WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool into a tool being used to design all types of pages – direct sales pages, portfolio pages, local business pages, etc.
Whatever you can think of, someone is probably already building it using WordPress!
In this article you will discover the ultimate click-to-edit front end visual content builder for WordPress web sites.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
The WordPress Visual Editor – Is There An Easier Way To Create Web Pages In WordPress?
Using the WordPress WYSIWYG content editor to build or edit sophisticated page elements can be difficult.
(The built-in WordPress content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing “linear” content, but adding more complex content elements can be quite challenging!)
For example, if you look at the illustration below …
To create the above in your content would require inserting something that looks like this inside your default WordPress visual content editor …
Typically, this is not an issue … until you have to reconfigure your layout (for example, move some of the content from box 1 into box 2, or replace the background color in a box from green to blue. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code.
The WordPress visual content editor is supposed to provide users with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, but as you can see, if you are creating with more complex content elements, often what you see on your screen may not be the same as what you are going to get when the page is published …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some situations, users could even be better off working directly inside the WordPress text editor tab instead of the WordPress WYSIWYG editor when trying to add fancy page elements …
Even though WordPress is very user-friendly, this makes it hard for WordPress users without coding skills to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental challenge of having to use shortcodes and HTML to create content in the default WordPress WYSIWYG editor can be summarized by asking the following 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 in the editor looks nothing like what you see in the front end. This means that you have to mentally translate what the content will look like when working with complex layouts. Other solutions require taking 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 tried to come up with various solutions to try and make the visual editor more intuitive. These range from stand alone WP plugins you can install on your site that add new functionality to the editor, to WordPress themes that include built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make creating complex page layouts easier!)
Some solutions end up combining so many page design features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these solutions work fine, but they fail to address the fundamental challenge of using HTML and shortcodes as described earlier. Creating and adding 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 layouts quickly, this can start to become really frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like to build and edit your content?
Now, visualize the following scenario …
- You look at your content and if you spot something that needs changing, simply click on the content and start typing. Your content has been instantly changed.
- You can just drag and drop elements around the page, and the page looks exactly as it will appear on the front end without having to mentally translate any HTML or shortcodes.
- You have an idea for a specific piece of content that you would like to create, so you immediately begin typing, and you build your web page as you go, with no delays, without switching of tab browsers, and without having to wait for new web content to reload.
Would this not be the ideal way to create content for your site? Just click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the posts and pages?
(Imagine being able to create complex web page layouts ”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 Builder
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive WordPress click-to-edit drag and drop content creation tool.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin is a new and exciting way to set up conversion-focused pages on any WordPress website.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor with a sidebar menu that lets you drag and drop design elements to your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual content editing option to WordPress)
The plugin 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.
In this article we’ll take a look at all of the above and how all of this exciting functionality works seamlessly together to help you easily transform and improve your site and create awesome marketing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder For WordPress
With this plugin installed easily add content to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Every element on your web page can be designed using simple “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” …
Once elements have been added to the page, you can then easily edit or customize these without going through multiple steps or switching tabs …
You can also work inside stunning landing pages that can also be easily edited …
Thrive Content and Landing Page Builder is simple, easy to use, and ideal for all WordPress users at all levels. In fact, designing pages with Thrive Content Builder installed is so effortlessly easy, that the developers guarantee 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 and Landing Pages plugin was created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another excellent plugin we’ve previously reviewed on this site.
To learn more about this plugin, see this post:
Benefits Of Using Thrive Landing Pages And Content Builder
Here are just some of the many benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up your page design and content creation process:
Quick And Easy To Install And Implement. Be Up And Running In Minutes.
Thrive Content Builder is very easy to install. Just upload it to your Plugin folder via your admin section and activate.
Build And Edit Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is is not only very simple and intuitive to use, it also lets you edit and add content to your web pages in real-time.
What You See Is Really What You Get
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see as you work within the content editor – fonts, visual elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what your visitors will see in the front end of your site.
