WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool to a tool being used to design all types of web pages – marketing pages, portfolio pages, local business pages, etc.
Whatever you can imagine, somewhere around the world someone is bound to be already building it using WordPress!
In this article you will discover the simplest visual editor for your WordPress website.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Is The WordPress Editor Still Meeting All Of Your Page Design Needs?
With all the rapid improvements that WordPress has gone through in recent years, many WordPress developers and users believe that using the WordPress WYSIWYG editor to create or edit complex content elements can be quite challenging.
(The WordPress visual content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional text and media, but adding complex layouts can be quite challenging!)
For example, if you look at the image below …
Adding the above boxes with text and buttons would require inserting something like this inside your WordPress visual editor …
Generally, this is not really an issue … until you need to reconfigure your layout (for example, move some of the content from box 3 into box 2, or change the background colour in a box from red to gold. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the content editor.
The WordPress visual content editor is supposed to provide users with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG content editor, but as you can see, if you are trying to add more complex page 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 cases, some people argue that you could be better off working inside the text editor tab instead of the WordPress WYSIWYG editor when trying to add complex layouts …
Even though WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platform available, this makes it difficult for non-technical users to fully manage their own content.
The fundamental problem of using shortcodes and HTML to create content in the default WordPress editor can be summarized by asking the following questions:
1) Speed – How long does it take to create a page using the editor?
2) Abstraction – How closely does the content in the ”back end” match 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 back end does not look at all like what you see in the front end. This means that users need to abstract what the content will look like when working with complex layouts. Other solutions require taking a number of steps before you can start configuring your page layout, or endlessly switching browser tabs and performing tweaks and updates to see how your content is progressing, which can interrupt the creative process, as you wait for for your updated content to refresh.
Many WordPress developers have come up with various solutions aiming to make the visual editor more intuitive. These range from WP plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to themes that include built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make creating complex layouts easier!)
Some solutions include so many page design features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these solutions work, but they don’t really address the fundamental problem with using shortcodes and HTML as described earlier. Creating and adding sophisticated content elements 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 web pages to look ”perfect” quickly, this can become really frustrating after a while.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your page builder to work?
Now, imagine the following scenario …
- You look at your content and if you see something that needs to be fixed, just click on the content and start changing it. Your content is instantly changed.
- You can just drag and drop items on the page, and see them exactly as they will appear on the front end without having to mentally abstract from shortcodes or HTML.
- You have an idea for a specific 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 tabs, and without having to wait for pages to reload.
Would this not be the perfect way to create content for your WordPress website? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around your posts and pages?
(Imagine being able to create complex pages in real-time 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 – The Fastest Way To Create Stunning Content In WordPress
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a ground-breaking plugin for WordPress that lets website owners quickly add amazing content to WordPress posts and 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, Thrive Content Builder adds a visual content editor and an item menu that lets you click, then drag and drop design elements on your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content editing option to your WordPress site)
The Thrive Content And Page Builder plugin 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.
We will take a look at all of the above plugins and how all of this functionality works together to help you transform and improve your web site and create awesome sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder – Click-To-Edit Drag & Drop Content Builder For WordPress
This plugin lets you easily add content to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Every element of your web page can be configured using “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” …
Once elements have been added to your page, you can then continue to edit or customize these without going through multiple steps or switching screens …
The built-in Thrive Landing Pages also lets you create highly attractive landing pages that can also be easily edited …
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 and working on content with the plugin installed is so effortlessly simple, that the developers warn that you’ll never look at creating and adding content the same way once you start using it
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 excellent plugin we’ve reviewed on this site.
To learn more about using this plugin, go here:
Plugin Benefits
Here we have listed just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up the process of designing pages and creating content for your site:
Quick And Easy To Install And Configure. Ready To Go To Work In Minutes.
Thrive Content Builder installs like any other plugin. Simply upload it to your Plugin folder via your WordPress dashboard and activate.
Real-Time Content Content Editing
Thrive Content Builder is is not only very simple to use, it also lets you edit and build content in real-time.
A Truly Visual Content Editor
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see on the “back-end” as you work within the editor – fonts, visual elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get on the front end of your site.
Additional benefits and advantages include the following:
- Beautiful Web Page Layouts With Drag And Drop Ease: Create any kind of layout you can imagine with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality.
