WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool into a tool being used to design all types of pages – landing pages, portfolio pages, business pages, etc.
Whatever you can imagine, somewhere around the world someone is most likely already building it with WordPress!
In this article you will discover the simplest WYSIWYG editor for WordPress.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Visual Editor – Is There An Easier Tool To Create Web Pages In WordPress?
Using the default WordPress visual content editor to build or edit sophisticated web pages can be quite challenging.
(The built-in WordPress visual content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional text and images, but adding more complex content elements can be challenging!)
For example, if you look at the illustration below …
To create the above in your content would require inserting something that looks like this into your default WordPress visual content editor …
Normally, this is not really an issue … unless you need to edit an element in your layout (for example, move some of the content from box 1 into box 2, or change the button in a box from red to yellow. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the content editor.
The WordPress visual content editor is supposed to give non-technical users an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, but as you can see, if you are creating with more 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 instances, you could even be better off working directly inside the WordPress html editor tab instead of the WordPress visual editor when trying to create fancy page elements …
Even though WordPress is extremely easy to use, this makes it hard for non-technical users to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental problem of having to use HTML and shortcodes to create content in the default WordPress WYSIWYG editor can be summarized by asking 2 questions:
1) Speed – How long does it take to create a page using the editor?
2) Abstraction – How closely does the content in the editor 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 when working in the editor does not look at all 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 several steps before you can start configuring your page layout, or endlessly switching tabs and performing updates to see how your content is progressing, which can affect how quickly you can create your content, as you wait for pages to reload.
A number of WordPress web developers have tried to come up with various solutions with the objective of addressing this issue. Some of these solutions range from WP plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to WordPress themes that provide built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make content creation easier!)
Some solutions end up combining so many page-building features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these alternative editors work, but they don’t 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 content to look ”perfect” quickly, this can become really frustrating after a while.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like to build and edit your web pages?
Now, visualize this …
- You spot something in your content that needs to be changed so you, simply click on the content and start changing it. Your content has been instantly fixed.
- You can drag and drop elements on the page, and the page looks exactly as it will appear on the front end without having to mentally translate any code.
- You have an idea for some content that you’d like to create, so you simply start typing, and your web page gets built as you go, with no delays, no tab switching, and without waiting for new web content to refresh.
Would this not be the perfect way to build content for your site? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around your page?
(Imagine being able to create complex web pages ”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 And Landing Pages
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a unique WordPress plugin that gives you complete control over every aspect of your content pages with true click-to-edit and drag and drop simplicity.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin is a new and incredibly easy way to set up conversion-focused pages on any WordPress web site.
Once installed, Thrive Content Builder adds a visual content editor with a menu that lets you click, then drag and drop design elements to your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual editor to WordPress)
The Thrive Content And Page Builder plugin is actually a combination of the Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages plugins rolled into one, plus an additional plugin feature called Thrive Lightbox.
In this article we’ll take a look at all of the above and how these features work together to help you easily transform and improve your website and create awesome marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder For WordPress
You can easily add complex design layouts to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Every element on your web page can be configured by dragging and dropping things around the page and then clicking to edit them …
Once elements have been added to a page, you can then easily edit or customize these without having to go through multiple steps or switching screens …
You can also work inside beautiful 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 with the Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder plugin installed is so amazingly easy, that the developers warn that once you start using it, you’ll never look back!
More info: Thrive Content Builder
Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages were created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another amazing plugin for WordPress that we have previously recommended on this site.
Go here to read more about this plugin:
Benefits
Here are just some of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up your page design and content creation process:
Be Up And Running In Minutes
Thrive Content Builder installs just like any other plugin. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Edit & Add Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is is not only very simple to use, it also lets you build content in real-time.
What You See Is Truly What You Get
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see on the “backend” as you work within the editor – typefaces, elements, page layouts, etc. is exactly what your visitors will see on the front end of your site.