Additional benefits include the following:
- Eye-Catching Layouts With Drag-And-Drop Ease: Create any layout you can imagine with drag and drop ease.
- Add Customizable Elements With No Shortcodes Required: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get an amazing drag and drop content builder, but the plugin also includes a very decent collection of web design elements that you can customizable and add to your layouts without using shortcodes, for e.g.: columns, styled lists, section dividers, Google Map embeds, etc.
- Distraction-Free Content Creation: Not having to deal with technical stuff, or wait for the new 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 want done.
(Create, edit and customize web page elements like testimonial boxes, tabbed content, feature grids, section dividers, code insert boxes, etc.)
Features
Thrive Content Builder provides many unique features to website owners. Here are just some:
- Regular WordPress Content 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, heading styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” table of elements available on your post or page screen when creating and editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin comes with various eye-catching and customizable elements that will help increase your sales conversions, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonial boxes, and guarantee forms. In addition to being customizable, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Mobile-Friendly Design: Add responsive columns, guarantee boxes, section dividers, e.g. which will resize and display correctly on different device screens.
- Add Animation To Your Web Pages: Thrive Content Builder’s Event Manager feature lets you insert 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 page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time and money building and customizing web pages
- 100% conversion-optimized landing pages
- No web coding skills required
- Works with any WordPress theme
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages not only can be used to create beautiful content in your WordPress posts and pages, but you can also choose from dozens of beautifully designed, 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 30+ templates available, with more templates being worked on. In addition to the templates shown above, expect to see new templates in the future for email lead generation, sales pages, lesson pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template Sets
Normally, in order to fully customize landing page templates, 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 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 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 creating conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you attractive pre-designed web pages that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that lets you change or edit any aspect of your page …
With the landing page templates included with this plugin, you can do the following:
- Change text in any button, bullet point, headline, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other part of the landing page
- Change the background image or color
- Change the color of links, buttons, text, etc.
- Choose your own fonts
- Use your own images
- Modify the size of the content area
- Change the order of page elements
- Translate pages into a different language
- Add custom content in the pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own pages from scratch and save them as new page templates.
(Change and customize anything on your page template)
Transform Your Web Site Into A Powerful Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox Plugin
The Thrive package includes the Thrive Lightbox plugin, which lets you add fully customizable 2-step opt-in forms and animated elements to your web site …
(Add lead capture forms and animated elements to your web pages with Thrive Lightbox)
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 can help improve your conversion rates.)
Thrive Lightbox 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 their mouse 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 web pages, using various effects (e.g. fade in, slide in from right to left, roll in, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your web pages with Thrive Lightbox)
A lightbox and event is created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over your events, triggers and design.
Testimonials
Below are a few of the testimonials plugin users have written about 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”
Useful 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 shortcodes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will be displayed correctly on on your site.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build with Thrive Content Builder.
Product Support
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages Plugin 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 software is very well-supported, and users get unlimited upgrades, and one year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, 30 day, complete refund guarantee.
This is an exciting product that will just keep getting better.
Software Pricing
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 allows you to activate the plugin on a single web site. Pricing includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This license enables you to configure the plugin on all of your personal web sites. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency Licensing – Use on all your sites and on all your client web sites. Pricing includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Note: Pricing details of Thrive Content Builder can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The price above was current at the time this content was published. This may or may not be the actual pricing set by the product seller when you visit the product site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest price:
Additional Information
The Thrive Content and 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 page elements and beautiful, pre-designed template sets that help to speed up content design, and on the other hand, you have complete control over your design process and the ability to edit and customize anything and everything on your web page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, which lets you get things done without having to go through multiple steps.
For a demo video of the plugin, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive website.
Get This Plugin …
If you want to edit something, you click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you’ll see the change happen instantly. If you want to move something, just drag it and drop it into its new position. There are no additional steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your business online and create amazing marketing pages and content, Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For complete details, visit the plugin website here:
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