- Customizable Elements Included: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get an exciting and an easy-to-use click-to-edit WordPress content builder, but the plugin also includes an impressive collection of professional design elements that you can insert into your pages without using short codes, for e.g.: tabbed content, table of contents builder, dividers, credit card icons, etc.
- More Enjoyable Content Creation: Not having to deal with technical stuff for pages to reload frees up your attention and allows you to be more focused while you build or edit your content or click through multiple steps to get what you want done.
(Create, edit and customize web page elements like testimonials, flat design elements, feature grids, buttons, responsive videos, etc.)
Plugin Features
Thrive Content Builder provides a number of features to site owners. Here are just a few of these:
- Regular Editor Functionality Is Preserved: You have access to all of the regular WordPress text editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold, paragraph formatting, heading styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements Menu: The plugin adds a “drag and drop” table of elements to your post or page screen when creating or editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin comes with a range of eye-catching and customizable elements that will help increase the effectiveness of your sales pages, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonial boxes, and guarantees. In addition to being customizable, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Responsive Element Design: Add mobile-friendly columns, text boxes, content dividers, e.g. which will display correctly on different-sized screens.
- Add Animation Events To Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you create animated page elements, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Web Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Landing Page Templates
Thrive Landing Pages provides sets of templates that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language to take your visitors from initial signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages plugin lets you easily add conversion-optimized pages to your website)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time designing landing pages for your WordPress website
- 100% conversion-optimized page templates
- No web coding skills required
- Works with all 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 30+ templates available, with more templates planned for release. 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.
Completely Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template
Normally, to be able to have fully customizable landing page templates, 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 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 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 building conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you attractive pre-designed web pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change and edit any aspect of your page templates …
With the landing page template sets included with this plugin, you are able to:
- Edit text in any button, headline, bullet point, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other element of your landing page
- Change the background image or colours
- Change the color of text, buttons, links, etc.
- Select your own fonts
- Use your own images and graphics
- Modify content area size
- Rearrange the order of web page elements
- Translate everything on the page into different languages
- Add any type 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 and edit any aspect of your page)
Transform Your Site Into A Powerful Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox Plugin
The Thrive package also includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully customizable two-step opt-in forms and events to your web site …
(Add opt-in forms and animated elements to your pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process helps improve your conversion rates. When visitors click on an image or button they are presented with your opt-in form …
(When visitors click on the button, they are presented with an opt-in form)
Thrive Lightbox Event Manager
An “event” consists of a trigger and an action. You can make opt-in forms appear when your visitor clicks or hovers 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 page, using a range of animation effects (e.g. zoom in from the page center, slide in from top to bottom, roll out, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your WordPress website with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
A lightbox and event is created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over your events, triggers and design.
Feedback From Plugin Users
Below are a few of the testimonials that plugin users have published about Thrive Content Builder:
“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 on pages or posts that were not created using the plugin.
You can add short codes inside Thrive Content Builder or Thrive Landing Pages and they will display correctly on on your web site.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content built with Thrive Content Builder.
Support
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder comes with free updates, new landing templates and upcoming features. The plugin developers are constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive plugins are really well-supported, and users get unlimited software updates, and one year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, thirty day, 100% money-back guarantee.
This is an exciting product that will just keep getting better.
Plugin 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 Edition – This enables you to configure the plugin on a single website. Price includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Edition – This license allows you to use the plugin on all websites that you own. Price includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency License Edition – Use on all your sites & on client web sites. It includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Cost = $247.00 per year.
Note: Pricing for the product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Currently, the product is being retailed for the prices shown above. This may or may not be the actual pricing charged by the plugin 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 current pricing details:
Additional Info
The Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages plugin developers 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 the time-saving benefits of ready-made web page elements and template sets that help make designing your content faster, and on the other hand, you have 100% control over your design process and the freedom to change anything and everything on your page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, that allows you to see exactly how the content you are working on will appear when published.
For a demo video showing how the software works, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the plugin website.
Our Recommendation …
If you want to edit something, you just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, do it, and you can see the change happen immediately. If you want to move something, all you need to do is simply drag it and drop it into its new location. There are no extra 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 more information, check out the plugin here:
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