WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool into a tool being used to design all types of web pages – marketing pages, product showcase pages, business pages, etc.
Whatever you can imagine, someone is most likely already building it with WordPress!
This article will help you discover the simplest and easiest to use WYSIWYG content builder for your WordPress website.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Does The Default WordPress WYSIWYG Editor Still Meet All Of Your Content Creation Needs?
With all the rapid advancements that WordPress has gone through in recent years, many WordPress users and developers believe that using the default WordPress editor to build or edit complex page elements can be difficult.
(The WordPress WYSIWYG content editor is great for adding, formatting and editing conventional content, but adding complex content elements can be quite challenging!)
For example, if you look at the image below …
Creating the above in your content would require inserting something that looks like this inside the WordPress content editor …
Typically, this is not really an issue … unless you need to change your layout (for example, move part of the content from box 3 into box 2, or replace the button inside a box from green to gray. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the content editor.
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 trying to add complex layouts, what you see in the WordPress content editor screen is not exactly what you are going to get when your page gets published …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some cases, you could even be better off working inside the WordPress html editor tab instead of the WYSIWYG editor when trying to build fancy layouts …
Even though WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platform available, this makes it difficult for non-technical users to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental challenge with having to use HTML and shortcodes to create content in WordPress can be summarized by asking the following questions:
1) Speed – How long will it take to build a web page using this 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 when working in the editor doesn’t look anything like what you see in the front end. This means that you need to abstract what your 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 coming along, which can affect 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 with the aim of addressing this issue. Some of these alternative solutions range from stand alone 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 content creation easier!)
Some solutions combine so many page-building features, that users end up with complicated-looking front end content editors …
Many of these alternative solutions work fine, but they fail to address the fundamental issue of using shortcodes and HTML 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 content quickly, this can become very frustrating.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your content editor to behave?
Now, imagine the following …
- You look at your content and if you see something that needs correction, simply click on the content and start editing it. Your content has been instantly changed.
- You simply 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 shortcodes or HTML.
- You have an idea for a specific piece of content that you’d like to create, so you just start typing, and your web page gets built as you go, without delays, no switching of tab browsers, and no waiting for pages to reload.
Would this not be the perfect way to create content for your web site? A true visual content builder where all you have to do is click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around the pages and posts?
(Imagine being able to create complex web 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 Landing Pages And Content Builder – Click-To-Edit Drag & Drop Content Creator For WordPress
Plugin Description
Thrive Content Builder is a truly intuitive click-to-edit drag-and-drop content and landing page building plugin for WordPress.
Thrive Content Builder is a new and incredibly easy way to set up conversion-focused pages on your WordPress website.
Once installed, the plugin adds a visual content editor and a menu that lets you select, then drag and drop design elements on your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual editor to your WordPress site)
The Thrive Content Builder 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.
In this article we’ll take a look at all of the above and how all of this functionality works seamlessly together to help you transform and improve your web site and create awesome marketing pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder Plugin
Thrive Content Builder lets you easily build complex web page design layouts using drag and drop elements …
Every aspect of your web page can be designed with “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” ease …
Once you have positioned your elements on the page, you can then easily customize or edit these without going through additional steps or complicated settings windows …
You can also create highly attractive landing pages that can just as easily be edited or customized …
Thrive Content and Page Builder is simple, easy to use, and ideal for all WordPress users at all levels. In fact, designing pages with the Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder plugin installed is so amazingly simple, that the developers guarantee that once you start using it, it will ruin the experience of using any other content editor forever, and you’ll never look back!
Go here to learn more about the plugin: Thrive Content Builder
Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Landing Pages were created by the same team that developed Thrive Leads, another great plugin for WordPress we’ve previously written about on this site.
Go here to read about this plugin:
Plugin Benefits
Here are just some of the many benefits of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up your page design and content creation process:
Very Easy To Install
Thrive Content Builder is very easy to install. Just upload a zip folder that contains the plugin to your Plugin folder via your dashboard and activate.
Real-Time Content Content Editing
Thrive Content Builder is simple and intuitive to use and lets you add content to your web pages 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 editor – typefaces, visual elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get on the front end of your site.
Some additional benefits of the plugin include the following:
- Stunning 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 visually exciting drag and drop content builder, but the plugin also includes a jaw-dropping collection of professional web design elements that you can customizable and add to your layouts without using short codes, for e.g.: content toggle, feature grids, page section dividers, responsive Google map embeds, etc.
- Ideal For Non-Technical Users: Not having to deal with technical stuff, or wait for the updated content to refresh frees up your attention and allows you to be more focused while you build content or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you want done.
