WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool to a tool being used to create all kinds of web sites.
Whatever you can imagine, somewhere around the world someone is most likely already building it with WordPress!
In this article you will discover how to create stunning content faster with drag & drop ease in WordPress websites.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Visual Editor – Is There An Easier Option For Creating Content Layouts In WordPress?
Using the built-in WordPress WYSIWYG editor to create or edit complex page elements can be quite difficult, especially for non-technical WordPress users.
(The WordPress WYSIWYG editor is great for adding, formatting and editing “linear” content, but adding more complex page elements can be quite challenging!)
For example, if you look at the image below …
To create the above layout, you would have to add shortcodes to the content for every single element you want to display …
Typically, this is not really an issue … until you decide to change something in your layout (for example, move some of the content from box 1 into box 2, or change the button in a box from bright red to another colour. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the editor.
The WordPress visual editor is supposed to give users an easy-to-use WYSIWYG content editor, but as you can see, when creating with complex layouts, often what you see in the WordPress content editor 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 situations, some people argue that users could even be better off working inside the WordPress html editor tab instead of the WordPress visual editor when trying to create something other than simple page elements …
Even though WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platform available, this makes it difficult for non-technical users to fully manage their own content.
The fundamental issue about using shortcodes and HTML to create content in WordPress can be summarized as follows:
1) Speed – How long will it take to create a page using the editor?
2) Abstraction – How closely does the content in the editor resemble the “front end” content when you are creating or editing a page?
As you can see from the above, what you see when working in the back end looks nothing like what you see in the front end. This means that you need to mentally translate what your content will look like when working with complex layouts. Other solutions require taking multiple steps before you can begin configuring your page layout, or endlessly going back and forth between tabs and performing updates to see how your content is progressing, which then affects how fast you can create your content, as you wait for pages to load.
Many WordPress developers have come up with a range of solutions with the aim of addressing this issue. Some of these range from plugins you can install on your site that add new functionality to the editor, to WordPress themes that come with built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make creating complex layouts easier!)
Some solutions end up combining so many page-building features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end content editors …
Many of these solutions work fine, but they don’t address the fundamental issue of using shortcodes and HTML as described earlier. Creating and adding sophisticated content elements 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 your content to look “just right” quickly, this can become really frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like to build and edit your web pages?
Now that you’ve asked this question, imagine this …
- You look at your content and if you spot something that needs correction, just click on the content and start writing. Your content has been instantly edited.
- You simply drag and drop items around the page, and the page looks exactly as it will display on the front end without having to mentally translate any code.
- You have an idea for a specific item of content that you would like to create, so you immediately begin typing, and you build your page on the fly, without delays, without switching tabs, and without waiting for pages to refresh and reload.
Would this not be the ideal way to create content for your site? A true visual content builder where all you have to do is click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the pages and posts?
(Imagine being able to create complex web page layouts in real-time 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 Plugin – Create Stunning Content Faster With Drag & Drop Ease In WordPress Sites
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a unique plugin for WordPress that gives you complete control over every aspect of your web page 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 adding great content to WordPress sites.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor with a menu that lets you select, then drag and drop design elements to your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual content editing option to WordPress)
Thrive Landing Pages And Content 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.
We’ll discuss all of the above and how all of this exciting functionality works together to help you easily transform and improve your website and create awesome marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder – WordPress Plugin
This plugin lets you easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Every aspect of your web page can be designed with “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” ease …
Once you have positioned elements on a page, you can continue to further edit or customize them without going through additional steps or switching screens …
The built-in Landing Pages editor also lets you create beautiful landing pages that can also be easily edited …
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 with the Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder plugin installed is so amazingly simple, that the developers warn that you will never look back once you start using it
Go here to learn more about this plugin: Thrive Content Builder
The integrated Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages plugin was created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another amazing plugin for WordPress we’ve previously reviewed on this site.
Go here to read about the plugin:
Plugin Benefits
Below are just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up the process of designing pages and creating content for your site:
Fast And Easy To Install And Set Up. Be Up And Running In Very Little Time.
Thrive Content Builder is quite easy to install. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your WordPress dashboard and activate.
