WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging application into a tool that can be used to design all types of web pages – marketing pages, product showcase pages, local business pages, etc.
Whatever you can think of, someone is probably already building it using WordPress!
This article will help you discover the ultimate click-to-edit front end visual content builder for WordPress.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Is The Default WordPress Visual Content Editor Meeting All Of Your Content Creation Needs?
With all the rapid advancements that the WordPress platform has undergone in recent years, many WordPress users and developers believe that using the WordPress WYSIWYG editor to build or edit complex page layouts can be challenging.
(The WordPress editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional content, but adding more complex content elements can be quite challenging!)
For example, if you look at the image below …
Adding the above layout would require inserting something like this into your WordPress visual editor …
Generally, this is not really an issue … until you have to change the layout (for example, move some of the content from box 1 into box 2, or replace the button in a box from bright red to another color. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with page code.
The WordPress content editor is supposed to give users an easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor, but as you can see, if you are creating with complex content elements, what you see on your screen may not be what you are going to get when the page goes live …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some situations, you would probably be better off working with the html source itself instead of the visual editor when trying to add complex layouts …
Even though WordPress is extremely easy to use, this makes it difficult for WordPress site owners without knowledge of HTML or CSS to fully manage their own content.
The fundamental challenge of using HTML and shortcodes to create content in the default WordPress WYSIWYG editor can be summarized as follows:
1) Speed – How long will it take to create a page using the editor?
2) Abstraction – How closely does the content in the ”back end” 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 back end looks nothing like what you see in the front end. This means that users have to abstract 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 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 updates to reload.
Many WordPress web developers have tried to come up with different solutions to try to address this issue. Some of these solutions range from WordPress plugins you can install on your site that add new functionality to the editor, to WP themes that offer 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 complex page-building features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these solutions work fine, but they still fail to address the fundamental problem with using HTML and shortcodes as described earlier. Creating, adding and editing non-linear content 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 start to become very frustrating after a while.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like to build and edit your web content?
Now, visualize this …
- You look at your content and if you see something that needs to be fixed, simply click on the content and start writing. Your content has been instantly fixed.
- You can just drag and drop elements around the page, and see them exactly as they will display on the front end without having to mentally visualize code.
- You have an idea for a specific piece of content you’d like to add, so you immediately begin typing, and your page gets built as you go, with no delays, with no switching of tab browsers, and no waiting for web pages to reload.
Would that not be the perfect way to create content for your WordPress web site? A true visual content editor where all you have to do is click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around your 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 And Landing Pages – Click-To-Edit Drag And Drop Content Building Plugin For WordPress
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a unique WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly create amazing content pages using a truly visual click-to-edit and drag and drop content editor.
Thrive Content Builder 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 and a sidebar menu that lets you click, then drag and drop elements to your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new content builder to WordPress)
The Thrive Content Builder And Landing Pages plugin is actually a combination of the Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages plugins rolled into one, plus an additional plugin feature called Thrive Lightbox.
Let’s take a look at each of the above and how all of this powerful functionality works together to help you easily transform and improve your site and create awesome marketing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder Plugin For WordPress
This plugin lets you easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Every element on your page can be created by dragging and dropping things around the page and then clicking to edit them …
Once elements have been added to your page, you can then customize these without having to go through multiple steps or opening new configuration windows …
The built-in functionality of the plugin also lets you build highly attractive landing pages that can also be easily customized …
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 and Page Builder plugin installed is so effortlessly simple, that the developers guarantee that you will never look back once you start using it
To learn more about this plugin go here: Thrive Content Builder
Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages were created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another amazing plugin for WordPress that we have previously written about on this site.
See this page to read about the plugin:
Plugin Benefits
Here we have listed just some of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up your page design and content creation process:
Fast And Easy To Install And Configure. Be Up And Running In Very Little Time.
Thrive Content Builder is really easy to install. Just upload the plugin file to your Plugin folder via your WordPress admin login and activate.
Create And Edit Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is very simple and intuitive to use and lets you edit and add content to your web pages in real-time.
What You See Is Truly What You Get
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see as you work within the editor – fonts, visual elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what your visitors will see in the front end of your site.
Some additional plugin benefits include:
- Attractive Layouts With Drag & Drop Ease: Create any layout you can imagine with drag and drop ease.
- Customizable Elements Included: With the Thrive Content Builder plugin you not only get an amazing click-to-edit WordPress content editor, but the plugin also includes a jaw-dropping collection of customizable web design elements that you can customizable and add to your layouts without using shortcodes, like tabbed content, table of contents builder, testimonials, custom HTML and CSS, etc.
