WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool to a tool that can be used to create all types of web sites.
Whatever you can think of, somewhere around the world someone is probably already building it using WordPress!
In this article you will discover the ultimate click-to-edit front end content builder for WordPress.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Is The WordPress Visual Content Editor Meeting All Of Your Content Creation And Editing Needs?
Using the default WordPress WYSIWYG editor to build or edit sophisticated website pages can sometimes be quite difficult.
(The default WordPress WYSIWYG content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional text and images, but adding more complex page elements can be challenging!)
For example, if you look at the screenshot below …
To add the above boxes with text and buttons to a page would require entering something like this in the default WordPress visual editor …
Normally, this is not an issue … unless you want to reconfigure the layout (for example, move some of the content from box 3 into box 2, or change the background color in a box from bright red to maroon. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code.
The WordPress visual content editor is supposed to give users an easy-to-use WYSIWYG content editor, but as you can see, if you are trying to edit complex layouts, often what you see on your screen may not be the same as what you get …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some cases, some people argue that users may even be better off working directly inside the WordPress html (text) editor tab instead of the WordPress visual editor when trying to add complex page elements …
Even though WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platform available, this makes it hard for WordPress site owners with no coding skills to fully manage their own content.
The fundamental issue with using shortcodes and HTML to create content in the default WordPress visual editor can be summarized by asking the following questions:
1) Speed – How long does it take to create a page using the 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, what you see in the editor looks nothing like what you see in the front end. This means that you need to mentally translate 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 switching browser tabs and performing updates to see how your content is progressing, which can affect how fast you can create your content, as you wait for the new content to reload.
Many WordPress web developers have come up with various solutions to make the visual editor more intuitive. These range from stand alone WordPress plugins you can install on your site that add new functionality to the editor, to themes that provide built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make creating complex layouts easier!)
Some solutions end up including so many page design features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these solutions work, but they don’t really seem to address the fundamental issue of using shortcodes and HTML as described earlier. Creating, 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 to create or edit complex layouts quickly, this can become quite frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your web content editor to function?
Now that you’ve asked this question, visualize the following scenario …
- You see something in the content that needs fixing so you, just click on the content and start editing it. Your content is instantly changed.
- You just drag and drop elements on the page, and see them exactly as they will appear on the front end without having to mentally abstract from shortcodes or HTML.
- You have an idea for some content that you’d like to create, so you just begin typing, and your web page gets built as you go, with no delays, no tab switching, and without having to wait for new web 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 the pages?
(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 Content Builder Plugin – Create Beautiful Layouts With Drag & Drop Ease In WordPress Web Sites
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a ground-breaking plugin for WordPress that allows you to easily build and edit content on your posts and pages with true click-to-edit and drag and drop simplicity.
Thrive Content Builder is a new and exciting way to speed up the process of creating amazing content on.
Once installed, Thrive Content Builder adds a visual content editor and a sidebar menu that lets you click, then drag and drop design elements to your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content editor to your WordPress site)
Thrive Content And Landing Page Builder 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.
Let’s review all of the above plugins and how these features work together to help you easily transform and improve your web presence and create awesome marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder For WordPress
This plugin lets you easily add complex design layouts to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Every aspect of your page can be designed by dragging and dropping things around the page and then clicking to edit them …
Once elements have been added to the page, you can continue to further customize them without having to go through multiple steps or switching tabs …
You can also build beautiful landing pages that can just as easily be edited or customized …
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages is simple, easy to use, and ideal for all WordPress users at all levels. In fact, working on content with the plugin installed is so amazingly simple, that the developers warn that once you start using it, it will ruin the experience of using any other content editor forever, and you will never look back!
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 great plugin that we have previously written about on this site.
To read about this plugin, go here:
Benefits Of Using Thrive Content Builder And Landing Pages
Here we have listed just some of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up content creation:
Installation Is Easy And Quick
Thrive Content Builder is quite easy to install. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Real-Time Content Content Creation
Thrive Content Builder is really simple and intuitive to use and lets you build and add content to your pages in real-time.
What You See Is Really What You Get
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see on the “back-end” as you work within the editor – fonts, visual elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get in the front end of your site.
Some additional benefits and advantages include the following:
- Eye-Catching Page Layouts With Drag-And-Drop Ease: Create any type of layout you can imagine with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality.
