WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool to a tool that can be used to design all types of web pages – landing pages, product showcase pages, business pages, etc.
Whatever you can imagine, somewhere around the world someone is bound to be already building it using WordPress!
This article will help you discover the simplest WYSIWYG editor for WordPress.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Visual Content Editor – Is There A Faster Option For Creating And Editing Content In WordPress?
Using the WordPress visual content editor to create or edit complex website pages can be quite challenging.
(The WordPress WYSIWYG editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional text and images, but adding more complex page elements can be challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the layout shown below …
To create the above layout, users would normally have to add short codes to the content for each page element they would like to display …
Generally, this is not an issue … until you want to change your layout (for example, move part of the content from box 3 into box 2, or change the background color inside box 3 from green to gray. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with page code.
The WordPress editor is supposed to provide users with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) content editor, but as you can see, when working with complex layouts, what you see on your editor screen may not be the same as what you are getting when your web page goes live …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some cases, you may even be better off working inside the html editor tab instead of the WordPress WYSIWYG editor when trying to add complex layouts …
Even though WordPress is very user-friendly, this makes it hard for users with no coding skills to fully manage their own content.
The fundamental issue about having to use shortcodes and HTML to create content in WordPress can be summarized by asking the following 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 editor 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 doesn’t look even remotely similar to what you see in the front end. This means that users need to translate mentally what the content will look like when working with sophisticated layouts. Other solutions require taking multiple steps before you can start configuring your page layout, or endlessly going back and forth between browser tabs and performing updates to see how your content is progressing, which interrupts the creative process, as you wait for your new content to load.
Many WordPress developers have tried to come up with different solutions to try and make the visual editor easier. These range from WordPress 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 content easier!)
Some solutions end up including so many complex page design features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these solutions work, but they fail to address the fundamental challenge of using HTML and shortcodes as described earlier. Creating and adding 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 page content to look ”perfect” quickly, this can become very frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your web content builder to function?
Now, imagine this …
- You look at your content and if you see something that needs to be corrected, simply click on the content and start writing. Your content is instantly changed.
- You simply drag and drop items on the page, and see them exactly as they will appear on the front end without having to mentally translate code.
- You have an idea for a specific piece of content you’d like to add, so you just begin typing, and your web page gets built as you go, without delays, without tab switching, and without waiting for new pages to republish and reload.
Would this not be the ideal way to create content for your website? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around your pages and posts?
(Imagine being able to create complex pages 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 Content Builder Plugin – The Ultimate Click-To-Edit Front End Content Editor For WordPress Websites
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive click-to-edit drag and drop content and page creator for WordPress.
Thrive Content Builder provides WordPress users with a new and exciting way to set up conversion-focused pages on any WordPress web site.
Once installed, Thrive Content Builder adds a visual content editor with an item menu that lets you click, then drag and drop design elements to your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual content editing option to WordPress)
The Thrive Landing Pages And Content Builder plugin is actually a combination of the Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages plugins rolled into one, plus an additional plugin feature called Thrive Lightbox.
Let’s take an in-depth a look at each of the above plugins and how these features work seamlessly together to help you transform and improve your web site and create amazing marketing pages and content.
Thrive Content Builder Plugin
Thrive Content Builder lets you easily add content to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Everything on your web page can be built, edited and rearranged using simple “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” …
Once elements have been positioned on your page, you can then edit them without having to go through multiple steps or opening more settings screens …
You can also work inside stunning landing pages that can just as easily be edited or customized …
Thrive 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 Content and Landing Page Builder plugin installed is so amazingly easy, that the developers guarantee that you’ll never look back once you start using it
Go here to learn more about the plugin: Thrive Content Builder
Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages were created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another excellent plugin that we have previously recommended on this site.
To read more about this plugin, go here:
Plugin Benefits
Here we have listed just a few of the benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up the process of creating content for your WordPress web site:
Ready To Start Using In Minutes
Thrive Content Builder is very easy to install. Simply upload a zip folder containing the plugin files to your Plugin folder via your admin user section and activate.
Edit Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is really simple to use and lets you edit content in real-time.
A Truly Visual Editor
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see on the “back-end” as you work within the editor – fonts, elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get in the front end of your site.
Some additional plugin benefits include:
- Beautiful Web Page Layouts With Drag And Drop Ease: Create any kind of layout you can imagine with drag-and-drop ease.
