WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging application into a tool being used to design all types of pages – landing pages, portfolio pages, local business pages, etc.
Whatever you can think of, someone is probably already building it with WordPress!
In this article you will discover the simplest, most intuitive WYSIWYG content builder for WordPress websites.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Does The WordPress Content Editor Meet All Of Your Web Design Needs?
Using the WordPress visual content editor to create or edit complex content elements can be difficult.
(The default WordPress editor is great for adding, formatting and editing “linear” content, but adding more complex page elements can be challenging!)
For example, if you look at the screenshot below …
To add the above page elements to a page would require inserting something like this inside your default WordPress content editor …
Normally, this is not really an issue … unless you choose to change the layout (for example, move some of the content from box 3 into box 2, or change the button inside box 1 from dark green to yellow. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with page code or html.
The WordPress content editor is supposed to provide users with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) content editor, but as you can see, if you are working with more complex layouts, often what you see in the visual editor may not be the same as what you are going to get when the web page gets published …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some cases, some people argue that users could be better off working directly inside the WordPress html editor tab instead of the visual editor when trying to create something other than simple layouts …
Even though WordPress is very user-friendly, this makes it hard for WordPress users without coding skills to fully manage their own content.
The fundamental issue of having to use shortcodes and HTML to create content with WordPress can be summarized by asking 2 questions:
1) Speed – How long does it take to build a web page using the 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, what you see in the editor does not look at all like what you see in the front end. This means that you need 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 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 affect how fast you can create your content, as you wait for your updates to reload.
Many WordPress web developers have come up with a range of solutions with the aim of addressing this issue. Some of these solutions range from standalone plugins you can install on your site that add new functionality to the editor, to themes that offer 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 complex page-building features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end content editors …
Many of these editors work, but they don’t really address the fundamental problem with using shortcodes and HTML 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 page layouts quickly, this can start to become very frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your content editor to behave?
Now, visualize this …
- You spot something in the content that needs to be corrected so you, just click on the content and start changing it. Your content is then instantly fixed.
- You can drag and drop items around the page, and the page looks exactly as it will display on the front end without having to mentally translate any code.
- You have an idea for a specific item of content you would like to create, so you immediately begin typing, and you build your web page as you go, with no delays, no tab switching, and no waiting for new web content to republish and reload.
Would this not be the perfect way to create 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 your pages?
(Imagine being able to create complex web page layouts quickly 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 – The Ultimate Drag And Drop Front End Visual Content Builder For WordPress Web Sites
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a revolutionary plugin for WordPress that lets you quickly build amazing content pages using true click-to-edit and drag and drop simplicity.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin 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 elements on your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual editor to WordPress)
Thrive Content Builder And Landing Pages 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.
We’ll take an in-depth look at each of the above and how these powerful features work 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
With Thrive Content Builder easily add content to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Every aspect of your web page can be designed using “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” …
Once you have placed your elements on the page, you can then continue to customize or edit them without going through multiple steps or switching screens …
You can also create beautiful landing pages that can also be easily customized …
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages 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 effortlessly simple, that the developers guarantee that once you start using it, you’ll never look back!
Learn more about the plugin here: Thrive Content Builder
Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages were created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another amazing plugin we’ve reviewed on this site.
To read more about this plugin, see this page:
Benefits
Here we have listed just a few of the benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up content creation:
Installation Is Easy, Quick & Simple
Thrive Content Builder is quite easy to install. Just upload the plugin file to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Real-Time Content Content Editing
Thrive Content Builder is is not only very simple and intuitive to use, it also lets you edit content in real-time.
What You See Is Exactly What You Get
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see as you work within the editor – typefaces, visual elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get on the front end of your site.
Some additional benefits and advantages include:
- Eye-Catching Layouts With Drag & Drop Ease: Create any type of layout you can imagine with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality.
- Design Elements Included: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get an exciting and an easy-to-use click-to-edit content builder, but the plugin also includes an impressive collection of customizable web design elements that you can use on your layouts without using shortcodes, for e.g.: flat design elements, star ratings for review pages, buttons, code insert boxes, etc.
