WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging application into a tool that can be used to design all types of pages – marketing pages, portfolio pages, business pages, etc.
Whatever you can think of, someone is bound to be already building it with WordPress!
This article will help you discover the fastest and easiest to use visual content editor for your WordPress web site.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Editor – Is There A Better Option For Designing Pages In WordPress?
With so many advancements that WordPress has undergone in recent years, many WordPress users and developers feel that using the default WordPress content editor to build or edit complex layouts can sometimes be quite challenging.
(The WordPress visual content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional content, but adding complex layouts can be quite challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the layout shown below …
To create the above boxes with text and buttons in your content would require inserting something like this into your WordPress content editor …
Normally, this is not really an issue … until you need to edit something in the layout (for example, move some of the content from box 3 into box 2, or change the button in box 3 from bright red to blue. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code.
The WordPress visual 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 working with more complex content elements, what you see in the WordPress visual editor may not be what you are getting when the web page goes live …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some instances, users would probably be better off working directly with the source html itself instead of the WordPress WYSIWYG editor when trying to create something other than simple page elements …
Even though WordPress is extremely easy to use, this makes it difficult for WordPress site owners without knowledge of HTML or CSS to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental challenge about having to use shortcodes and HTML to create content in the default WordPress visual editor can be summarized by asking the following questions:
1) Speed – How long will it take to build 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 screenshot, what you see in the editor does not look even remotely similar to what you see in the front end. This means that you have to translate mentally 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 switching tabs and performing tweaks and updates to see how your content is progressing, which then impacts how quickly you can create your content, as you wait for your content to reload.
A number of WordPress web developers have come up with different solutions to try and address this issue. Some of these solutions range from standalone 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 end up combining so many complex page design features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these solutions work, but they don’t really seem to address the fundamental issue of using shortcodes and HTML as described earlier. Creating, 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 page layouts quickly, this can become very frustrating after a while.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like to build and edit your web pages?
Now, visualize this …
- You see something in your content that needs to be changed so you, just click on the content and start typing. Your content has been instantly fixed.
- You can just 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 any shortcodes or HTML.
- You have an idea for a specific item of content that you’d like to add, so you immediately start typing, and your page gets built as you go, with no delays, no switching tabs, and without having to wait for pages to reload.
Would that not be the ideal way to create content for your WordPress web site? A true WYSIWYG content builder where all you have to do is click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the page?
(Imagine being able to create complex page layouts 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 Simplest, Most Intuitive WYSIWYG Editor For WordPress Web Sites
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive WordPress click-to-edit drag and drop content editing plugin.
Thrive Content Builder is a new and incredibly easy way to speed up the process of adding content to your WordPress website.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor with a sidebar menu that lets you drag and drop elements on your page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content builder to your WordPress site)
Thrive Content Builder And Landing Pages 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.
In this article we’ll take a look at all of the above and how these powerful features work seamlessly together to help you easily transform and improve your web site and create awesome sales pages and content.
Thrive Content Builder Plugin For WordPress
With this plugin installed easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Everything on your page can be configured by ”clicking-to-edit” and “dragging and dropping” things around the page …
Once you have placed elements on the page, you can then continue to edit or customize these without having to go through multiple steps or opening new configuration screens …
The built-in Landing Pages editor also lets you 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, designing pages and working on content with Thrive Content Builder installed is so effortlessly simple, that the developers warn that you’ll never look back once you start using it
Go here to learn more about the plugin: Thrive Content Builder
The integrated Thrive Content Builder plugin was created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another amazing plugin we’ve previously written about on this site.
See this article to read more about the plugin:
Benefits Of Using Thrive Content Builder And Landing Pages Plugin
Below are just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up your page design and content creation process:
Ready To Go To Work In Very Little Time
Thrive Content Builder is really easy to install. Simply upload a zip folder that contains the plugin files to your Plugins folder via your admin account and activate.
Real-Time Content Content Creation
Thrive Content Builder is is not only really simple and intuitive to use, it also lets you create, edit and add content right inside your web pages in real-time.
