WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool into a tool being used to create all types of sites.
Whatever you can imagine, somewhere around the world someone is most likely already building it using WordPress!
In this article you will discover the simplest way to create stunning content in WordPress.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Content Editor – Is There An Easier Way To Create Web Pages In WordPress?
With so many improvements that WordPress has undergone in recent years, many WordPress users believe that the WordPress editor is now lagging behind all other developments being made to the software.
(The built-in WordPress WYSIWYG editor is great for adding, formatting and editing “linear” text and images, but adding complex content elements can be challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the content shown below …
Adding the above page elements would require adding something like this in the default WordPress visual content editor …
Generally, this is not an issue … unless you choose to change your layout (for example, move some of the content from box 3 into box 2, or replace the button inside a box from red to yellow. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code.
The WordPress content editor is supposed to be an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, but as you can see, when working with complex content elements, often what you see on your editor screen may not be 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 could even be better off working directly with the source html itself instead of the WordPress WYSIWYG editor when trying to create complex layouts …
Even though WordPress is extremely easy to use, this makes it difficult for WordPress users with no coding skills to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental issue with 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 editor match the “front end” content when you are creating or editing a page?
As you can see from the above image, what you see when working in the back end looks nothing like what you see in the front end. This means that you need to mentally translate what your content will look like when working with sophisticated layouts. Other solutions require multiple steps before you can begin configuring your page layout, or endlessly going back and forth between browser tabs and performing tweaks and updates to see how your content is progressing, which interrupts the creative process, as you wait for your content to reload.
Many WordPress web developers have come up with a range of solutions with the objective of addressing this issue. Some of these range from standalone WP plugins you can install on your site that add new functionality to the editor, to themes that offer 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 page design features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these editors work fine, but they still don’t address the fundamental problem with using HTML and shortcodes 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 your page content to look ”perfect” quickly, this can start to become very frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like to build and edit your web content?
Now that you’ve asked this question, imagine this …
- You see something in the content that needs to be changed so you, simply click on the content and start editing it. Your content is instantly edited.
- You can drag and drop elements around the page, and the page looks exactly as it will display on the front end without having to mentally translate code.
- You have an idea for a specific piece of content you would like to add, so you just start typing, and your page gets built on the fly, with no delays, without tab switching, and no waiting for pages to resave and reload.
Would that not be the ideal way to create content for your WordPress website? A true visual editor where all you have to do is click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the posts and pages?
(Imagine being able to create complex web pages 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 – The Simplest And Most Straight-Forward WYSIWYG Content Builder For WordPress Web Sites
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive click-to-edit drag and drop content and landing page editing plugin for WordPress.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin 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 with a menu that lets you select, then drag and drop design elements to your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content editor to WordPress)
The Thrive Landing Pages And Content 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’ll examine all of the above and how these powerful features work together to help you transform and improve your business online and create awesome marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder
You can easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Everything on your page can be configured and edited by dragging and dropping things around the page and then clicking to edit them …
Once elements have been added to a page, you can then customize them without having to go through multiple steps or switching tabs …
You can also build stunning landing pages and easily customize these …
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages is simple, easy to use, and ideal for all WordPress users at all levels. In fact, working on content with the Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages plugin installed is so amazingly easy, that the developers guarantee that you’ll never look back once you start using it
Learn more about this plugin here: Thrive Content Builder
Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages were created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another terrific plugin for WordPress we’ve previously recommended on this site.
Go here to read about this plugin:
Plugin Benefits
Below we have listed just a few of the benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up content creation:
Be Up And Running In No Time
Thrive Content Builder is very easy to install. Just upload the plugin file to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Real-Time Content Content Editing
Thrive Content Builder is really simple and intuitive to use and lets you create and edit content in real-time.
A Truly Visual Editor
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see on the “backend” as you work within the editor – typefaces, visual elements, page layouts, etc. is exactly what you get on the front end of your site.
Additional benefits of using the plugin include:
- Attractive 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 an exciting and easy-to-use drag and drop WordPress content editor, but the plugin also includes a collection of functional and attractive design elements that you can insert into your web pages without using short codes, for e.g.: tabbed content, table of contents builder, section dividers, responsive Google map embeds, etc.
- Ideal For Non-Technical Users: Not having to constantly switch tabs as you edit content and then wait for your content to reload 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 want done.
(Add, edit and customize web page elements like testimonials, columns, star ratings for review pages, section dividers, responsive maps, etc.)
Plugin Features
Thrive Content Builder provides WP users a number of great features. Here are just a few of these:
- All 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 centering, headings, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements Menu: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” list of multi-style elements available on your post or page screen for creating and editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin includes a range of eye-catching and customizable elements that will help you increase the effectiveness of your sales pages, 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 Element Design: Add mobile-friendly elements like columns, text boxes, content section dividers, e.g. which will display correctly on different screens.
- Add Animation Events To Your Web Pages: Thrive Content Builder’s Event Manager feature lets you create animation in images, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Landing Page Templates
Landing page template sets are web templates that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language to take your visitors all the way from initial signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages plugin lets you add conversion-optimized web pages to your website)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time and money designing stunning pages
- 100% conversion-optimized landing page templates
- No web coding skills required
- Works with any WordPress theme
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 professionally designed, conversion optimized page templates 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 thirty templates available, with more templates planned for release. In addition to the existing templates, 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, in order to fully customize landing page templates, you would need to either pay a web site developer 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 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 edit anything on the page template …
The landing page templates included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Change text in all bullet points, buttons, headlines, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other element of the landing page
- Replace the background image and edit color
- Edit the color of text, buttons, links, etc.
- Use your own fonts
- Use your own images
- Modify the size of the content area
- Change the order of web page elements
- Translate pages into different languages
- Add any kind of custom content anywhere inside your pages
- Start with a blank page and create your own templates, or even build your own custom landing pages library.
(Change and customize any element of the page template)
Thrive Lightbox Plugin – Transform Your WordPress Website Into A Marketing Machine
The Thrive plugin package includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully editable 2-step opt-in forms and animated objects to your web pages …
(Add opt-in forms and animation to your pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
2-Step Opt-in Forms
A 2-step opt-in process can increase your conversion rates. Visitors click on an image or button, and then they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Capture more leads and subscribers with a two-step opt-in process)
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 various effects (e.g. fade in, slide in from top to bottom, roll out, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your sales 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.
Feedback From Users
Below are a few of the testimonials and comments that plugin users have provided for the Thrive Content Builder plugin:
”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 theme in WordPress, not just with Thrive Landing Pages. Note, however, that you cannot use Thrive Content Builder to edit content that was not created with the plugin.
You can add WordPress short codes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will display correctly on on your site.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content built with Thrive Content Builder.
Support
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages 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 upgrades, and 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 30 day, complete refund guarantee.
This is an exciting product for WordPress users that just keeps getting better.
Product Licensing Cost
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 Licensing – This edition lets you activate the plugin on one website only. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This license lets you use the plugin on all domains that you personally own. Pricing includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency Licensing – This enables you to configure the plugin on all of your own sites and all client websites. Includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Note: Current pricing for the product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Currently, the product is selling for the prices shown above. This may not be the actual pricing set by the software developer when you visit the product website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Information
The Thrive Content and Page Builder plugin developers repeatedly 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 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 ability to change everything on your web page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, that lets you work unhindered by overly complicated steps.
For a demo video of the plugin in action, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive Content Builder website.
The Bottom Line …
If you want to edit something, just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you will see the change happen instantly. If you want to move something, simply drag it and drop it into its new position. There are no unnecessary steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your web presence and create awesome sales pages and engaging content, Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For more information, visit the plugin website here:
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