WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging application to a tool being used to create all types of sites.
Whatever you can think of, someone is bound to be already building it with WordPress!
In this article you will discover the fastest way to build stunning content in WordPress.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Is The Default WordPress WYSIWYG Editor Meeting All Of Your Content Creation Needs?
Using the built-in WordPress visual content editor to create or edit complex web site pages can sometimes be quite difficult.
(The built-in WordPress WYSIWYG content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing “linear” text and media, but adding complex page elements can be challenging!)
For example, if you look at the image below …
To add the above to your content would require typing something like this in your default WordPress visual editor …
Generally, this is not really an issue … until you need to reconfigure the layout (for example, move part of the content from box 1 into box 2, or replace the button in box 2 from red to maroon. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the editor.
The WordPress visual editor is supposed to provide users with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor, but as you can see, if you are working with complex page elements, what you see is not the same as what you are getting when your web page is published …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some situations, some people argue that users may even be better off working directly inside the text editor tab instead of the WordPress visual editor when trying to create fancy page elements …
Even though WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platform available, this makes it difficult for WordPress users without knowledge of HTML or CSS to fully manage their own content.
The fundamental challenge of having to use HTML and shortcodes to create content in WordPress can be summarized by asking the following questions:
1) Speed – How long will it take to create a web page using this 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, what you see in the editor looks nothing 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 sophisticated layouts. Other solutions require taking multiple steps before you can start configuring your page layout, or endlessly switching tabs and performing updates to see how your content is coming along, which interrupts the creative process, as you wait for the updated content to refresh.
Many WordPress web developers have come up with various solutions with the aim of making the visual editor more intuitive. Some of these range from WP plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to WordPress themes that include 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-building features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these alternative solutions work, but they fail to address the fundamental challenge of using shortcodes and HTML as described earlier. Creating and adding non-linear content 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 to create or edit complex page layouts quickly, this can start to become very frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your content editor to function?
Now, visualize this …
- You spot something in your content that needs changing so you, just click on the content and start changing it. Your content is instantly changed.
- You just drag and drop items on the page, and the page looks exactly as it will display on the front end without having to mentally visualize any shortcodes or HTML.
- You have an idea for an item of content that you’d like to create, so you just start typing, and your web page gets built as you go, without delays, without switching of tab browsers, and no waiting for pages to refresh and reload.
Would that 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 ”on the fly” for your web content without technical constraints!)
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 – The Simplest, Most Intuitive WYSIWYG Content Editor For WordPress Sites
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive WordPress click-to-edit drag and drop content creation plugin.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin is a new and exciting way to speed up the process of creating amazing content on your WordPress website.
Once installed, Thrive Content Builder adds a visual content editor and an item menu that lets you click, then drag and drop elements on your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual content editor to WordPress)
The Thrive Content And Page Builder 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’ll address all of the above plugins and how all of this exciting functionality works together to help you transform and improve your web presence and create awesome sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder – Click-To-Edit Drag And Drop Content Builder Plugin For WordPress
You can easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Everything on your web page can be built with “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” ease …
Once elements have been positioned on a page, you can then easily edit or customize these without having to go through multiple steps or opening more option screens …
The built-in Landing Pages editor also lets you work inside highly attractive landing pages and easily edit these …
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 plugin installed is so amazingly simple, that the developers guarantee that once you start using it, you’ll never look back!
Learn more here: Thrive Content Builder
The integrated Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder plugin was created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another excellent plugin for WordPress that we have previously reviewed on this site.
Go here to read about the plugin:
Benefits Of Using Thrive Landing Pages And Content Builder
Below we have listed just some of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up content creation:
Ready To Use In Minutes
Thrive Content Builder installs just like every plugin. Just upload the plugin file to your Plugins folder via your administrator section and activate.
Edit And Build Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is is not only really simple and intuitive to use, it also lets you create content in real-time.
A Truly Visual Content Builder
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see on the “backend” as you work within the content editor – typefaces, visual elements, page layouts, etc. is exactly what your visitors will see on the front end of your site.
Additional benefits include:
- Attractive Layouts With Drag & Drop Ease: Create any kind of layout you can imagine with drag and drop ease.
- Customizable Elements Included: With Thrive Content Builder you not only get a drag and drop WordPress content builder, but the plugin also includes a collection of functional and attractive design elements that you can insert into your layouts without using short codes, like columns, star ratings for review pages, call to action buttons, code insert boxes, etc.