Some additional benefits include:
- Design Eye-Catching 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 exciting and an easy-to-use click-to-edit WordPress content builder, but the plugin also includes a jaw-dropping collection of functional and eye-catching web design elements that you can customizable and use on your layouts without using short codes, for e.g.: flat design elements, star ratings for review pages, section dividers, code insert boxes, etc.
- More Enjoyable Content Creation: Not having to constantly switch tabs as you tweak your content and then wait for for your updated content to load frees up your attention and allows you to be more focused while you build or edit your content or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you need done.
(Insert, edit and customize web page elements like testimonial boxes, flat design elements, table of contents builder, buttons, responsive videos, etc.)
Plugin Features
Thrive Content Builder provides website owners many unique features. Below we have listed just some of those features:
- Built-In Content Editor Functionality Is Preserved: You have all of the regular WordPress content editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold formatting, centering text, heading styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” table of multi-style elements available on your post or page screen for creating or editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin provides you with a range of eye-catching and customizable elements that will help increase your conversions, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonial boxes, and guarantee forms. In addition to customization options, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Responsive Design: Add mobile-friendly columns, guarantee boxes, content dividers, e.g. which will display great on devices with differently sized screens.
- Add Animation To Web Pages: The plugin’s Event Manager feature lets you create animated page elements, 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 lets you easily add conversion-optimized web pages to your web site)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time and money building landing pages for your WordPress web site
- 100% conversion-optimized pages
- No coding skills required
- Works with all WordPress themes
Thrive Content 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 beautifully 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 30+ templates available, with more templates being worked on. In addition to the existing templates, the developers plan to release new web page templates for email lead generation, sales pages, lesson pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Customize Your Landing Page Template Sets
Normally, to be able to have fully customizable landing page templates, you would need to either pay a web site 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 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 creating conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you attractive pre-built web pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change or edit any aspect of the page …
The landing page templates included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Modify text in all headlines, bullet points, buttons, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other element of your landing page
- Change any background images and edit colours
- Change the color of links, text, buttons, etc.
- Choose your own fonts
- Use your own images and graphics
- Change the size of the content area
- Rearrange the order of web page elements
- Translate everything on the page into different languages
- Add any kind of custom content anywhere inside your pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own web pages from scratch and save them as new web page templates.
(Change and edit anything on the page)
Transform Your Site Into A Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox Plugin
The Thrive plugin combo also includes Thrive Lightbox, which lets you add fully configurable 2-step opt-in forms and events to your web pages …
(Add lead capture forms and animation to your web 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 …
(2-step opt-in forms help improve your conversion rates.)
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 scrolls down to a certain point on the page. You can also use the Event Manager to animate images on your web pages, using a range of effects (e.g. zoom in, slide in from left to right, roll out, 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 all events, triggers and design.
Testimonials From Customers
Here are a couple of the testimonials and feedback that users have published about the Thrive Content Builder plugin:
“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”
Thrive Content Builder – 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 WordPress short codes inside Thrive Content Builder or Thrive Landing Pages and they will be displayed correctly on the front end.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build with Thrive Content Builder.
Plugin Support
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder Plugin 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 really well-supported, and users get unlimited software upgrades, and one year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 30 day, full refund guarantee.
This is an exciting product that will just keep getting better.
Software 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 – This enables you to activate the plugin on a single domain. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This lets you use the plugin on all of your personal websites. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency License – This enables you to use the plugin on all of your own websites and any client web sites. Includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Note: Pricing for this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Presently, the software sells for the pricing shown above. This may or may not be the actual price set by the software seller when you visit the plugin site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Plugin Info
The Thrive Content and Landing Page Builder plugin developers 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 the time-saving benefits of ready-made page elements and conversion-optimized templates that help to speed up your content creation, and on the other hand, you have 100% control over the design process and the ability to edit everything on your web 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 showing plugin usage, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive website.
Get The Plugin …
If you want to edit something, just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, do it, and you’ll see the change happen immediately. If you want to move something, all you need 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 web presence and create awesome marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content, Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For more information, visit the plugin website:
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