WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging application to a tool being used to create all kinds of sites.
Whatever you can imagine, someone is most likely already building it using WordPress!
This article will help you discover how to create stunning content faster with drag & drop ease in WordPress.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Visual Editor – Is There A Smarter Way For Creating And Editing Content In WordPress?
Using the default WordPress WYSIWYG editor to create or edit complex page layouts can be quite difficult, especially for non-technical WordPress users.
(The WordPress editor is great for adding, formatting and editing “linear” text and images, but adding complex page elements can be challenging!)
For example, if you look at the illustration below …
Adding the above content would require entering something like this into the WordPress editor …
Generally, this is not really an issue … unless you decide to change your layout (for example, move part of the content from box 3 into box 2, or replace the button in a box from dark green to gray. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the editor.
The WordPress content editor is supposed to give users an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) content editor, but as you can see, when creating with complex page elements, often what you see on your screen is not what you get …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some instances, users could be better off working with the html source itself instead of the WYSIWYG editor when trying to build complex layouts …
Even though WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platform available, this makes it hard for WordPress users without knowledge of HTML or CSS to fully manage their own content.
The fundamental issue of using shortcodes and HTML to create content in the default WordPress editor can be summarized as follows:
1) Speed – How long will it take to create a web page using this editor?
2) Abstraction – How closely does the content in the ”back end” match the content in the “front end” when you are creating or editing a page?
As you can see from the above image, what you see when working in the content editor doesn’t look even remotely similar to what you see in the front end. This means that users have to translate mentally what the content will look like when working with complex layouts. Other solutions require taking a number of steps before you can begin configuring your page layout, or endlessly switching browser tabs and performing tweaks and updates to see how your content is progressing, which interrupts the creative process, as you wait for the new content to refresh.
A number of WordPress web developers have tried to come up with a range of solutions to try to make content editing more intuitive. These solutions range from plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to themes that come with built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make creating complex layouts easier!)
Some solutions end up combining so many complex page design features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end content editors …
Many of these editors work, but they fail to address the fundamental problem with using shortcodes and HTML 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 your web pages to look ”perfect” quickly, this can become very frustrating after a while.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your content editor to function?
Now, imagine this …
- You spot something in your content that needs correction so you, just click on the content and start writing. Your content is instantly edited.
- You can drag and drop elements on the page, and the page looks exactly as it will display on the front end without having to mentally visualize HTML or shortcodes.
- You have an idea for an item of content that you’d like to create, so you just start typing, and your web page gets built on the fly, without delays, without switching of tab browsers, and no waiting for new pages to republish and reload.
Would that not be the ideal way to create content for your site? A true visual editor where all you have to do is click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around your page?
(Imagine being able to create complex 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 And Landing Pages – WordPress Click-To-Edit Drag And Drop Content And Landing Page Creator
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a ground-breaking WordPress plugin that allows you to easily add amazing content to WordPress posts and pages using a click-to-edit and 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 website.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor and a menu that lets you click, then drag and drop elements on your page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content editing option to WordPress)
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.
We’ll take an in-depth look at all of the above and how these exciting features work seamlessly together to help you easily transform and improve your web site and create awesome marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder – WordPress Plugin
You can easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Every aspect of your web page can be configured with “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” ease …
Once you have positioned elements on your page, you can then continue to edit or customize them without going through multiple steps or complicated configuration screens …
You can also work inside highly attractive landing pages and easily customize 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 plugin installed is so effortlessly easy, 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
Learn more about the plugin here: Thrive Content Builder
The integrated Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages plugin was created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another excellent plugin for WordPress that we have reviewed on this site.
For more information about this plugin, see this article:
Plugin Benefits
Below we have listed just some of the many benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up content creation:
Fast And Simple To Install And Implement. Ready To Start Using In Minutes.
Thrive Content Builder installs like every other WP plugin. Just upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your admin user account and activate.
Edit And Add Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is is not only very simple to use, it also lets you create, edit and add content to your pages in real-time.
A Truly Visual Content Builder
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.