- More Enjoyable Content Creation: Not having to deal with technical stuff for the updated 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 layers of menus to get what you want done.
(Thrive Content Builder lets you easily add, edit and customize page elements like testimonials, tabbed content, borderless content, page section dividers, responsive video embeds, etc.)
Thrive Content Builder Features
Thrive Content Builder provides many unique features to WP users. Here are just some of these features:
- Built-In WordPress Editor Functionality Is Still Available: You have access to all of the regular WordPress editing options that you are used to (e.g. underlines, left-aligned text, headings, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Elements: The plugin adds a “drag and drop” list of multi-style elements to your post or page screen for creating or editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin comes with a range of eye-catching and customizable elements that will help increase your sales conversions, including buttons and call-to-action elements, testimonials, and guarantees. In addition to customization options, multiple design options are also available for various elements.
- 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 Web Pages: Thrive Content Builder’s Event Manager feature lets you add animation in buttons, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Landing Page Templates
Landing page sets are web page templates that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language to take your visitors from 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 creating beautiful-looking web pages for your website
- 100% conversion-optimized web page templates
- No technical skills needed
- Works with all WordPress themes
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder not only lets you create beautiful-looking 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 over 30 templates available, with more templates planned for future release. In addition to the templates shown above, expect to see new templates in the future for email lead generation, sales pages, course pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template Sets
Normally, in order to have a fully customizable landing page template, 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 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 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 beautiful pre-built web page templates that are fully optimized and ready to go, and complete design freedom that allows you to change and customize any aspect of your page …
With the landing page template sets included with this plugin, you are able to:
- Change text in all buttons, bullet points, headlines, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other component of your landing page
- Change the background image and background color
- Edit the color of text, links, buttons, etc.
- Choose your own fonts
- Use your own images and graphics
- Modify the size of the content area
- Rearrange the order of page elements
- Translate everything on the page into a different language
- Add any type of custom content anywhere inside any of the pages
- Start with a blank page and create your own templates, or even build your own custom landing page templates library.
(Change and customize any element of the page template)
Thrive Lightbox Plugin – Transform Your Site Into A Powerful Marketing Machine
The Thrive package includes Thrive Lightbox, which lets you add fully customizable 2-step opt-in forms and events to your website …
(Add lead capture forms and events to your WordPress pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox 2-Step Opt-in Forms
A 2-step opt-in process helps to increase your conversion rates. When visitors click on a button or image they are presented with your opt-in form …
(two-step opt-in forms help increase 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 reaches 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 from the page center, slide in from right to left, roll in, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Lightboxes and events are created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over your events, triggers and design.
Testimonials
Below are a couple of the testimonials that customers have written about Thrive Content Builder:
“I have had nothing but the best experience imaginable with this tool since I purchased it. This is by far one of, if not the best plug-in I have purchase to date and it has definitely made working with WordPress a whole new experience. Jim Bond”
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“I’m blown away by the plugin. Keep up the incredible, WordPress changing work, guys! Dean Phillips”
Thrive Content Builder – 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 on pages or posts that were not created with the plugin.
You can add short codes inside the Content Builder or Landing Pages plugin and they will be displayed correctly when published.
Thrive Lightbox works with any content you build with Thrive Content Builder.
Plugin Support
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages 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 very well-supported, and users get lifetime upgrades, and 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a risk-free, 30 day, full money-back guarantee.
This is an exciting product for WordPress users that will just keep getting better.
Product 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 License – This license lets you run the plugin on one site only. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Licensing – This license enables you to set up the plugin on all of your personal websites. Pricing includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency Edition – This license enables you to set up the plugin on all of your own sites and all client websites. It includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Note: Current pricing for this product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Currently, the plugin sells for the amounts shown above. This may not be the actual price charged by the software seller when you visit the site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the current price:
Additional Plugin Information
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 time-saving features like ready-made page elements and beautiful, pre-designed template sets that help to speed up the page design and content creation process, and on the other hand, you also have 100% control over your design process and the freedom to edit and customize anything and everything on your web page, using the plugin’s visual content editor, that lets you see how the content you are working on will display on the “front end” after being published.
For a demo video of the plugin in action, including installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive plugins website.
Get The Plugin …
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, simply drag it and drop it into its new location. There are no unnecessary steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your site and create amazing marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content, this plugin delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For complete details, check out the plugin here:
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