WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging application into a tool that is now being used to create all kinds of sites.
Whatever you can think of, someone is bound to be already building it using WordPress!
In this article you will discover the fastest way to build stunning content and beautiful page layouts in WordPress.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Is The WordPress Content Editor Still Meeting All Of Your Content Creation And Editing Needs?
Using the WordPress editor to build or edit complex layouts can sometimes be quite challenging, especially for non-technical WordPress users.
(The WordPress WYSIWYG content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional text and media, but adding complex page elements can be challenging!)
For example, let’s say you want to create something like the content shown below …
To create the above boxes with text and buttons, you would need to add shortcodes to your content for each of the page elements you want to display …
Generally, this is not really an issue … until you choose to edit an element in your layout (for example, move part of the content from box 3 into box 2, or change 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 give users an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, but as you can see, if you are trying to add complex content elements, what you see on your editor screen is not exactly what you get …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some cases, some people argue that users could be better off working inside the WordPress html (text) editor tab instead of the visual editor when trying to add fancy layouts …
Even though WordPress is extremely easy to use, this makes it hard for WordPress site owners without coding skills to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental issue with having to use HTML and shortcodes to create content in WordPress can be summarized as follows:
1) Speed – How long does it take to create a page using the 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 screenshot, what you see in the content editor looks nothing like 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 a number of steps before you can begin configuring your page layout, or endlessly going back and forth between browser tabs and performing updates to see how your content is progressing, which interrupts the creative process, as you wait for your page to reload.
A number of WordPress developers have come up with a range of solutions to try and address this issue. Some of these alternative solutions range from standalone WP plugins you can add to your site that add new functionality to the editor, to WP themes that provide built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make creating complex page layouts easier!)
Some solutions combine so many complex page-building features, that users end up 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. Creating, 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 to create or edit complex page layouts quickly, this can start to become quite frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your web content builder to behave?
Now that you’ve asked this question, imagine this …
- You spot something in the content that needs to be corrected so you, simply click on the content and start changing it. Your content is instantly edited.
- You can just drag and drop items around the page, and the page looks exactly as it will display on the front end without having to mentally visualize any HTML or shortcodes.
- You have an idea for some content you’d like to add, so you immediately begin typing, and your page gets built as you go, without delays, no switching of tab browsers, and no waiting for new web content to reload.
Would that not be the perfect 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 ”on the fly” 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 Page Builder
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive WordPress click-to-edit drag and drop content creator.
Thrive Content Builder is a new and exciting way to set up conversion-focused pages on any WordPress site.
Once installed, Thrive Content Builder adds a visual content editor and a sidebar menu that lets you select, then drag and drop design elements on your page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual 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.
Let’s examine each of the above plugins and how these exciting features work together to help you easily transform and improve your business online and create awesome sales pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder – WordPress Plugin
Thrive Content Builder lets you easily add complex design layouts to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Every aspect of your web page can be built with ”click-to-edit” and “drag and drop” ease …
Once elements have been added to the page, you can then further customize these without going through additional steps or switching tabs …
You can also build highly attractive landing pages that can also be easily 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 and Landing Pages installed is so effortlessly easy, that the developers guarantee that you will never look back once you start using it
For more details, visit the plugin site 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 that we have recommended on this site.
See this page to read about the plugin:
Benefits Of Using Thrive Content Builder And Landing Pages
Below we have listed just some of the many benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up the process of creating content for your WordPress web site:
Fast And Easy To Install And Configure. Be Up And Running In Minutes.
Thrive Content Builder is really easy to install. Simply upload it to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Build & Edit Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is really simple to use and lets you create content in real-time.
A Truly Visual Content Builder
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see on the “backend” as you work within the editor – typefaces, elements, page layouts, etc. is exactly what your visitors will see in the front end of your site.
Additional benefits include the following:
- Create Beautiful Page Layouts With Drag-And-Drop Ease: Create any layout you can imagine with drag-and-drop ease.
- Design Elements Included: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get a click-to-edit content builder, but the plugin also includes a jaw-dropping collection of functional and eye-catching design elements that you can customizable and add to your pages without using short codes, such as tabbed content, feature grids, page section dividers, responsive videos, etc.
- Ideal For Non-Technical Users: Not having to deal with technical stuff, or wait for your updates to refresh frees up your attention and allows you to build the pages your business needs, quickly and without having to edit code or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you want done.
(Thrive Content Builder lets you easily create, edit and customize page elements like testimonials, tabbed content, content reveal feature, page section dividers, credit card icons, etc.)
Thrive Content Builder Features
Thrive Content Builder provides many features to web site owners. Below we have listed just a few:
- Regular WordPress Editor Functionality Is Still Available: You have all of the regular text editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold, paragraph centering, 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 creating or editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin includes 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 Design: Add responsive elements like column layouts, text boxes, section dividers, e.g. which will display great on different-sized screens.
- Add Animation Events To Pages: The plugin’s Event Manager feature lets you add animations, 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 all the way from initial signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages plugin gives you access to conversion-optimized page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time creating great-looking pages
- 100% conversion-optimized web page templates
- No web coding skills needed
- Works with any WordPress theme
Thrive Content and Landing Page Builder not only lets you 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 over 30 templates available, with more templates planned for release. In addition to the existing templates, expect to see new templates in the future for email lead generation, sales pages, training pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Customizable Landing Page Template Sets
Typically, to be able to have completely customizable landing page templates, you would need to either hire a web site developer to do the work, or learn how to code web pages 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 building conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you beautiful pre-built 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:
- Modify text in any bullet point, button, headline, etc.
- Remove text, images or any other component of your landing page
- Change all background images or background 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 elements on your page
- Translate everything on the page into a different language
- Add custom content anywhere in any of the pages
- Start with a blank page and create your own page templates, or even build a custom landing page templates library.
(Change or customize any aspect of your page template)
Transform Your Site Into A Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox
The Thrive package includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully customizable two-step opt-in forms and events to your web pages …
(Add opt-in forms and animated elements to your WordPress site with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
2-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process can increase 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)
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 graphic elements, or when someone reaches a certain point on the page. You can also use the Event Manager to animate attention-getting elements on your web pages, using a range of animation effects (e.g. zoom in from the page center, slide in from left to right, roll in, 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.
Testimonials From Customers
Here are some of the testimonials that plugin customers have published about 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”
Useful 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 pages or posts that were not created with the plugin installed.
You can add shortcodes inside Thrive Content Builder or Thrive Landing Pages and they will be displayed correctly when published.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build using Thrive Content Builder.
Plugin Support
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder Plugin provides free updates, new landing pages and upcoming features. The Thrive team is constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive plugins are really well-supported, and users get lifetime software upgrades, and 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, 30 day, 100% money-back guarantee.
This is an exciting product for WordPress users that will just keep getting better.
Plugin 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 option enables you to set up the plugin on 1 domain only. Price includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Licensing – This license option allows you to install the plugin on all web sites that you own. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency License – This license option lets you run the plugin on all of your own web sites and any client websites. Includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Note: Pricing details of the Thrive Content Builder product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Presently, the software sells for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual pricing set by the plugin developer when you visit the product site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for the current pricing information here:
Additional Info
The developers of the Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages 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 page elements and conversion-optimized templates that help to speed up the content creation process, and on the other hand, you have 100% control over your design process and the freedom to change anything and everything on your web page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, which lets you see how the content you are working on will display to visitors when published.
For ”how to” videos showing plugin usage, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive Content Builder website.
Download The Plugin …
If you want to edit something, you 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, simply drag it and drop it into its new position. There are no extra steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your website and create amazing sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content, Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For complete details, check out the plugin here:
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