WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool into a tool that can be used to create all types of web sites.
Whatever you can imagine, someone is bound to be already building it using WordPress!
In this article you will discover the most intuitive WYSIWYG content builder for WordPress.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Does The Default WordPress WYSIWYG Editor Still Meet All Of Your Page Design Needs?
Using the default WordPress editor to create or edit complex page layouts can be challenging.
(The WordPress visual content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing “linear” text and images, but adding more complex content elements can be quite challenging!)
For example, if you look at the screenshot below …
Creating the above page elements in a page would require inserting something like this into the WordPress editor …
Normally, this is not really an issue … unless you choose to change your layout (for example, move part of the content from box 1 into box 2, or replace the button inside a box from green to orange. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code.
The WordPress visual editor is supposed to provide non-technical users with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor, but as you can see, if you are creating with more complex layouts, often what you see in the visual editor 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 with the source html 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 difficult for non-technical users to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental problem about using HTML and shortcodes to create content with WordPress can be summarized by asking 2 questions:
1) Speed – How long does it take to create a web page using the editor?
2) Abstraction – How closely does the content in the ”back end” resemble the “front end” content when you are creating or editing a page?
As you can see from the above, what you see when working in the editor doesn’t look even remotely similar to what you see in the front end. This means that users need to mentally translate what the content will look like when working with sophisticated layouts. Other solutions require taking a number of steps before you can start 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 can impact how fast you can create your content, as you wait for the content to load.
Many WordPress web developers have come up with different solutions with the goal of addressing this issue. Some of these range from stand alone WP plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to WordPress themes that provide 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-building features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end content editors …
Many of these editors work fine, but they fail 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 really frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your web content editor to work?
Now, visualize this …
- You look at your content and if you spot something that needs to be fixed, just click on the content and start editing it. Your content is then instantly changed.
- You can just 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 code.
- You have an idea for some content you’d like to create, so you simply begin typing, and your page gets built on the fly, without delays, no switching tabs, and no waiting for edits to reload.
Would this not be the ideal way to build content for your site? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the pages and posts?
(Imagine being able to create complex pages quickly 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 And Landing Page Builder – Click-To-Edit Drag And Drop Content Creation Plugin For WordPress
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a ground-breaking WordPress plugin that lets you easily add amazing content to your posts and pages using a powerful click-to-edit and drag and drop content editor.
Thrive Content Builder 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 click, then drag and drop elements to your page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content builder to your WordPress site)
Thrive Landing Pages And Content Builder 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 exciting features work together to help you easily transform and improve your web site and create awesome sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder – WordPress Plugin
With the Thrive Content Builder plugin, you can easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Every element of your page can be created by ”clicking-to-edit” and “dragging and dropping” things around the page …
Once you have positioned elements on your page, you can then easily customize or edit these without having to go through multiple steps or switching tabs …
The built-in functionality of the plugin also lets you build beautiful 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 web pages and working on content with the plugin installed is so amazingly simple, that the developers guarantee that once you start using it, you’ll never look back!
For more details, visit the plugin site here: Thrive Content Builder
The integrated Thrive Content and Page Builder plugin was created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another excellent plugin we’ve reviewed on this site.
For more information about the plugin, see this page:
Benefits Of Using Thrive Content Builder
Below are just a few of the benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up content creation:
Quick And Simple To Install And Use. Ready To Go To Work In Minutes.
Thrive Content Builder is quite easy to install. Just upload it to your Plugins folder via your admin user section and activate.
Edit And Create Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is is not only simple and intuitive to use, it also lets you build content in real-time.
What You See Is Truly What You Get
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see as you work within the content editor – fonts, elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get on the front end of your site.
Additional benefits and advantages include the following:
- Stunning Layouts With Drag-And-Drop Ease: Create any layout you can imagine with drag-and-drop ease.