(Thrive Content Builder lets you easily create, edit and customize web page elements like testimonial boxes, columns, styled lists, call to action buttons, responsive maps, etc.)
Plugin Features
Thrive Content Builder provides website owners a number of great features. Here are just a few:
- Built-In WordPress Content Functionality Is Preserved: You have access to all of the built-in WordPress content editing options that you are used to (e.g. underlines, left-aligned text, heading styles, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Multi-Style Elements: The plugin makes a “drag and drop” list of multi-style elements available on your post or page screen for editing content.
- Conversion-Boosting Elements: The plugin comes with various 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 guarantee forms. In addition to being customizable, various elements also offer multiple design options.
- Mobile-Friendly Design: Add mobile-friendly columns, boxes, content dividers, e.g. which will display great on devices with differently sized screens.
- Add Animation Events To Your Web Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you create animated page elements, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Landing Page Template 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 signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages lets you add conversion-optimized web pages to your website)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time building and customizing pages for your web site
- 100% conversion-optimized landing pages
- No tech skills needed
- Works with any WordPress theme
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages not only lets you create beautiful-looking content in your WordPress posts and pages, but you can also choose from dozens of beautifully designed, web 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 currently 30+ templates available, with more templates planned for future release. In addition to the available templates, the developers plan to release new page templates for email lead generation, sales pages, course pages, personal branding pages, webinar pages and more.
Fully Customizable And Flexible Landing Page Template
Typically, in order to have fully customizable landing page templates, you would need to either pay a web 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 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 allows you to change or customize any aspect of your page templates …
The landing page templates included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Modify text in all headlines, bullet points, buttons, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other element of the landing page
- Replace the background image or background colour
- Change the color of links, text, buttons, etc.
- Use your own fonts
- Use your own images and graphics
- Change the size of the content area
- Rearrange the order of elements on your pages
- Translate pages into different languages
- Add custom content inside the pages
- Use pre-designed, customized pages, or create your own web pages from scratch and save them as new page templates.
(Change or customize anything on your page templates)
Transform Your Web Site Into A Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox
The Thrive plugin package also includes Thrive Lightbox, which lets you add fully configurable 2-step opt-in forms and events to your pages …
(Add lead capture forms and animation to your WordPress site with Thrive Lightbox)
Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A 2-step opt-in process helps increase your conversion rates. When visitors click on an image or button they are presented with your opt-in form …
(Capture more leads and subscribers with a 2-step opt-in process)
Thrive Lightbox Event Manager
An “event” consists of a trigger and an action. You can make an opt-in form appear when when visitors click or hover over a button or graphic elements, or when someone scrolls down to a certain point on the page. You can also use the Event Manager to animate images on your pages, using a range of animation effects (e.g. zoom in from the page center, slide in from bottom to top, roll in, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your WordPress website with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Lightboxes and events are created automatically for your landing pages, but you also have complete control over events, triggers and design.
Testimonials
Below are a few of the testimonials and feedback customers have provided for 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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”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”
Plugin Tips
Thrive Content Builder works with any theme in WordPress, not just with Thrive Landing Pages. You cannot use Thrive Content Builder to edit content that was not created using the plugin.
You can add WordPress short codes 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.
Support
Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder comes with free updates, new landing pages and upcoming features. The plugin developers are constantly working on adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thrive software is well-supported, and users get unlimited upgrades, and 1 year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 30 day, full refund guarantee.
This is an exciting product that will just keep 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 License – This lets you install the plugin on 1 site only. Price includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites Licensing – This license option enables you to activate the plugin on all of your personal websites. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Cost = $87.00.
- Agency License – This license allows you to install the plugin on all of your own websites and your client web sites. Price includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Please Note: Price details for this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The price above was correct when this article was published. This may or may not be the actual pricing charged by the product 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:
Additional Information
The Thrive Content and Landing 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 templates that help make designing your pages faster, and on the other hand, you also have complete control over the design process and the freedom to change anything and everything on your page, using the plugin’s visual content editor, which lets you work unhindered by overly complicated options.
For ”how to” videos of the plugin, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive Content Builder website.
Our Recommendation …
If you want to edit something, you just click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, do it, and you can see the change happen immediately. If you want to move something, all you have to do is simply drag it and drop it into its new position. There are no unnecessary steps involved.
If you want to transform and improve your website and create amazing marketing pages and content, Thrive Landing Pages and Content Builder delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
To learn more, check out the plugin here:
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