Some additional plugin benefits include:
- Add Stunning Page Layouts With Drag & Drop Ease: Create any kind of layout you can imagine with drag-and-drop ease.
- Add Customizable Elements Without Shortcodes: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get an amazing drag and drop content editor, but the plugin also includes a collection of functional and eye-catching design elements that you can insert into your content layouts without using shortcodes, like tabbed content, content reveal feature, buttons, responsive video embeds, etc.
- More Enjoyable Content Creation: Not having to deal with technical stuff, or having to wait for your updates to load 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.
(Easily create, edit and customize page elements like testimonial boxes, content toggle, table of contents builder, call to action buttons, countdown timers, etc.)
Features
Thrive Content Builder provides WordPress users many features. Here are just some:
- Built-In WordPress Content Functionality Is Preserved: You have access to all of the regular text editing options that you are used to (e.g. underline, centering text, headings, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements: The plugin adds a “drag and drop” list of elements to 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 increase your sales conversions, 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 Web Page Design: Add responsive elements like column layouts, text boxes, section dividers, e.g. which will adjust to display great on different device screens.
- Add Animation Events To Web Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you add animation in buttons, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Landing Page Template Sets
Landing page sets are web page templates that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language to take your visitors from signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages 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 web pages
- 100% conversion-optimized pages
- No technical 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 beautifully designed, web page templates that are conversion-optimized and fully customizable …
(Landing page sets that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language)
There are currently over 30 templates available, with more templates planned for release. In addition to the templates shown above, 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 Landing Page Template
Typically, in order to fully customize a landing page template, you would need to either pay a web site designer 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 overly 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 stunning pre-built web page templates that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change and customize any element of the page …
With the landing page template sets included with this plugin, you are able to:
- Edit text in all headlines, bullet points, buttons, etc.
- Remove text, images or any other component of your landing page
- Change any background images and edit colours
- Edit the color of links, text, buttons, etc.
- Use your own fonts
- Use your own images
- Change content area size
- Change the order of web page elements
- Translate pages into different languages
- Add any kind of custom content in your pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own landing pages from scratch and save them as new page templates.
(Change or customize anything on your page templates)
Transform Your Site Into A Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox Plugin
The Thrive plugin combo also includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully editable two-step opt-in forms and animated objects to your website …
(Add lead capture forms and animation to your sales pages with Thrive Lightbox)
Thrive Lighbox Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A 2-step opt-in process can improve your conversion rates. Visitors click on a button or image, and then they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Opt-in forms can help improve your conversion rates.)
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 graphic elements, or when someone scrolls down to a certain point on the page. You can also use the Event Manager to animate attention-getting elements on your web pages, using a range of effects (e.g. zoom out, slide in from top to bottom, roll out, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your WordPress pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Lightboxes and events are created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over all events, triggers and design.
User Testimonials
Below are some of the testimonials and feedback plugin users have written about 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”
Thrive Content Builder – Useful 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 that was not created with the plugin installed.
You can add shortcodes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will display correctly on your website.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build using Thrive Content Builder.
Product Support
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder 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 well-supported, and users get unlimited updates, plus 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, 30 day, full refund 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 Edition – This lets you use the plugin on 1 domain only. Price includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Licensing – This option allows you to install the plugin on unlimited sites that you own. Cost includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency Licensing – Use on your web sites & on client sites. Includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Note: The price of Thrive Content Builder depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The price above was correct at the time this content was published. This may or may not be the actual pricing set by the software developer when you visit the product site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest pricing details here:
Additional Information
The developers of the Thrive Content and 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 the time-saving benefits of ready-made web page elements and beautiful, conversion-optimized templates that help to speed up content design, and on the other hand, you also have complete control over your design process and the freedom to change and customize anything and everything on your web page, using the plugin’s visual content editor, 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 Thrive plugins website.
Download This Plugin …
If you want to edit something, you click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you can see the change happen immediately. 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 site and create awesome sales pages and content, Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For complete details, visit the plugin website:
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