WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging application into a tool that is now used to create all kinds of sites.
Whatever you can think of, somewhere around the world someone is bound to be already building it using WordPress!
This article will help you discover the simplest way to build stunning content in WordPress.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Is The Default WordPress Visual Editor Still Meeting All Of Your Web Design Needs?
Using the built-in WordPress visual content editor to create or edit sophisticated page elements can be quite challenging.
(The built-in WordPress WYSIWYG content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional content, but adding more complex page elements can be quite challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the layout shown below …
Creating the above content in your content would require typing something that looks like this inside your WordPress content editor …
Typically, this is not really an issue … until you decide to reconfigure your layout (for example, move part of the content from box 1 into box 2, or replace the background color inside 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 content editor is supposed to give users an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, but as you can see, if you are trying to create complex content elements, what you see in the WordPress visual 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 cases, users would probably be better off working directly inside the html editor tab instead of the WordPress WYSIWYG editor when trying to add non-linear page elements …
Even though WordPress is very user-friendly, this makes it difficult for non-technical website owners to fully manage their own content.
The fundamental challenge about having to use HTML and shortcodes to create content in WordPress can be summarized by asking the following questions:
1) Speed – How long will it take to build a web page using the editor?
2) Abstraction – How closely does the content in the editor match the “front end” content when you are creating or editing a page?
As you can see from the above screenshot, what you see when working in the back end looks nothing like what you see in the front end. This means that you have to translate mentally 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 switching tabs and performing tweaks and updates to see how your content is progressing, which can interrupt the creative process, as you wait for your page to load.
A number of WordPress developers have tried to come up with a range of solutions to address this issue. These solutions range from plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to WP themes that offer built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make content creation easier!)
Some solutions include so many complex page-building features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end content editors …
Many of these alternative solutions work fine, but they still fail to address the fundamental challenge of using HTML and shortcodes as described earlier. Adding and editing non-linear content 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 layouts 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 pages?
Now that you’ve asked this question, imagine the following …
- You look at your content and if you spot something that needs to be corrected, simply click on the content and start writing. Your content has been instantly fixed.
- You simply drag and drop elements around the page, and see them exactly as they will display on the front end without having to mentally visualize any code.
- You have an idea for a specific item of content that you would like to add, so you simply start typing, and you build your page on the fly, without delays, without tab switching, and without waiting for new web pages to refresh and reload.
Would this not be the ideal way to build content for your website? A true WYSIWYG content builder 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 web page layouts quickly for your web content with no 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 – The Fastest Way To Build Stunning Web Page Layouts In WordPress
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a revolutionary plugin for WordPress that lets you easily create stunning content layout with true click-to-edit and drag and drop simplicity.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin is a new and incredibly easy way to speed up the process of adding content to WordPress websites.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor with a sidebar menu that lets you select, then drag and drop elements on your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content editor to your WordPress site)
Thrive Content And Landing Page 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.
Let’s review each of the above and how these powerful features work seamlessly together to help you transform and improve your business online and create awesome marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder – Click-To-Edit Drag And Drop Content Editing Plugin For WordPress
With this plugin installed easily add content to your web pages and build complex page layouts using drag and drop elements …
Everything on 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 the page, you can then continue to edit or customize these without going through additional steps or complicated option screens …
The built-in Landing Pages editor also lets you create stunning 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, working on content with the plugin installed is so amazingly easy, that the developers warn that you’ll never look at creating content the same way once you start using it
Go here to learn more: 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 previously reviewed on this site.
See this article to read about the plugin:
Benefits
Below are just some of the benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up the process of creating content for your WordPress website:
Really Easy To Install
Thrive Content Builder installs just like every WP plugin. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugins folder via your WP dashboard and activate.
Edit And Create Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is is not only simple to use, it also lets you add content to your pages in real-time.
A Truly Visual Editor
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see as you work within the content editor – fonts, visual elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get on the front end of your site.
Additional benefits of the plugin include:
- Beautiful 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 an exciting and easy-to-use click-to-edit WordPress content builder, but the plugin also includes a jaw-dropping collection of professional web design elements that you can customizable and use on your layouts without using short codes, like pricing tables, table of contents builder, call to action buttons, responsive video embeds, etc.