- More Enjoyable Content Creation: Not having to constantly switch tabs as you edit content and then wait for the updates to reload frees up your attention and allows you to build the pages your business needs, quickly and without having to deal with code or click through multiple steps to get what you want done.
(Add, edit and customize web page elements like testimonials, columns, text boxes, dividers, code insert boxes, etc.)
Features
Thrive Content Builder provides many unique features to site owners. Here are just some:
- Built-In WordPress Editor Functionality Is Still Available: You have all of the regular WordPress editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold, centering text, font sizes, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements Menu: The plugin adds a “drag and drop” table of elements to your post or page screen for editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin includes a range of attention-grabbing and customizable elements that will help increase your sales conversions, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonial boxes, and guarantees. In addition to being customizable, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Responsive Element Design: Add responsive columns, text boxes, dividers, e.g. which will display great on all different kinds of devices.
- Add Animation To Your Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you create animation in images, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Web Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Landing Page Templates
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 signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages plugin gives you conversion-optimized page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time and money creating gorgeous-looking web pages
- 100% conversion-optimized web pages
- No coding skills needed
- Works with all WordPress themes
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 professionally designed, web 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 scheduled for future release. In addition to the existing templates, expect to see new templates in the future for email lead generation, sales pages, training pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template Sets
Typically, in order to fully customize landing page templates, you would need to either hire a web 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 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 great-looking pre-designed pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that allows you to change and customize anything on your page templates …
With the landing page template sets included with this plugin, you are able to:
- Edit text in any headline, button, bullet point, etc.
- Remove text, images or any other part of your landing page
- Change the background image and background colours
- Change the color of links, text, buttons, etc.
- Select your own fonts
- Use your own images and graphics
- Edit content area size
- Change the order of elements on the page
- Translate pages into different languages
- Add custom content anywhere in your pages
- Start with a blank web page and create your own page templates, or even build a custom landing page templates library.
(Change and customize anything on your page templates)
Transform Your WordPress Website Into A Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox
The Thrive package includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully configurable two-step opt-in forms and events to your web site …
(Add lead capture forms and animation to your sales 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 an image or button, and then they are presented with your opt-in form …
(When visitors click on the button, they are presented with an opt-in form)
Event Manager
An “event” consists of a trigger and an action. You can make an opt-in form appear when when visitors click or hover 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 web pages, using various animation effects (e.g. zoom out, slide in from top to bottom, rotate, 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 your events, triggers and design.
Testimonials
Below are just a few of the testimonials that plugin users have written about the Thrive Content Builder plugin:
”Wow! This is just getting better & better. This plugin is making my websites look so professional. Keep up the great work and thank you for the new features. Ladonna Ragalin”
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“I’m blown away by the plugin. Keep up the incredible, WordPress changing work, guys! Dean Phillips”
Useful 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 on existing pages or posts that were not created with the plugin installed.
You can add shortcodes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will be displayed correctly on the front end.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content built with Thrive Content Builder.
Support
Thrive Content and Page Builder provides free updates, new landing pages and upcoming features. The Thrive team is constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive software is very well-supported, and users get unlimited software upgrades, and one year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, thirty day, full refund guarantee.
This is an exciting product that just keeps getting better.
Product 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 activate the plugin on one site only. Cost includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Edition – This option allows you to set up the plugin on all of your personal sites. Price includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency License – Use on your domains & on client web sites. Price includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Please Note: Current pricing for the Thrive Content Builder software depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Presently, the software sells for the prices shown above. This may or may not be the actual price set by the plugin seller 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 the latest pricing:
Additional Info
The Thrive Landing Pages and Content 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 the time-saving benefits of ready-made web page elements and beautiful, conversion-optimized template sets that help speed up the content creation process, and on the other hand, you also have 100% control over the design process and the freedom to edit and customize anything and everything on your web page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, that allows you to see exactly how the content you are working on will display on the “front end” after publishing.
For ”how-to” videos of the plugin in action, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive plugins website.
Download The Plugin …
If you want to edit something, simply 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 simply drag it and drop it into its new location. There are no unnecessary steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your site and create amazing marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content, this plugin delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
To learn more, visit the plugin website:
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