- Add Customizable Elements With No Shortcodes Involved: With Thrive Content Builder you not only get a drag and drop WordPress content builder, but the plugin also includes an impressive collection of customizable design elements that you can customizable and use on your pages without using short codes, such as columns, gradient boxes, testimonials, responsive videos, 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 pages your business needs, quickly and without having to mess with code or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you need done.
(Thrive Content Builder lets you easily create, edit and customize web page elements like testimonials, tabbed content, styled lists, buttons, custom HTML and CSS, etc.)
Thrive Content Builder Features
Thrive Content Builder offers a number of powerful features to web site owners. Here are just a few of these:
- Built-In WordPress Content Functionality Is Preserved: You have access to all of the regular WordPress text editing options that you are used to (e.g. underline, paragraph centering, headings and font sizes, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Multi-Style Elements Menu: The plugin adds a “drag and drop” table of multi-style elements to your post or page screen for 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 guarantees. In addition to being customizable, multiple design options are also available for various elements.
- Responsive Design: Add responsive columns, boxes, dividers, e.g. which will resize and display great on different device screens.
- Add Animation Events To Your Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you create animated buttons, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages – Landing Page Sets
Landing page template sets are 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 plugin lets you easily add conversion-optimized web pages to your website)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time and money designing and customizing pages for your WordPress website
- 100% conversion-optimized web pages
- No technical skills needed
- Works with all WordPress themes
Thrive Content and Page Builder not only lets you create beautiful content in your WordPress posts and pages, but you can also choose from dozens of professionally designed, landing 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 currently over thirty templates available, with more templates being worked on. In addition to the templates shown above, the developers plan to release new page templates for email lead generation, sales pages, course pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template
Typically, in order to fully customize a landing page template, you would need to either hire a web developer 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 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 creating conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you beautiful pre-designed pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that allows you to change or customize any element of your page templates …
The landing page template sets included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Change text in any button, bullet point, headline, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other element of the landing page
- Replace all background images and edit colour
- Edit the color of links, text, buttons, etc.
- Select your own fonts
- Select your own images
- Modify content area size
- Rearrange the order of web page elements
- Translate pages into a different language
- Add custom content in the pages
- Start with a blank page and create your own templates, or even build a custom landing pages library.
(Change or edit any element of your page templates)
Transform Your WordPress Site Into A Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox Plugin
The Thrive package includes Thrive Lightbox, which lets you add fully editable two-step opt-in forms and events to your WordPress site …
(Add lead capture forms and animated elements to your pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
2-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process can improve your conversion rates. Visitors click on a button or image, and then they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Capture more leads and subscribers with a two-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 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 pages, using various effects (e.g. fade in, slide in from right to left, roll in, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your WordPress website with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
A lightbox and event is created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over events, triggers and design.
Testimonials
Below are just some testimonials that plugin customers have submitted regarding Thrive Content Builder:
”You guys are simply awesome I am loving everything you are doing at the moment. Keep up the great work you really are making such a big difference in this field. Jule Fuller”
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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 Thrive Landing Pages. You cannot use Thrive Content Builder to edit content that was not created using the plugin.
You can add short codes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will display correctly when published.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content built using Thrive Content Builder.
Product Support
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder comes with free updates, new landing templates and upcoming features. The plugin developers are constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive software is really well-supported, and users get unlimited updates, and one year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 30 day, 100% refund guarantee.
This is an exciting product that just keeps getting better.
Software 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 License Edition – This allows you to set up the plugin on 1 website only. Price includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Edition – This enables you to configure the plugin on unlimited domains that you own. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency Edition – This edition allows you to run the plugin on all of your own domains and any client websites. It includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Note: The cost to purchase the product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The price above was current when this review was written. This may not be the actual price set by the plugin seller when you visit the website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest pricing here:
Additional Plugin Information
The developers of the Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages plugin 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 web page elements and beautiful, pre-designed templates that help to make designing your content faster, and on the other hand, you also have 100% control over the design process and the freedom to change everything on your web page, using the plugin’s visual content editor, which lets you see how the content you are working on will appear to visitors after publishing.
For ”how to” videos of the plugin in action, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the plugin website.
Install This Plugin …
If you want to edit something, you click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you’ll see the change happen instantly. If you want to move something, all you have to do is drag it and drop it into its new position. There are no additional steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your site and create awesome marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content, Thrive Content and Page Builder delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For full details, visit the plugin website:
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