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 bound to be already building it using WordPress!
In this article you will discover the fastest WYSIWYG editor for WordPress.
Drag & Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Does The WordPress Content Editor Meet All Of Your Page Design Needs?
With so many improvements that the WordPress platform has gone through in recent years, many WordPress users believe that using the built-in WordPress WYSIWYG content editor to create or edit more complex content elements can be quite difficult.
(The default WordPress visual content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing “linear” content, but adding complex page elements can be challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the content shown below …
To add the above to your content would require inserting something that looks like this into the default WordPress editor …
Generally, this is not an issue … unless you have to reconfigure your layout (for example, move some of the content from box 3 into box 2, or replace the background color in a box from green to maroon. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the content editor.
The WordPress visual editor is supposed to give non-technical users an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) content editor, but as you can see, if you are trying to create more complex content elements, what you see in the visual editor may not be the same as 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 cases, some people argue that you could even be better off working with the html source itself instead of the WYSIWYG editor when trying to build complex layouts …
Even though WordPress is very user-friendly, this makes it hard for users without coding skills to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental issue about having to use shortcodes and HTML to create content in WordPress can be summarized by asking two questions:
1) Speed – How long does it take to build a page using this editor?
2) Abstraction – How closely does the content in the editor match the content in the “front end” 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 anything like what you see in the front end. This means that you need to translate mentally what your 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 tabs and performing updates to see how your content is progressing, which interrupts the creative process, as you wait for pages to load.
Many WordPress developers have come up with a range of solutions to try and make content editing more intuitive. Some of these range from standalone 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 content creation easier!)
Some solutions end up requiring so many page-building features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end content editors …
Many of these solutions work, but they still fail to address the fundamental problem with using HTML and shortcodes as described earlier. Adding and editing 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 very frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like to build and edit your content?
Now that you’ve asked this question, imagine the following scenario …
- You see something in the content that needs correction so you, simply click on the content and start typing. Your content is instantly changed.
- You just drag and drop elements around the page, and see them exactly as they will display on the front end without having to mentally translate shortcodes or HTML.
- You have an idea for a specific piece of content you would like to create, so you immediately begin typing, and your web page gets built on the fly, without delays, with no tab switching, and without waiting for new web pages to refresh.
Would this not be the perfect way to build content for your web site? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around your page?
(Imagine being able to create complex page layouts quickly for your web content without 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 And Landing Page Builder – WordPress Click-To-Edit Drag & Drop Content And Landing Page Builder
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive click-to-edit drag-and-drop content builder plugin for WordPress.
Thrive Content Builder is a new and exciting way to speed up the process of creating content on your WordPress website.
Once installed, Thrive Content Builder adds a visual content editor with a menu that lets you drag and drop elements on your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual content editing option to WordPress)
Thrive Content Builder And Landing Pages 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 will take an in-depth look at all of the above plugins and how all of this exciting functionality works seamlessly together to help you easily transform and improve your site and create amazing sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder Plugin
You can easily add complex design layouts to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Every element of your page can be built by dragging and dropping things around the page and then clicking to edit them …
Once elements have been added to a page, you can continue to further edit these without having to go through multiple steps or switching screens …
The built-in Thrive Landing Pages also lets you create highly attractive landing pages that can just as easily be edited or customized …
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages 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 and Landing Pages installed is so amazingly simple, that the developers guarantee that you will 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 fantastic plugin we’ve written about on this site.
See this page to read about the plugin:
Benefits
Here we have listed just a few of the benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up your page design and content creation process:
Be Up And Running In Very Little Time
Thrive Content Builder installs just like every plugin. Just upload it to your Plugin folder via your admin account and activate.
Real-Time Content Building & Editing
Thrive Content Builder is simple and intuitive to use and lets you create and edit 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 content editor – typefaces, elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get in the front end of your site.
Some additional benefits of the plugin include the following:
- Beautiful Page Layouts With Drag And Drop Ease: Create any layout you can imagine with drag-and-drop ease.
- Customizable Elements Included: With Thrive Content Builder you not only get an exciting and an easy-to-use click-to-edit content builder, but the plugin also includes a collection of web design elements that you can add to your layouts without using shortcodes, for e.g.: columns, table of contents builder, call to action buttons, responsive video embeds, etc.
