WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool to a tool that can be used to design all types of pages – landing pages, portfolio pages, business pages, etc.
Whatever you can think of, somewhere around the world someone is bound to be already building it with WordPress!
In this article you will discover the simplest, most intuitive visual content editor for WordPress sites.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Is The Default WordPress Visual Content Editor Meeting All Of Your Page Design Needs?
With all the many improvements that the WordPress platform has gone through in recent years, many WordPress developers feel that using the default WordPress editor to build or edit complex page elements can be quite difficult.
(The WordPress WYSIWYG content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional text and images, but adding more complex layouts can be challenging!)
For example, if you look at the screenshot below …
To create the above boxes with text and buttons, you would need to add short codes to your content for each of the elements you want to display on your page …
Normally, this is not an issue … until you choose to change the layout (for example, move some of the content from box 3 into box 2, or replace the button in a box from bright red to light green. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the content editor.
The WordPress visual editor is supposed to be an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, but as you can see, when creating with more complex content elements, often what you see on your editor screen is not really what you get …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some cases, users would probably be better off working directly inside the WordPress html editor tab instead of the WYSIWYG editor when trying to create fancy page elements …
Even though WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platform available, this makes it hard for non-technical website owners to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental challenge about having to use HTML and shortcodes to create content with WordPress can be summarized as follows:
1) Speed – How long does it take to create a page using this 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 image, what you see in the editor does not look anything like what you see in the front end. This means that you need to abstract what your 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 tabs and performing tweaks and updates to see how your content is coming along, which can interrupt the creative process, as you wait for the content to reload.
Many WordPress developers have come up with a range of solutions to address this issue. Some of these solutions range from WordPress plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to WP themes that come with built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make content creation easier!)
Some solutions end up including so many complex page-building features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these alternative editors work, but they don’t really address the fundamental issue of using HTML and shortcodes as described earlier. 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 page content quickly, this can start to become very frustrating after a while.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like to build and edit your web content?
Now that you’ve asked this question, visualize the following …
- You look at your content and if you spot something that needs fixing, simply click on the content and start changing it. Your content has been instantly edited.
- You just drag and drop items on the page, and see them exactly as they will appear on the front end without having to mentally visualize HTML or shortcodes.
- You have an idea for an item of content you would like to add, so you immediately start typing, and your web page gets built as you go, with no delays, without switching tabs, and no waiting for new content to resave and reload.
Would that not be the perfect way to build content for your web site? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the page?
(Imagine being able to create complex 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 Landing Pages And Content Builder
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive click-to-edit drag-and-drop content and landing page creation tool for WordPress.
Thrive Content Builder provides you with a new and exciting way to speed up the process of creating amazing content on your WordPress website.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor with a menu that lets you select, then drag and drop design elements on your page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual content editing option to your WordPress site)
Thrive Content Builder And Landing Pages 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 will address each of the above and how these exciting features work together to help you easily transform and improve your web site and create amazing sales pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder – WordPress Click-To-Edit Drag And Drop Content Creation Tool
This plugin lets you easily add content to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Every aspect of your web page can be built using “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” …
Once elements have been added to a page, you can then easily customize these without having to go through multiple steps or switching screens …
You can also work inside beautiful landing pages that can also be easily edited …
Thrive Landing Pages and 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 effortlessly easy, that the developers warn that you’ll never look back once you start using it
To learn more about this plugin go here: Thrive Content Builder
Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages were created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another fantastic plugin we’ve previously written about on this site.
To read about this plugin, see this post:
Benefits Of Using Thrive Landing Pages And Content Builder Plugin
Here we have listed just a few of the benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up content creation:
Fast And Simple To Install And Implement. Be Up And Running In Minutes.
Thrive Content Builder is really easy to install. Just upload it to your Plugins folder via your WP administrator login and activate.
Build And Edit Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is very simple to use and lets you build 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, visual elements, page layouts, etc. is exactly what you get on the front end of your site.
Some additional plugin benefits include the following:
- Add Eye-Catching Page Layouts With Drag And Drop Ease: Create any layout you can imagine with intuitive drag and drop functionality.