Real-Time Content Content Editing
Thrive Content Builder is simple to use and lets you create and edit content in real-time.
A Truly Visual Content Editor
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see on the “back-end” as you work within the editor – fonts, elements, page layouts, etc. is exactly what your visitors will see on the front end of your site.
Additional benefits include the following:
- Add Stunning 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 click-to-edit content builder, but the plugin also includes a very decent collection of customizable design elements that you can insert into your web pages without using short codes, for e.g.: columns, content reveal feature, section dividers, code insert boxes, etc.
- Ideal For Non-Technical Users: Not having to constantly switch tabs as you tweak your content and then wait for your content to reload frees up your attention and allows you to build the content 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 add, edit and customize web page elements like testimonials, columns, star ratings for review pages, call to action buttons, HTML code insert boxes, etc.)
Plugin Features
Thrive Content Builder offers a number of powerful features to site owners. Here are just a few of these:
- All Editor Functionality Is Still Available: You have all of the built-in text editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold, paragraph formatting, font styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” table of elements available on your post or page screen for creating and editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin provides you with various 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 Element Design: Add responsive columns, boxes, section dividers, e.g. which will display correctly on different screens.
- Add Animation Events To Your Pages: Thrive Content Builder’s Event Manager feature lets you create animations, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your 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 from signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages plugin gives you access to conversion-optimized page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Everything is hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time and money building and customizing web pages for your WordPress site
- 100% conversion-optimized landing page templates
- No tech skills required
- Works with any theme
Thrive Content and Landing Page Builder not only can be used to 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 …
(Thrive Landing Pages provides sets of templates that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language)
There are 30+ templates available, with more templates being worked on. In addition to the templates shown above, the developers plan to release new templates for email lead generation, sales pages, training pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable Landing Page Template
Normally, to be able to fully customize a landing page template, you would need to either hire a web designer to do the work, or learn web coding languages like HTML and CSS 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 building 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 allows you to change and customize any element of the page …
With the landing page templates included with this plugin, you are able to:
- Modify text in all headlines, buttons, bullet points, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other component of the landing page
- Replace the background image or background colors
- Change the color of links, text, buttons, etc.
- Use your own fonts
- Select your own images
- Change the size of the content area
- Rearrange the order of elements on your pages
- Translate pages into a different language
- Add custom content inside the pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own web pages from scratch and save them as new web page templates.
(Change or edit anything on the page templates)
Transform Your Web Site Into A Powerful Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox
The Thrive plugin combo includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully configurable 2-step opt-in forms and animated objects to your content pages …
(Add lead capture forms and animation to your sales pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process can help improve your conversion rates. Visitors click on a button or image, and then 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 an opt-in form 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 attention-getting elements on your page, using a range of effects (e.g. zoom out, slide in from top to bottom, roll out, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your marketing pages with Thrive Lightbox)
A lightbox and event is created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over the events, triggers and design.
User Testimonials
Here are a couple of the testimonials plugin users have written about Thrive Content Builder:
“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”
Plugin 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 that was not created with the plugin.
You can add short codes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will display correctly on your website.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build with Thrive Content Builder.
Thrive Content Builder Support
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages provides free updates, new landing pages and upcoming features. The plugin developers are constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive products are really well-supported, and users get lifetime software upgrades, plus one year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, thirty day, full money-back 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 Licensing – This lets you activate the plugin on a single website. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This allows you to configure the plugin on unlimited sites that you personally own. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency Licensing – This allows you to use the plugin on all of your own sites and all client sites. It includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Cost = $247.00 per year.
Note: The price of this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The price shown above was current at the time this article was written. This may not be the actual pricing set by the plugin seller when you visit the website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest price here:
Additional Info
The developers of the Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder plugin emphatically 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 conversion-optimized template sets that help to make designing your pages faster, and on the other hand, you have 100% control over your design process and the freedom to change anything and everything on your page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, which lets you see how the content you are working on will appear to visitors after publishing.
For ”how-to” videos of the plugin, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive Content Builder website.
Get This Plugin …
If you want to edit something, simply 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, you 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 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 complete details, check out the plugin here:
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