WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool into a tool that can be used to design all types of web pages – landing pages, portfolio pages, business pages, etc.
Whatever you can think of, somewhere around the world someone is probably already building it using WordPress!
In this article you will discover the simplest way to create stunning content in your WordPress site.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Editor – Is There A Smarter Option For Creating And Editing Content In WordPress?
With all the many developments that WordPress has undergone in recent years, many WordPress developers and users feel that the WordPress content editor is lagging behind other areas of improvements made to the software.
(The WordPress WYSIWYG content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional content, but adding more complex layouts can be quite challenging!)
For example, if you look at the illustration below …
To create the above boxes with text and buttons, users would need to insert short codes into the content for each of the elements they want to display on the web page …
Normally, this is not an issue … until you want to change some part of the layout (for example, move some of the content from box 3 into box 2, or change the button in a box from green to blue. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the 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, if you are creating with complex page elements, what you see in the WordPress content editor 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 instances, some people argue that users could even be better off working with the source html itself instead of the visual editor when trying to build fancy page elements …
Even though WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platform available, this makes it hard for non-technical users to fully manage their own content.
The fundamental problem with having to use HTML and shortcodes to create content in the default WordPress editor can be summarized as follows:
1) Speed – How long will it take to build a web page using the 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 back end doesn’t look even remotely similar to what you see in the front end. This means that users have to translate mentally what the content will look like when working with sophisticated layouts. Other solutions require taking a number of 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 coming along, which then impacts how quickly you can create your content, as you wait for the page to load.
Many WordPress developers have tried to come up with a range of solutions aiming to address this issue. Some of these alternative solutions range from plugins you can add to 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 content creation easier!)
Some solutions combine so many complex page-building features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these alternative solutions work, but they don’t really address the fundamental challenge of using HTML and shortcodes 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 your web pages to look ”perfect” quickly, this can become very frustrating after a while.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your content builder to work?
Now that you’ve asked this question, imagine this …
- You spot something in the content that needs correction so you, simply click on the content and start changing it. Your content has been instantly edited.
- You simply drag and drop elements on the page, and see them exactly as they will appear on the front end without having to mentally translate any HTML or shortcodes.
- You have an idea for an item of content that you would like to add, so you immediately begin typing, and your page gets built on the fly, without delays, no tab switching, and without waiting for web pages to resave and reload.
Would that not be the perfect way to build content for your WordPress website? A true WYSIWYG editor where all you have to do is click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the posts and pages?
(Imagine being able to create complex page layouts quickly 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 – Click-To-Edit Drag And Drop Content Editing Plugin For WordPress
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive WordPress click-to-edit drag and drop content editing plugin.
Thrive Content Builder is a new and incredibly easy way to set up conversion-focused pages on your WordPress website.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor with a menu that lets you drag and drop elements on your page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content editing option to WordPress)
Thrive Content Builder And Landing Pages is actually a combination of the Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages plugins combined into one, plus an additional plugin feature called Thrive Lightbox.
We will discuss each of the above plugins and how all of this functionality works together to help you easily transform and improve your web site and create awesome sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder Plugin
This plugin lets you easily add content to your web pages 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 placed your elements on your page, you can then further customize or edit them without going through multiple steps or complicated option windows …
You can also create highly attractive 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, working on content with Thrive Content Builder installed is so amazingly easy, that the developers warn that once you start using it, you’ll never look back!
To learn more about this plugin go 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 we’ve written about on this site.
To read about this plugin, go here:
Benefits
Below are just a few of the 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. Be Up And Running In Very Little Time.
Thrive Content Builder installs just like every WP plugin. Just upload a zip folder that contains the plugin files to your Plugin folder via your WordPress admin user section and activate.
Real-Time Content Building And Editing
Thrive Content Builder is is not only really simple to use, it also lets you build and add content to your web pages in real-time.
A Truly Visual Content Editor
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see as you work within the editor – fonts, elements, page layouts, etc. is exactly what you get in the front end of your site.
