WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool to a tool that can be used to create all kinds of sites.
Whatever you can think of, somewhere around the world someone is most likely already building it with WordPress!
In this article you will discover the ultimate click-to-edit front end visual content builder for WordPress sites.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Editor – Is There An Easier Way To Create Web Pages In WordPress?
With all the rapid developments that the WordPress platform has gone through in recent years, many WordPress developers and users feel that using the default WordPress WYSIWYG content editor to build or edit more complex web site pages can sometimes be difficult.
(The WordPress editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional content, but adding complex page elements can be quite challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the content shown below …
To add the above layout to your content would require inserting something like this inside the default WordPress content editor …
Generally, this is not really an issue … unless you choose to reconfigure your layout (for example, move part of the content from box 1 into box 2, or replace the background color inside box 2 from green to yellow. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with page code or html.
The WordPress content editor is supposed to be an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) content editor, but as you can see, if you are trying to create complex page elements, what you see on your editor screen may not be what you are getting when your content is published …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some instances, some people argue that users may even be better off working directly inside the html editor tab instead of the WordPress WYSIWYG editor when trying to build complex page elements …
Even though WordPress is extremely easy to use, this makes it hard for non-technical website owners to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental issue 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 create a 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 when working in the editor doesn’t look even remotely similar to what you see in the front end. This means that you need to mentally translate what your content will look like when working with sophisticated layouts. Other solutions require taking multiple steps before you can begin configuring your page layout, or endlessly going back and forth between browser tabs and performing tweaks and updates to see how your content is progressing, which interrupts the creative process, as you wait for pages to load.
A number of WordPress web developers have come up with various solutions to address this issue. These range from stand alone WordPress plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to WordPress themes that come with built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make content creation easier!)
Some solutions require so many complex page design features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these editors work fine, but they don’t really seem to address the fundamental issue of using HTML and shortcodes as described earlier. Creating, 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 become quite frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your web content editor to function?
Now, visualize the following …
- You look at your content and if you spot something that needs changing, 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 abstract from code.
- You have an idea for some content that you’d like to create, so you immediately begin typing, and you build your page on the fly, without delays, with no tab switching, and without waiting for new web pages to reload.
Would that not be the perfect way to create content for your WordPress website? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the posts and pages?
(Imagine being able to create complex page layouts ”on the fly” for your web content without 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 Landing Pages And Content Builder – Click-To-Edit Drag & Drop Content Creation Plugin For WordPress
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a revolutionary plugin for WordPress that gives you total control over every aspect of your web page using true click-to-edit and drag and drop simplicity.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin is a new and exciting way to speed up the process of creating great content on your WordPress website.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor and a menu that lets you select, then drag and drop design elements on your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content editing option to WordPress)
The Thrive Content And Landing 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.
We will take an in-depth look at each of the above plugins and how all of this exciting functionality works seamlessly together to help you transform and improve your web presence and create awesome sales pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder For WordPress
With the Thrive Content Builder plugin, you can easily add complex design layouts to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Every element on your web page can be built using “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” …
Once elements have been positioned on the page, you can then edit or customize these without having to go through multiple steps or switching screens …
The built-in functionality of the plugin also lets you build highly attractive landing pages and easily edit these …
Thrive Content and Page Builder is simple, easy to use, and ideal for all WordPress users at all levels. In fact, working on content with the Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder plugin installed is so effortlessly simple, that the developers guarantee that you’ll never look at the process of creating and adding content the same way once you start using it
For more details, visit the plugin site here: Thrive Content Builder
Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages were created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another excellent plugin for WordPress we’ve previously written about on this site.
To read about the plugin, go here:
Benefits
Below we have listed just some of the many benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up the process of designing pages and creating content for your web site:
Quick And Easy To Install And Configure. Ready To Start Using In Minutes.
Thrive Content Builder is quite easy to install. Just upload it to your Plugin folder via your WordPress dashboard and activate.
Real-Time Content Content Creation
Thrive Content Builder is simple to use and lets you edit content in real-time.
What You See Is Truly What You Get
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see as you work within the content editor – typefaces, visual elements, page layouts, etc. is exactly what you get on the front end of your site.
