WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging application into a tool that is now being used to create all types of sites.
Whatever you can think of, somewhere around the world someone is bound to be already building it with WordPress!
This article will help you discover the fastest way to build stunning content in WordPress.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Is The Default WordPress WYSIWYG Editor Meeting All Of Your Content Creation And Editing Needs?
With all the many advancements that WordPress has undergone in recent years, many WordPress developers believe that the WordPress content editor is now lagging behind all of the other improvements made to the software.
(The WordPress content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional content, but adding more complex page elements can be challenging!)
For example, if you look at the screenshot below …
To create the above layout, you would normally have to add short codes to the content for each of the elements you want to display …
Normally, this is not really an issue … until you want to edit something in the layout (for example, move part of the content from box 3 into box 2, or replace the background colour inside box 2 from bright red to gold. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the editor.
The WordPress 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, when creating with more complex content elements, often what you see may not be what you get …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some situations, you would probably be better off working directly inside the WordPress html (text) editor tab instead of the WordPress visual editor when trying to build non-linear page elements …
Even though WordPress is very user-friendly, this makes it hard for users without coding skills to fully manage their own content.
The fundamental challenge about having to use HTML and shortcodes to create content in the default WordPress editor can be summarized as follows:
1) Speed – How long does it take to create a web page using the editor?
2) Abstraction – How closely does the content in the editor resemble the “front end” content when you are creating or editing a page?
As you can see from the above image, what you see in the content editor does not look even remotely similar to what you see in the front end. This means that you have to abstract what the content will look like when working with sophisticated layouts. Other solutions require several 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 coming along, which interrupts the creative process, as you wait for for your updated content to refresh.
Many WordPress web developers have tried to come up with different solutions aiming to make content editing more intuitive. These solutions range from plugins you can install on your site that add new functionality to the editor, to themes that provide built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make creating complex content easier!)
Some solutions combine so many complex page design features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end content editors …
Many of these alternative solutions work fine, but they still don’t address the fundamental challenge of using shortcodes and HTML 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 to create or edit complex layouts quickly, this can start to become very frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like to build and edit your pages?
Now, visualize the following scenario …
- You look at your content and if you see something that needs changing, just click on the content and start typing. Your content has been instantly edited.
- You can drag and drop items around the page, and the page looks exactly as it will appear on the front end without having to mentally translate code.
- You have an idea for a specific piece of content you would like to create, so you immediately begin typing, and your web page gets built on the fly, without delays, no switching tabs, and no waiting for pages to reload.
Would this not be the ideal way to build content for your WordPress website? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around your pages?
(Imagine being able to create complex page layouts in real-time 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 Content Builder – Create Stunning Content Faster With Drag & Drop Ease In WordPress Websites
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive click-to-edit drag and drop content and landing page editor for WordPress.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin provides WordPress users with a new and exciting way to set up conversion-focused pages on any WordPress web site.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor and an item menu that lets you drag and drop elements to your page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content editor to your WordPress site)
Thrive Content Builder And Landing Pages 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 examine all of the above plugins and how all of this powerful functionality works together to help you easily transform and improve your web site and create amazing sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder
You can easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Every aspect of your web page can be created using simple “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” …
Once you have placed your elements on your page, you can continue to further customize or edit these without having to go through multiple steps or switching screens …
You can also work inside stunning landing pages that can just as easily be edited or customized …
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder 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 guarantee that once you start using it, it’ll ruin the experience of using all other content editors forever, and you will never look back!
Go here to learn more about this plugin: Thrive Content Builder
Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages were created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another terrific plugin that we have reviewed on this site.
See this article to learn more about the plugin:
Benefits Of Using Thrive Landing Pages And Content Builder Plugin
Here we have listed just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up the process of creating content for your web site:
Fast And Easy To Install And Set Up. Ready To Start Using In Minutes.
Thrive Content Builder is really easy to install. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your dashboard and activate.
Edit And Create Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is is not only really simple and intuitive to use, it also lets you add content right inside your pages in real-time.
