at all levels. In fact, designing pages and working on content with the Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder plugin installed is so amazingly easy, that the developers warn that you’ll never look back once you start using it
For more details, visit the plugin site here: Thrive Content Builder
Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages were created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another amazing plugin we’ve written about on this site.
To read about this plugin, see this page:
Benefits
Here we have listed just some of the many benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up the process of designing pages and creating content for your WordPress web site:
Quick And Simple To Install And Set Up. Ready To Start Using In Minutes.
Thrive Content Builder is really easy to install. Simply upload a zip file containing the plugin to your Plugin folder via your WP admin user account and activate.
Build And Edit Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is very simple and intuitive to use and lets you build content in real-time.
A Truly Visual Editor
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see as you work within the content editor – typefaces, elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what your visitors will see on the front end of your site.
Some additional benefits of the plugin include the following:
- Beautiful Web Page Layouts With Drag-And-Drop Ease: Create any layout you can imagine with drag and drop ease.
- Add Customizable Elements With No Short Codes Required: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get an amazing click-to-edit WordPress content editor, but the plugin also includes a collection of web design elements that you can add to your web pages without using short codes, like pricing tables, content reveal feature, dividers, countdown timers, etc.
- More Enjoyable Content Creation: Not having to wait for the updates to reload frees up your attention and allows you to build the content your business needs, quickly and without having to mess with code or click through multiple steps to get what you need done.
(Add, edit and customize web page elements like testimonial boxes, flat design elements, table of contents builder, dividers, HTML code insert boxes, etc.)
Thrive Content Builder Features
Thrive Content Builder provides a number of unique features to WordPress users. Below we have listed just a few of these:
- All Editor Functionality Is Preserved: You have access to all of the regular text editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold, paragraph centering, headings and font sizes, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” list of multi-style elements available on your post or page screen for editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin includes various attention-grabbing and customizable elements that will help you increase your conversions, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonials, and guarantees. In addition to being customizable, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Responsive Design: Add responsive columns, guarantee boxes, section dividers, e.g. which will display great on different-sized screens.
- Add Animation Events To Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you insert animations, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Landing Page Template Sets
Thrive Landing Pages provides sets of templates that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language to take your visitors all the way from initial signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages gives you access to conversion-optimized page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time creating beautiful landing pages
- 100% conversion-optimized pages
- No coding skills required
- Works with any WordPress theme
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages not only lets you create beautiful-looking content in your WordPress posts and pages, but you can also choose from dozens of professionally designed, page templates that are conversion-optimized and fully customizable …
(Thrive Landing Pages provides sets of templates that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language)
There are over 30 templates available, with more templates being worked on. In addition to the templates that are currently available, the developers plan to release new web page templates for email lead generation, sales pages, training pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable Landing Page Template Sets
Typically, in order to fully customize landing page templates, you would need to either hire a web site developer to do the work, or learn how to code web pages and figure out what to do yourself.
As Shane Melaugh, co-founder of Thrive Themes says …
“There are many ways to get a pre-designed page published quickly, but the problem comes with customization. Total design freedom requires either hiring web developers to do the work for you, or learn how to do it yourself, which involves learning how to mess around with code or use complicated editors. Customizable usually means complicated, expensive or time-consuming. So, you can either have something that is fast and easy to set up, or something that is customizable and flexible. But you couldn’t have both … until now! With Thrive Landing Pages you get the best of both worlds for building conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you stunning pre-built web page templates that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change and customize any aspect of the page templates …
With the landing page templates included with this plugin, you are able to:
- Edit text in any bullet point, headline, button, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other part of the landing page
- Change the background image and edit color
- Change the color of text, links, buttons, etc.
- Select your own fonts
- Use your own images
- Edit content area size
- Change the order of elements on the pages
- Translate pages into a different language
- Add any type of custom content in the pages
- Start with a blank page and create your own templates, or even build your own custom landing page templates library.
(Change and edit anything on the page)
Transform Your Site Into A Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox Plugin
The Thrive package also includes Thrive Lightbox, which lets you add fully configurable 2-step opt-in forms and events to your site …
(Add lead capture forms and events to your WordPress site with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A 2-step opt-in process can improve your conversion rates. When visitors click on an image or button they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Capture more leads and subscribers with a 2-step opt-in process)
Thrive Lightbox Event Manager
An “event” consists of a trigger and an action. You can make an opt-in form appear when your visitor clicks or hovers their mouse over a button or an image, or when someone reaches a certain point on the page. You can also use the Event Manager to animate attention-getting elements on your page, using a range of animation effects (e.g. zoom in from the page center, slide in from right to left, roll in, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Lightboxes and events are created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over all events, triggers and design.
User Testimonials
Below are just some testimonials and comments that plugin users have provided for Thrive Content Builder:
“I have had nothing but the best experience imaginable with this tool since I purchased it. This is by far one of, if not the best plug-in I have purchase to date and it has definitely made working with WordPress a whole new experience. Jim Bond”
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“I’m blown away by the plugin. Keep up the incredible, WordPress changing work, guys! Dean Phillips”
Thrive Content Builder Plugin – Tips
Thrive Content Builder works with any theme in WordPress, not just with Thrive Landing Pages. You cannot use Thrive Content Builder to edit content that was not created using the plugin.
You can add shortcodes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will be displayed correctly on your website.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content built with Thrive Content Builder.
Support
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages comes with free updates, new landing pages and upcoming features. The plugin developers are constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive software is well-supported, and users get unlimited upgrades, and 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, thirty day, full money-back guarantee.
This is an exciting product that just keeps getting better.
Plugin Pricing
At the time of writing, the pricing information shown below includes all three components described above (Thrive Content Builder, Thrive Landing Pages & Thrive Lightbox):
- Single Site Licensing – This enables you to use the plugin on one domain only. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This enables you to activate the plugin on all of your personal web sites. It includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency License Edition – Use on all your sites & on all your client websites. Includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Cost = $247.00 per year.
Note: Pricing details of the Thrive Content Builder plugin can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Presently, the product is being retailed for the prices shown above. This may or may not be the actual pricing charged by the plugin developer when you visit the product website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Info
The Thrive Content and Landing Page Builder plugin developers repeatedly maintain that the plugin’s architecture gives you the “best of both worlds,” and help bring back the “joy of creating content.”
On the one hand, you have time-saving features like ready-made page elements and conversion-optimized template sets that help speed up page design and content creation, and on the other hand, you also have 100% control over your design process and the freedom to edit anything and everything on your web page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, that lets you see how the content you are working on will look on the “front end” after publishing.
For a demo video showing how the software works, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive plugins website.
Download The Plugin …
If you want to edit something, just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, do it, and you can see the change happen instantly. If you want to move something, just drag it and drop it into its new location. There are no unnecessary steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your web presence and create awesome sales pages and engaging content, Thrive Content Builder delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For full details, check out the plugin here:
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