- Customizable Elements Included: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get an amazing drag and drop WordPress content editor, but the plugin also includes a very decent collection of customizable web design elements that you can use on your content layouts without using short codes, such as pricing tables, table of contents builder, call to action buttons, responsive maps, etc.
- Ideal For Non-Technical Users: Not having to wait for for your updated content to load frees up your attention and allows you to be more focused while you build or edit your content or click through multiple steps to get what you need done.
(Easily create, edit and customize page elements like testimonial boxes, columns, borderless content, call to action buttons, responsive Google map embeds, etc.)
Thrive Content Builder Features
Thrive Content Builder offers many powerful features to WordPress users. Here are just some:
- Regular WordPress Editor Functionality Is Preserved: You have access to all of the regular text editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold formatting, centering text, headings and font sizes, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements Menu: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” list of multi-style elements available on your post or page screen when editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin provides you with various eye-catching and customizable elements that will help increase your sales conversions, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonial boxes, and guarantees. In addition to customization options, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Responsive Design: Add responsive columns, guarantee boxes, content section dividers, e.g. which will display great on different screens.
- Add Animation To Your Pages: Thrive Content Builder’s Event Manager feature lets you insert animated page elements, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages – Landing Page Templates
Landing page sets are web page templates that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language to take your visitors from signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages plugin provides you with conversion-optimized page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time building web pages for your WordPress web site
- 100% conversion-optimized pages
- No technical skills required
- Works with all themes
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, conversion optimized landing page templates and fully customizable …
(Landing page sets that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language)
There are currently over 30 templates available, with more templates planned for release. In addition to the templates that are currently available, expect to see new templates in the future for email lead generation, sales pages, lesson pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Completely Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template
Normally, in order 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 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 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 great-looking pre-designed page templates that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that allows you to change or customize anything on your page templates …
The landing page template sets included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Change text in all buttons, bullet points, headlines, etc.
- Remove text, images or any other component of your landing page
- Change the background image or colors
- Change the color of links, text, buttons, etc.
- Choose your own fonts
- Select your own images and graphics
- Edit the size of the content area
- Change the order of elements on your pages
- Translate pages into different languages
- Add custom content in your pages
- Start with a blank web page and create your own templates, or even build a custom landing pages library.
(Change and edit anything on your page templates)
Transform Your Website Into A Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox
The Thrive plugin combo includes Thrive Lightbox, which lets you add fully customizable two-step opt-in forms and events to your pages …
(Add lead capture forms and animated elements to your web pages with Thrive Lightbox)
Thrive Lighbox Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process helps increase your conversion rates. Visitors click on a button or image, and then they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Opt-in forms help improve your conversion rates.)
Thrive Lightbox Event Manager
An “event” consists of a trigger and an action. You can make opt-in forms appear when your visitor clicks or hovers over a button or an image, or when someone scrolls down to 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 effects (e.g. zoom in from the page center, slide in from right to left, rotate, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your marketing 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.
Testimonials From Customers
Here are just a few of the testimonials that users have provided for 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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“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 WordPress theme, not just with the Thrive Landing Pages plugin. You cannot use Thrive Content Builder to edit content on pages or posts that were not created using the plugin.
You can add short codes inside Thrive Content Builder or Thrive Landing Pages and they will display correctly when published.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build with Thrive Content Builder.
Support
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages provides free updates, new landing templates and upcoming features. The Thrive team is constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive plugins are very 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 Cost
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 set up the plugin on 1 web site only. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This allows you to use the plugin on all of your personal sites. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency License – This edition enables you to activate the plugin on all of your own sites and any client sites. Includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Cost = $247.00 per year.
Please Note: The cost to purchase this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The pricing shown above was current when this content was written. This may not be the actual price set by the software author when you visit the plugin website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Info
The Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages plugin developers emphatically 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 beautiful, conversion-optimized template sets that help speed up content creation, and on the other hand, you have complete control over your design process and the ability to edit everything on your page, using the plugin’s visual content editor, that allows you to work unhindered by overly complicated options.
For a demo video showing how the plugin works, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the plugin website.
Get This Plugin …
If you want to edit something, simply click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, do it, and 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 position. There are no extra 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 full details, check out the plugin here:
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