Some additional benefits include the following:
- Add Eye-Catching Layouts With Drag-And-Drop Ease: Create any layout you can imagine with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality.
- Customizable Elements Included: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get an amazing click-to-edit WordPress content editor, but the plugin also includes an impressive collection of design elements that you can insert into your content layouts without using short codes, like columns, table of contents builder, section dividers, HTML code insert boxes, etc.
- Distraction-Free Content Creation: Not having to constantly switch tabs as you tweak your content and then wait for your page to reload frees up your attention and allows you to be more focused while you work or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you want done.
(Create, edit and customize page elements like testimonial boxes, tabbed content, feature grids, page section dividers, countdown timers, etc.)
Plugin Features
Thrive Content Builder provides many features to WordPress users. Here are just a few of these:
- Built-In Content Editor Functionality Is Preserved: You have access to all of the regular text editing options that you are used to (e.g. underlines, paragraph formatting, font styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Multi-Style Elements Menu: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” table of elements available on your post or page screen when creating or editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin includes various attention-grabbing and customizable elements that will help you increase the effectiveness of your sales pages, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonial boxes, and guarantee forms. In addition to being customizable, multiple design options are also available for various elements.
- Responsive Page Design: Add responsive elements like column layouts, boxes, section dividers, e.g. which will display great on all different kinds of devices.
- Add Animation To Your Pages: The plugin’s Event Manager feature lets you create animated page content, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Landing Page Template 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 all the way from initial signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages lets you easily add conversion-optimized pages to your website)
Thrive Landing Pages – Benefits
- Everything is hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time and money designing landing pages for your WordPress web site
- 100% conversion-optimized landing page templates
- No tech skills needed
- Works with any WordPress theme
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages not only lets you 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 30+ templates available, with more templates being worked on. In addition to the templates that are currently available, the developers plan to release new page templates for email lead generation, sales pages, training pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template
Normally, to be able to fully customize a 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 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 page templates that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change and customize any aspect of your page templates …
With the landing page template sets included with this plugin, you can:
- Modify text in any headline, button, bullet point, etc.
- Remove text, images or any other element of your landing page
- Change all background images and edit colors
- Change the color of links, buttons, text, etc.
- Use your own fonts
- Use your own images and graphics
- Change content area size
- Change the order of web page elements
- Translate pages into a different language
- Add custom content anywhere in your pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own from scratch and save them as new web page templates.
(Change or customize any element of your page)
Transform Your Web Site Into A Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox Plugin
The Thrive plugin package includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully customizable 2-step opt-in forms and events to your site …
(Add opt-in forms and events to your sales pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox 2-Step Opt-in Forms
A 2-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 …
(two-step opt-in forms help increase 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 when visitors click or hover their mouse over a button or an image, or when someone scrolls down to a certain point on the page. You can also use the Event Manager to animate images on your pages, using a range of animation effects (e.g. zoom in from the page center, slide in from top to bottom, roll in, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your pages with Thrive Lightbox)
Lightboxes and events are created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over the events, triggers and design.
Testimonials From Plugin Users
Here are some of the testimonials and feedback plugin customers have published 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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“I’m blown away by the plugin. Keep up the incredible, WordPress changing work, guys! Dean Phillips”
Plugin 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 using the plugin.
You can add short codes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will display correctly when published.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build with Thrive Content Builder.
Plugin Support
Thrive Content and Page Builder comes with 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, plus 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, thirty day, 100% money-back guarantee.
This is an exciting product for WordPress users 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 License – This lets you run the plugin on 1 site only. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This enables you to activate the plugin on all of your personal domains. It includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency Edition – This option enables you to set up the plugin on all of your own sites and any client domains. Cost includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Please Note: Current pricing for Thrive Content Builder depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. When we last checked, the software is being retailed for the amounts shown above. This may not be the actual pricing set by the product seller when you visit the plugin website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest 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 page elements and templates that help speed up content design, and on the other hand, you also have complete control over the design process and the ability to change 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 options.
For a demo video of the plugin, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the plugin website.
Download The Plugin …
If you want to edit something, you just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you’ll see the change happen instantly. If you want to move something, you drag it and drop it into its new location. There are no additional steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your website and create amazing sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content, this plugin delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For more information, visit the plugin website here:
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