A Truly Visual Editor
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see on the “back-end” as you work within the editor – typefaces, elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get in the front end of your site.
Additional benefits and advantages include:
- Beautiful Page Layouts With Drag-And-Drop Ease: Create any kind of layout you can imagine with drag and drop ease.
- Design Elements Included: With Thrive Content Builder you not only get an exciting and simple-to-use click-to-edit content builder, but the plugin also includes a collection of design elements that you can insert into your content layouts without using short codes, for e.g.: content toggle, feature grids, call to action buttons, responsive Google maps, etc.
- More Enjoyable Content Creation: Not having to deal with technical stuff for the updated content 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.
(Easily add, edit and customize web page elements like testimonials, flat design elements, star ratings for review pages, section dividers, responsive video embeds, etc.)
Features
Thrive Content Builder provides site owners many features. Here are just some:
- Built-In Editor Functionality Is Still Available: You have access to all of the regular WordPress editing options that you are used to (e.g. underlines, paragraph formatting, font sizes, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Multi-Style Elements: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” table of elements available on your post or page screen when 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 guarantee forms. In addition to customization options, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Responsive Element 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 Pages: Thrive Content Builder’s Event Manager feature lets you create animated images, 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 from signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages gives you access to conversion-optimized page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time building great-looking pages
- 100% conversion-optimized page templates
- No web coding skills needed
- Works with all themes
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder not only can be used to create beautiful-looking content in your WordPress posts and pages, but you can also choose from dozens of beautifully designed, conversion optimized web page templates and fully customizable …
(Landing page template sets that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language)
There are currently over thirty templates available, with more templates planned for future 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.
Fully Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template Sets
Typically, to be able to have a completely customizable landing page template, you would need to either hire a web site designer 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 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 stunning pre-built page templates that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change and customize anything on the page …
The landing page template sets included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Change text in all bullet points, buttons, headlines, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other component of the landing page
- Change the background image or background colours
- 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 page elements
- Translate pages into a different language
- Add any kind of custom content inside the pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own landing pages from scratch and save them as new page templates.
(Change and customize any aspect of your page)
Transform Your Site Into A Powerful Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox Plugin
The Thrive plugin package also includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully customizable 2-step opt-in forms and events to your pages …
(Add lead capture forms and animated elements to your pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox 2-Step Opt-in Forms
A 2-step opt-in process helps 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 increase your conversion rates.)
Thrive Lightbox Event Manager
An “event” consists of a trigger and an action. You can make opt-in forms 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 attention-getting elements on your pages, using a range of effects (e.g. fade out, slide in from top to bottom, roll out, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your WordPress website 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.
Testimonials From Customers
Below are a couple of the testimonials and comments that plugin users have written about Thrive Content Builder:
”You guys are simply awesome I am loving everything you are doing at the moment. Keep up the great work you really are making such a big difference in this field. Jule Fuller”
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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”
Plugin Tips
Thrive Content Builder works with any WordPress theme, not just with Thrive Landing Pages. You cannot use Thrive Content Builder to edit content on existing pages or posts that were not created with the plugin.
You can add shortcodes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will be displayed correctly when published.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content built with Thrive Content Builder.
Support
Thrive Content and Landing Page 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 really well-supported, and users get unlimited upgrades, plus 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 30 day, 100% money-back guarantee.
This is an exciting product that will just keep getting better.
Plugin Price
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 edition allows you to set up the plugin on one domain only. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License Edition – This allows you to set up the plugin on unlimited domains that you own. Pricing includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency License Edition – Use on your sites & on client websites. It 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 special offers. When we last checked, the software is being retailed for the pricing shown above. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the software developer when you visit the website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Plugin Information
The developers of the Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder plugin 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 web page elements and templates that help speed up page design and content creation, and on the other hand, you also have complete control over the design process and the freedom to change everything on your web page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, which lets you see exactly how the content you are working on will look on the “front end” after publishing.
For demo videos of the plugin in action, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive Content Builder website.
We Highly Recommend This …
If you want to edit something, just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you’ll see the change happen immediately. 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 extra steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your site and create awesome sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging 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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