WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging application to a tool being used to create all kinds of websites.
Whatever you can imagine, someone is most likely already building it with WordPress!
This article will help you discover the simplest and easiest to use WYSIWYG editor for your WordPress site.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Editor – Is There A Simpler Tool To Create Web Pages In WordPress?
With all the many developments that the WordPress platform has gone through in recent years, many WordPress developers and users believe that using the WordPress visual content editor to build or edit complex layouts can be difficult.
(The default WordPress visual content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing “linear” text and images, but adding more complex content elements can be quite challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the layout shown below …
To create the above layout, you would have to insert short codes into your content for each of the page elements you want to add to your page …
Generally, this is not really an issue … until you want to reconfigure the layout (for example, move some of the content from box 1 into box 2, or replace the background color inside box 2 from red to light green. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code.
The WordPress visual content editor is supposed to give users an easy-to-use WYSIWYG content editor, but as you can see, when creating with complex content elements, 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 situations, users could even be better off working directly with the source html itself instead of the visual editor when trying to build complex page elements …
Even though WordPress is very user-friendly, this makes it hard for non-technical website owners to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental issue of using shortcodes and HTML to create content in the default WordPress visual editor can be summarized as follows:
1) Speed – How long does it take to build 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 screenshot, 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 complex layouts. Other solutions require taking several steps before you can start configuring your page layout, or endlessly going back and forth between browser tabs and performing tweaks and updates to see how your content is coming along, which then impacts how quickly you can create your content, as you wait for your page to reload.
A number of WordPress web developers have tried to come up with various solutions to try to address this issue. These solutions range from WordPress plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to 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 including so many page-building features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these alternative solutions work fine, but they still don’t 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 your web pages to look ”perfect” quickly, this can become quite frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your content builder to work?
Now, visualize the following …
- You see something in the content that needs fixing so you, simply click on the content and start editing it. Your content has been instantly changed.
- You can drag and drop items around the page, and see them exactly as they will appear on the front end without having to mentally visualize code.
- You have an idea for a specific piece of content you’d like to add, so you just begin typing, and your page gets built as you go, without delays, without tab switching, and without having to wait for new content to refresh.
Would this not be the perfect way to create content for your site? A true visual content editor where all you have to do is click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the pages?
(Imagine being able to create complex web pages 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 – The Simplest And Easiest To Use WYSIWYG Content Builder For WordPress Sites
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive click-to-edit drag-and-drop content and page creation tool for WordPress.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin is a new and exciting way to set up conversion-focused pages on any WordPress site.
Once installed, Thrive Content Builder adds a visual content editor and a menu that lets you drag and drop design elements on your page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual content editing option to WordPress)
The Thrive Content Builder And Landing Pages plugin 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.
Let’s examine each of the above and how all of this functionality works seamlessly together to help you transform and improve your web site and create awesome sales pages and content.
Thrive Content Builder Plugin
Thrive Content Builder lets you easily add complex design layouts to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Every element of your page can be built with “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” ease …
Once elements have been added to a page, you can then continue to customize them without going through multiple steps or switching screens …
The built-in Landing Pages editor also lets you build stunning landing pages that can just as easily be edited or customized …
Thrive Content and Page Builder is simple, easy to use, and ideal for all WordPress users at all levels. In fact, designing pages with the Thrive Content and Landing Page Builder plugin installed is so amazingly simple, that the developers guarantee that once you start using it, it’ll ruin the experience of using all other content editors forever, and you’ll never look back!
Go here to learn more: Thrive Content Builder
The integrated Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages plugin was created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another great plugin we’ve previously reviewed on this site.
For more information about using the plugin, go here:
Plugin Benefits
Here are just some of the many benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up your page design and content creation process:
Fast And Simple To Install And Use. Be Up And Running In Minutes.
Thrive Content Builder is very easy to install. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your admin user area and activate.
Real-Time Content Content Editing
Thrive Content Builder is simple and intuitive to use and lets you add content to your pages 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, layouts, etc. is exactly what your visitors will see in the front end of your site.
Additional benefits and advantages include the following:
- Beautiful Web Page Layouts With Drag & Drop Ease: Create any kind of layout you can imagine with intuitive drag and drop functionality.
