WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool to a tool being used to create all kinds of websites.
Whatever you can think of, someone is bound to be already building it using WordPress!
This article will help you discover the ultimate drag and drop front end content editor for WordPress.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Does The Default WordPress Editor Still Meet All Of Your Web Design Needs?
Using the default WordPress WYSIWYG editor to create or edit complex page layouts can sometimes be quite challenging.
(The WordPress content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing “linear” text and media, but adding complex content elements can be challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the content shown below …
To create the above in a page would require inserting something that looks like this into your default WordPress editor …
Generally, this is not really an issue … until you decide to change your layout (for example, move part of the content from box 3 into box 2, or change the background colour in a box from green to dark red. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code.
The WordPress visual content editor is supposed to provide users with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG content editor, but as you can see, when creating with more complex layouts, often what you see 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 you would probably be better off working directly inside the text editor tab instead of the WordPress WYSIWYG editor when trying to build fancy page elements …
Even though WordPress is extremely easy to use, this makes it hard for non-technical users to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental challenge with having to use HTML and shortcodes to create content with WordPress can be summarized as follows:
1) Speed – How long will it take to create 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 image, 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 mentally translate what the content will look like when working with complex layouts. Other solutions require a number of 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 coming along, which then impacts how fast you can create your content, as you wait for the new content to reload.
A number of WordPress web developers have come up with different solutions to try to address this issue. Some of these alternative solutions range from stand alone plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to themes that offer built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make content creation easier!)
Some solutions combine so many complex page design features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these alternative editors work fine, but they don’t really address the fundamental issue of using HTML and shortcodes 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 your web content to look “just right” quickly, this can become very frustrating after a while.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your page builder to behave?
Now that you’ve asked this question, imagine this …
- You look at your content and if you spot something that needs fixing, just click on the content and start typing. Your content is then instantly changed.
- You just drag and drop elements around 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 some content you would like to create, so you simply begin typing, and your page gets built as you go, without delays, without switching of tab browsers, and without waiting for new web pages to reload.
Would this not be the ideal way to build content for your WordPress website? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the pages and posts?
(Imagine being able to create complex web pages ”on the fly” 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 And Landing Pages
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a unique plugin for WordPress that gives you complete control over every aspect of your content pages with true click-to-edit and drag and drop simplicity.
Thrive Content Builder is a new and incredibly easy way to speed up the process of adding great content to WordPress web sites.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor and an item menu that lets you select, then drag and drop elements on your page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual editor to WordPress)
Thrive Content And Page Builder 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 review each of the above plugins and how these exciting features work seamlessly together to help you transform and improve your web presence and create amazing marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder Plugin
Thrive Content Builder lets you easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Every element of your web page can be configured by dragging and dropping things around the page and then clicking to edit them …
Once you have positioned elements on the page, you can continue to further edit or customize them without going through additional steps or switching tabs …
You can also build stunning landing pages that can also be easily customized …
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages 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 plugin installed is so effortlessly easy, that the developers guarantee that once you start using it, you’ll never look back!
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 amazing plugin that we have previously written about on this site.
To read more about this plugin, go here:
Plugin Benefits
Below are just some of the many benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up your page design and content creation process:
Fast And Simple To Install And Set Up. Ready To Start Using In Very Little Time.
Thrive Content Builder is very easy to install. Just upload a zip folder that contains the plugin files to your Plugin folder via your administrator area and activate.
Edit & Create Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is is not only very simple to use, it also lets you create, edit and add content to your web pages in real-time.
A Truly Visual Editor
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see as you work within the content editor – typefaces, visual elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get in the front end of your site.
Additional plugin benefits include:
- Attractive Page Layouts With Drag & Drop Ease: Create any kind of layout you can imagine with intuitive drag and drop functionality.
- Add Customizable Elements Without Short Codes: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get an amazing drag and drop content editor, but the plugin also includes a collection of design elements that you can insert into your content layouts without using short codes, for e.g.: content toggle, table of contents builder, section dividers, custom HTML and CSS, etc.