A Truly Visual Editor
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see on the “backend” as you work within the editor – fonts, elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what your visitors will see in the front end of your site.
Some additional benefits and advantages include the following:
- Add Beautiful Layouts With Drag & 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 a visually exciting drag and drop WordPress content editor, but the plugin also includes a collection of customizable design elements that you can customizable and use on your layouts without using shortcodes, like columns, table of contents builder, page section dividers, custom HTML and CSS, etc.
- Distraction-Free Content Creation: Not having to constantly switch tabs as you edit your content and then wait for the updated content to refresh frees up your attention and allows you to build the content your business needs, quickly and without having to edit code or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you need done.
(Add, edit and customize web page elements like testimonial boxes, pricing tables, borderless content, dividers, responsive videos, etc.)
Thrive Content Builder Features
Thrive Content Builder provides WP users many great features. Here are just a few of these:
- All WordPress Editor Functionality Is Still Available: You have all of the built-in content editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold, justified text, font styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Multi-Style Elements: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” list 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 attention-grabbing and customizable elements that will help increase your sales conversions, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonials, and guarantees. In addition to being customizable, multiple design options are also available for various elements.
- Responsive Page Design: Add responsive columns, text boxes, content section dividers, e.g. which will display great on different-sized screens.
- Add Animation 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 Sets
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 initial signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages gives you access to conversion-optimized web page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Everything is hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time and money creating landing pages
- 100% conversion-optimized pages
- No coding skills required
- Works with all themes
Thrive Content and Landing Page 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 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, course pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Customizable Landing Page Template
Typically, to be able to fully customize a landing page template, you would need to either hire a web site designer 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 mess around with 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 creating conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you beautiful pre-designed pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change and customize any aspect of the page template …
The landing page templates included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Change text in any bullet point, headline, button, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other part of the landing page
- Change all background images or colours
- Change the color of links, text, buttons, etc.
- Select your own fonts
- Select your own images and graphics
- Edit content area size
- Change the order of web page elements
- Translate pages into different languages
- Add any kind of custom content anywhere inside the pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own from scratch and save them as new web page templates.
(Change and customize any element of your page)
Transform Your Web Site Into A Powerful Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox
The Thrive package also includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully editable two-step opt-in forms and animated objects to your WordPress site …
(Add opt-in forms and animation to your WordPress website with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox 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 …
(Opt-in forms help to increase your conversion rates.)
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 scrolls down to a certain point on the page. You can also use the Event Manager to animate images on your pages, using various 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 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.
Feedback From Customers
Below are some of the testimonials and comments users 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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”Your stuff is beautifully designed, fast and has great options for marketers that you just don’t see with other themes. Great, great job! Absolutely love Thrive! David Coleman”
Useful 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 that was not created using the plugin.
You can add WordPress short codes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will display correctly when published.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content built with Thrive Content Builder.
Product Support
Thrive Content and Page Builder provides free updates, new landing templates and upcoming features. The Thrive team is constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive software is very well-supported, and users get unlimited updates, and one year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 30 day, complete money-back guarantee.
This is an exciting product that just keeps 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 Licensing – This enables you to use the plugin on a single web site. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Edition – This edition lets you activate the plugin on all of your personal sites. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency License Edition – Use on your sites & on client domains. Includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Please Note: Current pricing for this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Currently, the plugin is selling for the amounts shown above. This may not be the actual price set by the product developer when you visit the website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for the current pricing information here:
Additional Plugin Info
The Thrive Content and 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 time-saving features like ready-made page elements and beautiful, conversion-optimized templates that help make designing your pages faster, and on the other hand, you also have complete control over your design process and the ability to change and customize anything and everything on your page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, that lets you work unhindered by overly complicated options.
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, you click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, do it, and you’ll see the change happen instantly. If you want to move something, all you have to do is simply drag it and drop it into its new location. There are no additional steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your site and create awesome marketing pages and content, this plugin delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
To learn more, check out the plugin here:
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