- More Enjoyable Content Creation: Not having to deal with technical stuff, or having to wait for your page to refresh frees up your attention and allows you to build the web pages your business needs, quickly and without having to edit code or click through multiple steps to get what you need done.
(Insert, edit and customize web page elements like testimonial boxes, tabbed content, text boxes, page section dividers, credit card icons, etc.)
Thrive Content Builder Features
Thrive Content Builder provides a number of great features to WordPress users. Below we have listed just a few of these:
- All Content Editor Functionality Is Still Available: You have all of the regular WordPress text editing options that you are used to (e.g. underlines, centering text, headings, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements Menu: The plugin adds a “drag and drop” table of multi-style elements to your post or page screen when editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin comes with various attention-grabbing and customizable elements that will help increase the effectiveness of your sales pages, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonial boxes, and guarantees. In addition to being customizable, multiple design options are also available for various elements.
- Responsive Design: Add mobile-friendly elements like column layouts, guarantee boxes, section dividers, e.g. which will adjust to display correctly on different device screens.
- Add Animation Events To Your Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you add animations, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages – Landing Page Template Sets
Landing page template sets are 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 lets you easily add conversion-optimized pages to your site)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Everything is hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time designing web pages
- 100% conversion-optimized landing pages
- No tech skills required
- Works with all WordPress themes
Thrive Landing Pages and 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, conversion optimized page templates and fully customizable …
(Landing page template sets that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language)
There are over thirty templates available, with more templates being worked on. In addition to the existing templates, expect to see new templates in the future for email lead generation, sales pages, course pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Customizable Landing Page Template Sets
Normally, in order to fully customize landing page templates, you would need to either hire a web designer to do the work, or learn how to code web pages 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 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 beautiful pre-built web pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change or customize anything on your page …
With the landing page template sets included with this plugin, you are able to:
- Change text in any headline, button, bullet point, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other part of the landing page
- Change the background image and edit colour
- Change the color of buttons, links, text, etc.
- Select your own fonts
- Select your own images
- Edit the size of the content area
- Rearrange the order of page elements
- Translate pages into a different language
- Add any type of custom content in your pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own landing pages from scratch and save them as new web page templates.
(Change and edit anything on your page template)
Thrive Lightbox – Transform Your Site Into A Marketing Machine
The Thrive plugin combo includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully editable two-step opt-in forms and events to your WordPress site …
(Add opt-in forms and animated objects to your WordPress web site with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
2-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process can help increase 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)
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 page, using various effects (e.g. zoom in, slide in from right to left, rotate, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your web pages with Thrive Lightbox)
A lightbox and event is created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over your events, triggers and design.
Feedback From Users
Here are a few of the testimonials and feedback that users have provided for 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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”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”
Plugin Tips
Thrive Content Builder works with any WordPress theme, not just with the Thrive Landing Pages plugin. Note, however, that you cannot use Thrive Content Builder to edit content on existing pages or posts that were not created with the plugin.
You can add shortcodes inside Thrive Content Builder or Thrive Landing Pages and they will display correctly when published.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content built with Thrive Content Builder.
Thrive Content Builder Support
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages Plugin 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 unlimited updates, plus 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, thirty day, complete refund guarantee.
This is an exciting product for WordPress users that just keeps getting better.
Software 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 Licensing – This lets you configure the plugin on 1 site only. Cost includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Licensing – This enables you to activate the plugin on all of your personal sites. Pricing includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency Edition – This license enables you to use the plugin on all of your own sites and any client web sites. It includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Cost = $247.00 per year.
Note: Current pricing for this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. When we last checked, the software sells for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual pricing charged by the software developer when you visit the plugin website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest pricing information:
Additional Plugin Info
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 page elements and beautiful, pre-designed templates that help to make designing your pages faster, and on the other hand, you have complete control over the design process and the ability to change everything on your page, using the plugin’s visual content editor, that lets you see exactly how the content you are working on will appear to visitors after being published.
For a demo video showing how the software works, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive Content Builder website.
Get The 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 instantly. If you want to move something, all you need to do is 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 sales 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 details, visit the plugin website:
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