- More Enjoyable Content Creation: Not having to constantly switch tabs as you edit content and then wait for the page to refresh frees up your attention and allows you to be more focused while you work or click through multiple steps to get what you want done.
(Thrive Content Builder lets you easily insert, edit and customize web page elements like testimonial boxes, pricing tables, content reveal feature, call to action buttons, HTML code insert boxes, etc.)
Features
Thrive Content Builder provides many features to site owners. Here are just some of those features:
- All Editor Functionality Is Still Available: You have all of the regular WordPress editing options that you are used to (e.g. underlines, paragraph centering, heading styles, 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 comes with a range of 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 Web Element Design: Add mobile-friendly elements like columns, boxes, content dividers, e.g. which will adjust to display correctly on different device screens.
- Add Animation To Your Web Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you create animations, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages – Landing Page Sets
Landing page sets are web 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 lets you add conversion-optimized pages to your website)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time building and customizing pages for your site
- 100% conversion-optimized landing pages
- No web coding skills required
- Works with any WordPress theme
Thrive Content Builder not only lets you create beautiful content in your WordPress posts and pages, but you can also choose from dozens of beautifully 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 over thirty templates available, with more templates planned for release. In addition to the existing templates, the developers plan to release new templates for email lead generation, sales pages, course pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template
Normally, to be able to have a fully customizable landing page template, you would need to either pay 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 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 building conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you stunning pre-built web pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that allows you to change and edit any element of your page templates …
The landing page template sets included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Edit text in any headline, bullet point, button, etc.
- Remove text, images or any other component of the landing page
- Change the background image or colour
- Edit the color of links, text, buttons, etc.
- Choose your own fonts
- Select your own images and graphics
- Modify content area size
- Change the order of web page elements
- Translate pages into a different language
- Add custom content anywhere inside any of the pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own web pages from scratch and save them as new page templates.
(Change or customize any element of your page templates)
Thrive Lightbox – Transform Your WordPress Site Into A Powerful Marketing Machine
The Thrive plugin combo includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully customizable two-step opt-in forms and events to your content pages …
(Add opt-in forms and animated objects to your sales pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process helps to increase your conversion rates. Visitors click on an image or button, and then they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Capture more leads and subscribers with a 2-step opt-in process)
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 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, slide in from bottom to top, roll in, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your WordPress web site with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
A lightbox and event is created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over the events, triggers and design.
Testimonials
Here are a few of the testimonials that plugin users have provided for 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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”Your stuff is beautifully designed, fast and has great options for marketers that you just don’t see with other themes. Great, great job! Absolutely love Thrive! David Coleman”
Thrive Content Builder – 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 on existing pages or posts that were not created with the plugin installed.
You can add short codes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will be displayed correctly when published.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build using Thrive Content Builder.
Plugin Support
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages Plugin provides 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 well-supported, and users get unlimited upgrades, and 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, 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 – This lets you run the plugin on a single web site. It includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This enables you to run the plugin on all of your personal websites. Price includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency License – This allows you to install the plugin on all of your own sites and any client web sites. Includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Cost = $247.00 per year.
Please Note: The cost to purchase the Thrive Content Builder software depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Presently, the product is being retailed for the prices shown above. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the software seller when you visit the product website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Information
The developers of the Thrive Content and Landing Page Builder plugin 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 web page elements and beautiful, conversion-optimized templates that help speed up content design, and on the other hand, you also have complete control over the design process and the freedom to edit everything on your web page, using the plugin’s visual content editor, which allows you to see how the content you are working on will look after being published.
For a demo video of the plugin, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive Content Builder website.
Download The Plugin …
If you want to edit something, you just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you can see the change happen instantly. If you want to move something, just drag it and drop it into its new position. There are no additional steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your web site and create awesome sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content, this plugin delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For more details, visit the plugin website here:
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