- Ideal For Non-Technical Users: Not having to deal with technical stuff for for your updated content to load frees up your attention and allows you to build the web pages your business needs, quickly and without having to deal with code or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you need done.
(Thrive Content Builder lets you easily insert, edit and customize web page elements like testimonial boxes, content toggle, table of contents builder, section dividers, countdown timers, etc.)
Plugin Features
Thrive Content Builder offers WordPress users a number of powerful features. Below we have listed just a few of these:
- Regular Editor Functionality Is Preserved: You have access to all of the regular text editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold formatting, paragraph formatting, font sizes, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Multi-Style Elements Menu: The plugin adds a “drag and drop” list 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 the effectiveness of your sales pages, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonials, and guarantee forms. In addition to being customizable, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Mobile-Friendly Design: Add responsive columns, boxes, section dividers, e.g. which will display great on all different kinds of devices.
- Add Animation To Web Pages: Thrive Content Builder’s Event Manager feature lets you create animated page content, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – 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 initial signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages gives you conversion-optimized web page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time designing and customizing pages for your site
- 100% conversion-optimized web pages
- No coding skills needed
- Works with all WordPress themes
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages 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 page templates 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 future release. In addition to the available templates, the developers plan to release new templates for email lead generation, sales pages, training pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template Sets
Typically, to be able to fully customize a landing page template, you would need to either pay a web site developer to do the work, or learn how to code web pages 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 mess around with 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 building conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you attractive pre-designed pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change and edit any aspect of your page template …
With the landing page templates included with this plugin, you are able to:
- Modify text in any headline, button, bullet point, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other component of the landing page
- Replace the background image or color
- Change the color of buttons, links, text, etc.
- Choose your own fonts
- Select your own images
- Edit content area size
- Rearrange 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 landing pages from scratch and save them as new web page templates.
(Change and edit anything on your page templates)
Transform Your Web Site Into A Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox
The Thrive package includes Thrive Lightbox, which lets you add fully editable two-step opt-in forms and events to your content pages …
(Add lead capture forms and animated objects to your WordPress website with Thrive Lightbox)
Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process helps to increase your conversion rates. When visitors click on an image or button they are presented with your opt-in form …
(two-step opt-in forms help to improve your conversion rates.)
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 various animation effects (e.g. fade out, slide in from right to left, rotate, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your pages 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.
User Testimonials
Here are some of the testimonials and feedback that 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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“I’m blown away by the plugin. Keep up the incredible, WordPress changing work, guys! Dean Phillips”
Useful Tips
Thrive Content Builder works with any WordPress theme, not just with the Thrive Landing Pages plugin. You cannot use Thrive Content Builder to edit content on pages or posts that were not created with the plugin installed.
You can add WordPress shortcodes inside Thrive Content Builder or Thrive Landing Pages and they will be displayed correctly on the front end.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build with Thrive Content Builder.
Thrive Content Builder Plugin Support
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder provides free updates, new landing pages and upcoming features. The Thrive team is constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive products are really well-supported, and users get unlimited software updates, plus one year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, thirty day, complete refund guarantee.
This is an exciting product for WordPress users that just keeps getting better.
Software 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 Edition – This license enables you to configure the plugin on 1 site only. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This edition allows you to configure the plugin on unlimited sites that you own. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency Licensing – Use on all your web sites & on all your client web sites. Price includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Please Note: Pricing details of the Thrive Content Builder product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The price above was current at the time this content was published. This may or may not be the actual pricing charged by the software author when you visit the site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Plugin Info
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 the time-saving benefits of ready-made web page elements and templates that help to make designing your pages faster, and on the other hand, you have complete control over your design process and the freedom to change and customize anything and everything on your page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, which allows you to see how the content you are working on will display after being published.
For demo videos of the plugin, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive Content Builder website.
Install This Plugin …
If you want to edit something, just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you can see the change happen instantly. 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 additional steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your business online and create awesome sales pages and content, this plugin delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For full details, visit the plugin website here:
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