WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging application into a tool that can be used to design all types of pages – landing pages, portfolio pages, local business pages, etc.
Whatever you can think of, someone is most likely already building it with WordPress!
In this article you will discover the fastest and easiest to use visual editor for your WordPress web site.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Content Editor – Is There An Easier Tool To Design Pages In WordPress?
With all the many advancements that the WordPress platform has gone through in recent years, many WordPress users feel that the WordPress content editor is not really suitable for creating or changing complex content layouts.
(The WordPress editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional content, but adding complex page elements can be challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the layout shown below …
To create the above layout, you would have to insert shortcodes into your content for each page element you want to display to visitors …
Generally, this is not really an issue … unless you choose to reconfigure the layout (for example, move part of the content from box 1 into box 2, or replace the button in a box from red to light blue. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the editor.
The WordPress visual editor is supposed to provide non-technical users with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG content editor, but as you can see, if you are trying to add more complex content elements, often what you see is not the same as what you get …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some instances, some people argue that you would probably be better off working directly inside the WordPress text 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 website owners to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental issue of using HTML and shortcodes to create content in the default WordPress visual 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 editor resemble the “front end” content when you are creating or editing a page?
As you can see from the above, what you see in the editor does not look even remotely similar to what you see in the front end. This means that users have to abstract what the content will look like when working with complex layouts. Other solutions require multiple steps before you can begin configuring your page layout, or endlessly switching tabs and performing updates to see how your content is progressing, which can interrupt the creative process, as you wait for your page to refresh.
Many WordPress developers have tried to come up with different solutions with the aim of making content editing easier. These solutions range from stand alone WordPress 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 creating complex page layouts easier!)
Some solutions end up requiring so many page design features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these alternative editors work, but they still fail to address the fundamental issue of using HTML and shortcodes as described earlier. Creating, adding and editing 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 page content to look “just right” quickly, this can become very frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your web page builder to behave?
Now that you’ve asked this question, visualize this …
- You spot something in the content that needs correction so you, just click on the content and start editing it. Your content has been instantly changed.
- You can drag and drop elements around 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 a specific piece of content you would like to create, so you immediately begin typing, and you build your page as you go, with no delays, no switching tabs, and without waiting for pages to refresh and reload.
Would that not be the perfect way to create content for your website? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the pages?
(Imagine being able to create complex pages in real-time 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 And Landing Page Builder
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive WordPress click-to-edit drag-and-drop content editor.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin is a new and incredibly easy way to set up conversion-focused pages on any WordPress site.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor and a sidebar menu that lets you select, then drag and drop elements on your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content builder to your WordPress site)
The plugin is actually a combination of the Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages plugins combined into one, plus an additional plugin feature called Thrive Lightbox.
Let’s review all of the above and how these features work together to help you easily transform and improve your site and create amazing marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder Plugin For WordPress
With the Thrive Content Builder plugin, you can easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Everything on your page can be created, changed and repositioned with ”click-to-edit” and “drag and drop” ease …
Once you have positioned your elements on the page, you can then further edit or customize these without having to go through multiple steps or opening new settings windows …
You can also build beautiful landing pages that can just as easily be edited or 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 Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder installed is so effortlessly simple, that the developers warn that you’ll never look back once you start using it
For more details about this plugin go here: 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 written about on this site.
Go here for more information about the plugin:
Benefits Of Using Thrive Landing Pages And Content Builder
Below we have listed just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up content creation:
Installation Is Easy, Quick & Simple
Thrive Content Builder is really easy to install. Simply upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your admin area and activate.
Edit Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is really simple to use and lets you create and add content right inside your web pages in real-time.
What You See Is Really What You Get
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see 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.
Additional plugin benefits include the following:
- Add Eye-Catching Web Page Layouts With Drag And Drop Ease: Create any type of layout you can imagine with drag-and-drop ease.
- Customizable Elements Included: With Thrive Content Builder you not only get a drag and drop content builder, but the plugin also includes a collection of design elements that you can insert into your web pages without using shortcodes, for e.g.: content toggle, styled lists, dividers, Google Map embeds, etc.
- Ideal For Non-Technical Users: Not having to constantly switch tabs as you tweak content and then wait for the updates to reload 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.
(Thrive Content Builder lets you easily insert, edit and customize page elements like testimonial boxes, columns, feature grids, section dividers, countdown timers, etc.)
Thrive Content Builder Features
Thrive Content Builder offers website owners a number of unique features. Below we have listed just some of these features:
- Regular Content Editor Functionality Is Preserved: You have access to all of the regular WordPress content editing options that you are used to (e.g. underline, paragraph formatting, headings and font sizes, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements Menu: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” table of multi-style elements available on your post or page screen when creating and editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin includes a range of attention-grabbing and customizable elements that will help you increase the effectiveness of your sales pages, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonials, and guarantees. In addition to customization options, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Responsive Page Design: Add mobile-friendly columns, text boxes, content section dividers, e.g. which will resize and display great on different device screens.
- Add Animation Events To Web Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you insert animation in buttons, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Web 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 signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages plugin lets you easily add conversion-optimized web pages to your site)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Everything is hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time and money building and customizing web pages for your web site
- 100% conversion-optimized web pages
- No coding skills needed
- Works with any theme
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder 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, 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 over 30 templates available, with more templates scheduled for future release. In addition to the templates that are currently available, expect to see new templates in the future for email lead generation, sales pages, lesson pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template
Normally, to be able to have a completely customizable landing page template, you would need to either hire a web site developer 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 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 attractive pre-built web pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change and customize any element of your page …
With the landing page templates included with this plugin, you can:
- Change text in any headline, button, bullet point, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other element of the landing page
- Change the background image and background colours
- Change the color of text, links, 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 everything on the page into a different language
- Add any kind of custom content anywhere in any of the pages
- Start with a blank web page and create your own templates, or even build your own library of custom landing page templates.
(Change or edit anything on the page)
Transform Your Website Into A Powerful Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox Plugin
The Thrive package includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully customizable two-step opt-in forms and animated objects to your web site …
(Add lead capture forms and animated objects to your sales pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A 2-step opt-in process can increase your conversion rates. Visitors click on a button or image, and then they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Opt-in forms help to 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 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 page, using a range of effects (e.g. fade out, slide in from top to bottom, rotate, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your pages with Thrive Lightbox)
A lightbox and event is created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over events, triggers and design.
User Feedback
Here are just some testimonials and feedback plugin customers have provided for Thrive Content Builder:
”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”
Thrive Content Builder – Useful 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 pages or posts that were not created with the plugin.
You can add WordPress shortcodes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will be displayed correctly on your website.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build using Thrive Content Builder.
Plugin Support
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder comes with 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 software 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 for WordPress users that will just keep getting better.
Product 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 allows you to install the plugin on 1 site only. Cost includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License Edition – This license option lets you configure the plugin on all of your personal sites. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency License – This enables you to use the plugin on all of your own domains and your client web sites. It includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Cost = $247.00 per year.
Note: Pricing for Thrive Content Builder can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The above reflects the current price when this content was published. This may or may not be the actual price set by the software seller when you visit the website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Information
The developers of the Thrive Content 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, conversion-optimized templates that help make designing your content faster, and on the other hand, you have 100% control over the design process and the freedom to change and customize anything and everything on your page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, which allows you to see exactly how the content you are working on will look on the “front end” after publishing.
For ”how-to” videos of the plugin in action, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the plugin website.
In Conclusion …
If you want to edit something, you 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, just drag it and drop it into its new location. There are no complicated steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your website and create awesome sales pages and content, this plugin delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For full details, check out the plugin here:
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