- Add Design Elements Without Using Shortcodes: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get an amazing click-to-edit WordPress content editor, but the plugin also includes a jaw-dropping collection of professional design elements that you can insert into your pages without using shortcodes, for e.g.: pricing tables, content reveal feature, testimonials, HTML code insert boxes, etc.
- More Enjoyable Content Creation: Not having to deal with technical stuff, or having to wait for your content to reload frees up your attention and allows you to be more focused while you build content or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you need done.
(Insert, edit and customize web page elements like testimonial boxes, content toggle, content reveal feature, page section dividers, credit card icons, etc.)
Thrive Content Builder Features
Thrive Content Builder provides many features to website owners. Below we have listed just a few:
- Regular WordPress Content 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 Elements Menu: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” list of elements available on your post or page screen when creating or editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin includes various eye-catching and customizable elements that will help you increase your sales conversions, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonial boxes, and guarantees. In addition to customization options, multiple design options are also available for various elements.
- Responsive Design: Add responsive elements like columns, guarantee boxes, section dividers, e.g. which will display great on devices with differently sized screens.
- Add Animation To Pages: The plugin’s Event Manager feature lets you add animated page elements, 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 gives you access to conversion-optimized page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time and money designing beautiful-looking pages for your WordPress web site
- 100% conversion-optimized pages
- No web coding skills needed
- Works with any theme
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder not only lets you 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 currently over thirty templates available, with more templates planned for future 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
Typically, in order to have a fully customizable landing page template, you would need to either hire a web developer to do the work, or learn web coding languages like HTML and CSS and figure out what to do 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 overly 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 beautiful pre-built web page templates that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that allows you to change and customize anything on the page …
The landing page template sets included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Modify text in any headline, bullet point, button, etc.
- Remove text, images or any other part of your landing page
- Change all background images or colors
- Change the color of buttons, links, text, etc.
- Use your own fonts
- Select your own images
- Modify the size of the content area
- Change the order of elements on your page
- Translate everything on the page into different languages
- Add any kind of custom content in 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 customize any aspect of your page template)
Thrive Lightbox Plugin – Transform Your Site Into A Marketing Machine
The Thrive plugin combo includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully editable 2-step opt-in forms and events to your WordPress site …
(Add lead capture forms and events to your WordPress website with Thrive Lightbox)
Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A 2-step opt-in process helps to increase your conversion rates. Visitors click on a button or image, and then they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Capture more leads and subscribers with a 2-step opt-in process)
Thrive Lightbox 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 web pages, using a range of animation effects (e.g. zoom out, slide in from left to right, rotate, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your WordPress web site 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.
Testimonials
Below are a couple of the testimonials and comments that customers have written about the Thrive Content Builder plugin:
”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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”Great stuff! I am really impressed by all the new additions. You guys have shown a true commitment to making these themes and the Content Builder awesome. Michael Johnson”
Thrive Content Builder – 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 that was not created with the plugin installed.
You can add shortcodes inside Thrive Content Builder or Thrive Landing Pages and they will be displayed correctly on your website.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build using Thrive Content Builder.
Support
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder provides free updates, new landing pages and upcoming features. The plugin developers are constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive software is very well-supported, and users get lifetime upgrades, and one 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.
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 Edition – This allows you to activate the plugin on one website only. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Licensing – This lets you activate the plugin on all web sites that you personally own. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency Licensing – Use on your web sites & on all your client websites. Includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Please Note: Pricing for the Thrive Content Builder product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Presently, the software sells for the pricing shown above. This may not be the actual price charged by the plugin developer when you visit the product site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
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 time-saving features like ready-made web page elements and template sets that help make designing your pages faster, and on the other hand, you have 100% control over the design process and the freedom to edit anything and everything on your web page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, which lets you work unhindered by overly complicated steps.
For ”how-to” videos of the plugin, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the plugin website.
Install This Plugin …
If you want to edit something, simply click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you can see the change happen immediately. If you want to move something, just drag it and drop it into its new location. There are no overly complicated steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your website and create awesome sales pages and engaging content, Thrive Content and Page Builder delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
To learn more, check out the plugin here:
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