WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging application to a tool that can be used to design all types of web pages – direct sales pages, product showcase pages, business pages, etc.
Whatever you can think of, somewhere around the world someone is bound to be already building it using WordPress!
In this article you will discover the most easy-to-use way to build stunning content in WordPress.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Does The Default WordPress WYSIWYG Editor Still Meet All Of Your Content Creation And Editing Needs?
With all the many improvements that the WordPress platform has undergone in recent years, many WordPress users and developers believe that using the built-in WordPress WYSIWYG editor to create or edit complex page elements can sometimes be difficult.
(The built-in WordPress content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing “linear” text and images, but adding more complex content elements can be challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the layout shown below …
To add the above page elements to a page would require inserting something like this into your default WordPress visual editor …
Generally, this is not an issue … unless you want to change some part of your layout (for example, move part of the content from box 3 into box 2, or change the button in a box from dark green to gold. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the editor.
The WordPress visual content editor is supposed to give non-technical users an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, but as you can see, if you are creating with more complex layouts, often what you see in the visual editor is not the same as what you get …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some situations, some people argue that you may even be better off working directly inside the WordPress html (text) editor tab instead of the WordPress visual editor when trying to build complex page elements …
Even though WordPress is extremely easy to use, this makes it difficult for WordPress users without coding skills to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental issue with having to use HTML and shortcodes to create content with WordPress can be summarized as follows:
1) Speed – How long does it take to create a page using this editor?
2) Abstraction – How closely does the content in the editor match 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 back end does not look at all like what you see in the front end. This means that users need to translate mentally what the content will look like when working with complex layouts. Other solutions require several steps before you can begin configuring your page layout, or endlessly going back and forth between browser tabs and performing updates to see how your content is coming along, which can interrupt the creative process, as you wait for your page to refresh.
Many WordPress web developers have tried to come up with a range of solutions with the objective of making content editing more intuitive. These range from plugins you can install on your site that add new functionality to the editor, to WordPress themes that offer built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make creating complex content easier!)
Some solutions end up including so many page design features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end content editors …
Many of these alternative editors work, but they still fail to address the fundamental issue of using HTML and shortcodes as described earlier. Adding and editing sophisticated content elements on a 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 content to look “just right” quickly, this can start to become quite frustrating after a while.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like to build and edit your pages?
Now, imagine this …
- You look at your content and if you spot something that needs fixing, just click on the content and start editing it. Your content is then instantly edited.
- You can drag and drop items on the page, and the page looks exactly as it will appear on the front end without having to mentally visualize code.
- You have an idea for a specific item of content that you’d like to add, so you just begin typing, and your page gets built as you go, without delays, no switching of tab browsers, and without waiting for new web pages to reload.
Would that not be the perfect way to build content for your site? A true visual content editor where all you have to do is click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around your pages?
(Imagine being able to create complex page layouts quickly 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 Content Builder Plugin – The Simplest, Most Intuitive WYSIWYG Content Editor For WordPress Websites
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a ground-breaking plugin for WordPress that lets you easily build and change content on your posts and pages using true click-to-edit and drag and drop simplicity.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin provides WordPress users with a new and exciting way to speed up the process of adding amazing content to WordPress sites.
Once installed, Thrive Content Builder adds a visual content editor and an item menu that lets you drag and drop elements on your page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual content editor to your WordPress site)
The plugin is actually a combination of the Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages plugins combined into one, plus an additional plugin feature called Thrive Lightbox.
We will take a look at all of the above and how all of this exciting functionality works seamlessly together to help you easily transform and improve your business online and create amazing sales pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder
With the Thrive Content Builder plugin, you can easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Every aspect of your page can be configured by ”clicking-to-edit” and “dragging and dropping” things around the page …
Once you have placed your elements on the page, you can continue to further customize or edit these without having to go through multiple steps or complicated option windows …
You can also build beautiful landing pages that can also be easily edited …
Thrive Content Builder is simple, easy to use, and ideal for all WordPress users at all levels. In fact, designing web pages and working on content with the Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages plugin installed is so effortlessly simple, that the developers warn that once you start using it, you’ll never look back!
To learn more about this plugin go here: Thrive Content Builder
The integrated Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder plugin was created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another fantastic plugin we’ve reviewed on this site.
See this page to read more about the plugin:
Benefits
Below we have listed just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up content creation:
Fast And Easy To Install And Implement. Be Up And Running In Very Little Time.
Thrive Content Builder is really easy to install. Just upload it to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Edit Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is is not only really simple and intuitive to use, it also lets you create and edit content in real-time.
What You See Is Truly What You Get
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see as you work within the content editor – typefaces, elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get in the front end of your site.
Additional benefits and advantages include the following:
- Attractive Web Page Layouts With Drag-And-Drop Ease: Create any type of layout you can imagine with drag and drop ease.