Some additional benefits of the plugin include the following:
- Add Stunning Web Page Layouts With Drag And Drop Ease: Create any kind of layout you can imagine with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality.
- Add Customizable Elements Without Shortcodes: With Thrive Content Builder you not only get a visually exciting click-to-edit WordPress content editor, but the plugin also includes a collection of professional web design elements that you can customizable and insert into your layouts without using shortcodes, like pricing tables, gradient boxes, testimonials, code insert boxes, etc.
- Distraction-Free Content Creation: Not having to deal with technical stuff, or wait for your new content to refresh frees up your attention and allows you to build the web pages your business needs, quickly and without having to deal with code or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you need done.
(Easily add, edit and customize page elements like testimonials, tabbed content, gradient boxes, buttons, countdown timers, etc.)
Plugin Features
Thrive Content Builder provides WordPress users many great features. Here are just a few of these:
- Built-In Content Editor Functionality Is Preserved: You have all of the built-in text editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold, paragraph centering, heading styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Multi-Style Elements Menu: The plugin adds a “drag and drop” table of elements to your post or page screen when editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin includes a range of eye-catching and customizable elements that will help you increase your conversions, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonials, and guarantees. In addition to customization options, multiple design options are also available for various elements.
- Responsive Design: Add responsive elements like column layouts, text boxes, content dividers, e.g. which will resize and display correctly on different device screens.
- Add Animation Events To Pages: The plugin’s Event Manager feature lets you create animations, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Web Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Landing Page Sets
Landing page template 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 lets you easily add conversion-optimized web pages to your site)
Thrive Landing Pages – Benefits
- Everything is hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time designing beautiful-looking pages
- 100% conversion-optimized web page templates
- No technical skills needed
- Works with all themes
Thrive Content and Page Builder not only lets you 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 …
(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 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.
Customizable Landing Page Template
Normally, in order to fully customize landing page templates, you would need to either pay a web site 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 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 beautiful pre-designed web page templates that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change or customize any aspect of the page template …
The landing page templates included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Change text in all headlines, buttons, bullet points, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other part of your landing page
- Change the background image or colour
- Change the color of buttons, links, text, etc.
- Choose your own fonts
- Use your own images and graphics
- Change the size of the content area
- Change the order of elements on the page
- Translate pages into different languages
- Add custom content in the pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own landing pages from scratch and save them as new page templates.
(Change or edit any element of the page templates)
Thrive Lightbox Plugin – Transform Your Web Site Into A Powerful Marketing Machine
The Thrive plugin package includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully editable 2-step opt-in forms and events to your website …
(Add opt-in forms and events to your pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process can increase your conversion rates. Visitors click on an image or button, and then they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Opt-in forms help increase your conversion rates.)
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 scrolls down to a certain point on the page. You can also use the Event Manager to animate attention-getting elements on your web pages, using a range of effects (e.g. zoom out, slide in from left to right, roll in, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your pages 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
Below are a few of the testimonials and comments 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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”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 Plugin – Useful Tips
Thrive Content Builder works with any theme in WordPress, not just with the Thrive Landing Pages plugin. Note, however, that you cannot use Thrive Content Builder to edit content on pages or posts that were not created with the plugin.
You can add WordPress shortcodes 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.
Product Support
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder Plugin comes with free updates, new landing pages 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 updates, and 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, thirty day, complete money-back guarantee.
This is an exciting product that just keeps 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 License Edition – This license enables you to configure the plugin on a single site. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This option enables you to set up the plugin on all of your personal web sites. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency Licensing – Use on all your sites & on all your client sites. Pricing includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Cost = $247.00 per year.
Please Note: Pricing for Thrive Content Builder depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Presently, the product is selling for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual price set by the product seller when you visit the site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
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 templates that help speed up content creation, 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, that allows you to work unhindered by overly complicated steps.
For ”how-to” videos of the plugin in action, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive plugins website.
Download This Plugin …
If you want to edit something, 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, you drag it and drop it into its new location. There are no overly complicated steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your web site and create awesome sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content, Thrive Content and Page Builder delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For more details, check out the plugin here:
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