- More Enjoyable Content Creation: Not having to wait for the updates to reload frees up your attention and allows you to build the content your business needs, quickly and without having to deal with code or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you need done.
(Create, edit and customize page elements like testimonial boxes, tabbed content, table of contents builder, call to action buttons, responsive Google map embeds, etc.)
Plugin Features
Thrive Content Builder provides many unique features to WordPress users. Below we have listed just a few:
- Built-In WordPress Content Functionality Is Preserved: You have all of the built-in content editing options that you are used to (e.g. underline, paragraph formatting, font styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Multi-Style Elements: The plugin adds a “drag and drop” table of multi-style elements to your post or page screen for editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin includes a range of eye-catching and customizable elements that will help you increase the effectiveness of your sales pages, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonials, and guarantee forms. In addition to customization options, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Responsive Web Page Design: Add responsive columns, text boxes, section dividers, e.g. which will resize and display great on different device screens.
- Add Animation To Web Pages: Thrive Content Builder’s Event Manager feature lets you insert animations, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Web Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages – Landing Page Sets
Landing page sets are web 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 add conversion-optimized web pages to your site)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time building attractive-looking pages
- 100% conversion-optimized web page templates
- No web coding skills required
- Works with all WordPress themes
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 professionally designed, conversion optimized web 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 30+ templates available, with more templates scheduled 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, training pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable Landing Page Template
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 how to code web pages 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 building conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you beautiful pre-designed page templates that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change and edit any element of your page template …
With the landing page template sets included with this plugin, you can do the following:
- Edit text in all buttons, headlines, bullet points, etc.
- Remove text, images or any other element of your landing page
- Change the background image or colors
- Change the color of links, text, buttons, etc.
- Choose your own fonts
- Select your own images and graphics
- Modify the size of the content area
- Change the order of elements on your pages
- Translate pages 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 page templates.
(Change or customize any element of the page template)
Thrive Lightbox – Transform Your Web Site Into A Marketing Machine
The Thrive plugin package includes Thrive Lightbox, which lets you add fully configurable 2-step opt-in forms and events to your content pages …
(Add lead capture forms and animation to your pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process helps to improve your conversion rates. Visitors click on an image or button, and then they are presented with your opt-in form …
(When visitors click on the button, they are presented with an opt-in form)
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 over a button or an image, or when someone reaches a certain point on the page. You can also use the Event Manager to animate images on your web pages, using a range of animation effects (e.g. zoom in, slide in from right to left, roll in, 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 events, triggers and design.
Feedback From Users
Below are a couple of the testimonials plugin customers 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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”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 Plugin – Tips
Thrive Content Builder works with any theme in WordPress, not just with the Thrive Landing Pages plugin. 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 shortcodes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will display correctly when published.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build using Thrive Content Builder.
Product Support
Thrive Content and Landing Page 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 well-supported, and users get unlimited 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 will just keep 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 Licensing – This enables you to activate the plugin on one website only. Pricing includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Licensing – This license option enables you to configure the plugin on all websites that you personally own. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency Edition – This license lets you set up the plugin on all of your own sites and all client websites. Pricing includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Cost = $247.00 per year.
Note: The price of the Thrive Content Builder software can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Presently, the product sells for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual price set by the product seller when you visit the website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest pricing:
Additional Information
The developers of the Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder plugin repeatedly 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 web page elements and beautiful, pre-designed templates that help make designing your pages faster, and on the other hand, you have 100% control over your design process and the freedom to change and customize everything on your page, using the plugin’s visual content editor, which lets you see exactly how the content you are working on will appear after publishing.
For demo videos of the plugin in action, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive plugins website.
We Highly Recommend This …
If you want to edit something, just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you will see the change happen instantly. If you want to move something, all you need to do is simply drag it and drop it into its new position. There are no complicated steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your web presence and create amazing marketing pages and content, Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For full details, check out the plugin here:
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