- Design Elements Included: With Thrive Content Builder you not only get an exciting and an easy-to-use click-to-edit WordPress content builder, but the plugin also includes a very decent collection of professional design elements that you can customizable and add to your web pages without using shortcodes, for e.g.: pricing tables, table of contents builder, testimonials, code insert boxes, etc.
- Ideal For Non-Technical Users: Not having to deal with technical stuff, or wait for for your updated content to refresh frees up your attention and allows you to build the web pages your business needs, quickly and without having to edit code or click through multiple steps to get what you need done.
(Create, edit and customize page elements like testimonial boxes, flat design elements, table of contents builder, section dividers, custom HTML and CSS, etc.)
Plugin Features
Thrive Content Builder offers many powerful features to site owners. Here are just a few of these:
- Built-In WordPress Content Functionality Is Still Available: You have access to all of the built-in WordPress editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold, paragraph formatting, font styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements: The plugin adds a “drag and drop” table of elements to your post or page screen when editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin includes a range of eye-catching and customizable elements that will help you 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 responsive elements like column layouts, text boxes, content section dividers, e.g. which will resize and display correctly on different device screens.
- Add Animation To Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you insert animated buttons, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages – 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 web pages to your site)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Everything is hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time and money designing great-looking pages
- 100% conversion-optimized web pages
- No coding skills required
- Works with any theme
Thrive Content and Landing Page 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, landing page templates that are conversion-optimized and fully customizable …
(Landing page template sets that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language)
There are currently 30+ templates available, with more templates scheduled for future release. In addition to the templates shown above, the developers plan to release new templates for email lead generation, sales pages, lesson pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Completely Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template Sets
Normally, in order to fully customize 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 mess around with 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 stunning pre-designed web page templates 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 template sets included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Change text in all headlines, buttons, bullet points, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other element of the landing page
- Replace all background images or background colours
- Edit the color of buttons, links, text, etc.
- Choose your own fonts
- Use your own images and graphics
- Modify the size of the content area
- Change the order of elements on the pages
- Translate pages into different languages
- Add custom content inside your pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own web pages from scratch and save them as new web page templates.
(Change or edit anything on the page template)
Transform Your Website Into A Powerful Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox Plugin
The Thrive plugin package includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully configurable 2-step opt-in forms and animated elements to your WordPress site …
(Add opt-in forms and animated objects to your WordPress web site with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox 2-Step Opt-in Forms
A 2-step opt-in process helps increase your conversion rates. When visitors click on a button or image they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Capture more leads and subscribers with a two-step opt-in process)
Thrive Lightbox 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 their mouse 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 images on your page, using a range of effects (e.g. zoom in, slide in from top to bottom, roll out, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your WordPress pages with Thrive Lightbox)
Lightboxes and events are created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over the events, triggers and design.
User Feedback
Here are a few of the testimonials plugin customers have submitted for 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”
Plugin Tips
Thrive Content Builder works with any theme in WordPress, 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 with the plugin installed.
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 using Thrive Content Builder.
Thrive Content Builder Support
Thrive Content and Page Builder comes with 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 upgrades, 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 will just keep getting better.
Product 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 – This license enables you to configure the plugin on a single site. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This edition lets you configure the plugin on all of your personal domains. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency Licensing – This edition enables you to configure the plugin on all of your own websites and all client domains. It includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Note: Pricing details of Thrive Content Builder depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Currently, the plugin is selling for the prices shown above. This may or may not be the actual price set by the plugin developer when you visit the website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest pricing here:
Additional Information
The Thrive Content and Landing Page Builder 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 beautiful, conversion-optimized template sets that help speed up your content creation, and on the other hand, you have complete control over the design process and the ability to edit anything and everything on your page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, which allows you to get things done without having to go through multiple steps.
For a demo video showing how the plugin works, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the plugin website.
The Bottom Line …
If you want to edit something, just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, do it, and you can see the change happen instantly. If you want to move something, all you need to do is 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 amazing marketing 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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