- Add Design Elements Without Shortcodes: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get an amazing click-to-edit content builder, but the plugin also includes a collection of customizable design elements that you can customizable and use on your layouts without using short codes, like tabbed content, table of contents builder, call to action buttons, credit card icons, etc.
- Ideal For Non-Technical Users: Not having to wait for for your updated content to refresh frees up your attention and allows you to be more focused while you work or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you need done.
(Create, edit and customize page elements like testimonial boxes, content toggle, table of contents builder, call to action buttons, responsive Google map embeds, etc.)
Plugin Features
Thrive Content Builder offers many powerful features to web site owners. Here are just a few of these:
- Built-In Editor Functionality Is Preserved: You have all of the regular WordPress editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold formatting, paragraph formatting, font styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Multi-Style Elements Menu: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” list of multi-style elements available on your post or page screen when creating and editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin comes with various eye-catching and customizable elements that will help you increase your sales conversions, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonials, and guarantees. In addition to customization options, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Mobile-Friendly Design: Add responsive elements like column layouts, text boxes, content section dividers, e.g. which will display correctly on all different kinds of devices.
- Add Animation Events To Web Pages: Thrive Content Builder’s Event Manager feature lets you insert animation in images, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Landing Page Templates
Landing page template sets are web templates that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language to take your visitors from initial 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
- 100% conversion-optimized page templates
- No technical skills required
- Works with any WordPress theme
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 beautifully designed, conversion optimized landing page templates and fully customizable …
(Landing page template sets that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language)
There are over 30 templates available, with more templates being worked on. In addition to the available templates, expect to see new templates in the future for email lead generation, sales pages, lesson pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Customizable Landing Page Template Sets
Typically, in order to fully customize a landing page template, you would need to either pay a web developer 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 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 stunning pre-built web pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change and customize any aspect of the page template …
The landing page template sets included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Edit text in all bullet points, buttons, headlines, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other component of the landing page
- Change the background image or background colors
- Change the color of links, buttons, text, etc.
- Use your own fonts
- Select your own images and graphics
- Change content area size
- Change the order of page elements
- Translate everything on the page into different languages
- Add custom content anywhere in any of the pages
- Start with a blank web page and create your own page templates, or even build a custom landing page templates library.
(Change and edit any aspect of your page)
Thrive Lightbox – Transform Your Website Into A Powerful Marketing Machine
The Thrive plugin package also includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully configurable 2-step opt-in forms and animated objects to your site …
(Add opt-in forms and animation to your WordPress pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A 2-step opt-in process helps improve your conversion rates. When visitors click on an image or button they are presented with your opt-in form …
(two-step opt-in forms help to increase your conversion rates.)
Thrive Lightbox Event Manager
An “event” consists of a trigger and an action. You can make opt-in forms 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 attention-getting elements on your page, using various animation effects (e.g. zoom in from the page center, slide in from bottom to top, roll out, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your WordPress site with Thrive Lightbox)
A lightbox and event is created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over events, triggers and design.
User Feedback
Here are a few of the testimonials and comments that customers have written about 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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“I’m blown away by the plugin. Keep up the incredible, WordPress changing work, guys! Dean Phillips”
Thrive Content Builder – Tips
Thrive Content Builder works with any theme in WordPress, not just with Thrive Landing Pages. Note, however, that you cannot use Thrive Content Builder to edit content that was not created using the plugin.
You can add shortcodes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will display correctly on your website.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build using Thrive Content Builder.
Support
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder Plugin comes with free updates, new landing pages and upcoming features. The plugin developers are constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive plugins are well-supported, and users get unlimited software upgrades, 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.
Plugin Price
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 set up the plugin on 1 web site only. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Licensing – This license allows you to use the plugin on unlimited sites that you own. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency License Edition – Use on your domains and on client sites. Includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Note: Pricing details of this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Currently, the product sells for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual price charged by the product 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 current pricing information here:
Additional Info
The developers of the Thrive Content and Page 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 templates that help to make designing your content faster, and on the other hand, you also have 100% control over your design process and the freedom to change and customize everything on your web page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, that allows you to get things done without having to go through multiple steps.
For ”how-to” videos of the plugin in action, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive 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, just drag it and drop it into its new position. There are no unnecessary steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your site and create awesome sales pages and engaging content, this plugin delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For complete details, check out the plugin here:
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