- Design Elements Included: With Thrive Content Builder you not only get an exciting and an easy-to-use drag and drop content editor, but the plugin also includes an impressive collection of customizable design elements that you can customizable and add to your web pages without using short codes, such as pricing tables, content reveal feature, buttons, custom HTML and CSS, etc.
- Ideal For Non-Technical Users: Not having to deal with technical stuff for your updated content to refresh frees up your attention and allows you to build the web pages your business needs, quickly and without having to edit code or click through multiple steps to get what you want done.
(Create, edit and customize page elements like testimonial boxes, flat design elements, gradient boxes, section dividers, responsive videos, etc.)
Thrive Content Builder Features
Thrive Content Builder offers many features to web site owners. Here are just a few of these:
- Regular WordPress Editor Functionality Is Still Available: You have all of the built-in WordPress text editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold formatting, paragraph centering, heading styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements Menu: The plugin adds a “drag and drop” table of multi-style elements to your post or page screen for creating and editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin comes with a range of attention-grabbing and customizable elements that will help increase your sales conversions, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonials, and guarantee forms. In addition to being customizable, multiple design options are also available for various elements.
- Mobile-Friendly Design: Add mobile-friendly columns, guarantee boxes, dividers, e.g. which will resize and display great on different device screens.
- Add Animation Events To Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you create animations, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Landing Page 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 provides you with conversion-optimized page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages – Benefits
- Everything is hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time creating and customizing web pages for your WordPress site
- 100% conversion-optimized landing page templates
- No technical skills needed
- Works with any theme
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages not only can be used to create beautiful content in your WordPress posts and pages, but you can also choose from dozens of beautifully designed, conversion optimized page templates 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 thirty templates available, with more templates scheduled for future release. In addition to the existing templates, the developers plan to release new page templates for email lead generation, sales pages, training pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template
Normally, to be able to have a completely customizable landing page template, you would need to either pay a web site designer to do the work, or learn how to code web pages and figure out how to edit the page code 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 code or use complex 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 creating conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you attractive pre-designed web pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change or edit any aspect of the page template …
The landing page templates included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Modify text in all headlines, buttons, bullet points, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other part of your landing page
- Replace all background images or colours
- Edit the color of text, buttons, links, etc.
- Select your own fonts
- Use your own images
- Change the size of the content area
- Rearrange the order of elements on your pages
- Translate pages into different languages
- Add any type of custom content inside your pages
- Start with a blank page and create your own templates, or even build a library of custom landing pages.
(Change and edit any aspect of the page templates)
Transform Your Website Into A Powerful Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox
The Thrive plugin package includes Thrive Lightbox, which lets you add fully configurable 2-step opt-in forms and animated objects to your web site …
(Add opt-in forms and events to your WordPress web site with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process can increase your conversion rates. When visitors click on an image or button they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Visitors click on a button and are presented with an opt-in form)
Event Manager
An “event” consists of a trigger and an action. You can make opt-in forms appear when your visitor clicks or hovers their mouse over a button or graphic elements, or when someone reaches a certain point on the page. You can also use the Event Manager to animate images on your page, using various effects (e.g. zoom out, slide in from left to right, rotate, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your sales pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Lightboxes and events are created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over events, triggers and design.
User Testimonials
Here are a few of the testimonials and comments that plugin customers have published about the Thrive Content Builder plugin:
“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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”Great stuff! I am really impressed by all the new additions. You guys have shown a true commitment to making these themes and the Content Builder awesome. Michael Johnson”
Useful Tips
Thrive Content Builder works with any WordPress theme, not just with the Thrive Landing Pages plugin. You cannot use Thrive Content Builder to edit content that was not created with the plugin.
You can add WordPress short codes inside Thrive Content Builder or Thrive Landing Pages and they will display correctly on the front end.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content built with Thrive Content Builder.
Support
Thrive Content and Page Builder 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, plus 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, thirty day, full refund guarantee.
This is an exciting product that will just keep getting better.
Product Price
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 license lets you configure the plugin on a single domain. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Edition – This allows you to run the plugin on all websites that you personally own. Cost includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency License – This enables you to use the plugin on all of your own domains and all client domains. Includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Note: Price details for the Thrive Content Builder product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Currently, the plugin is selling for the pricing shown above. This may or may not be the actual price charged by the product developer when you visit the product site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Plugin Information
The Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder plugin developers repeatedly assert 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 templates that help to speed up content creation, and on the other hand, you have complete control over your design process and the freedom to edit anything and everything on your web page, using the plugin’s visual content editor, which lets you see exactly how the content you are working on will display after publishing.
For a demo video showing plugin usage, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the plugin website.
Download The Plugin …
If you want to edit something, just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you will see the change happen immediately. If you want to move something, all you have to do is drag it and drop it into its new location. There are no additional steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your site and create amazing marketing pages and engaging content, this plugin delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For complete details, check out the plugin here:
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