WordPress has evolved from being just a simple blogging tool into a tool being used to create all kinds of websites.
Whatever you can imagine, somewhere around the world someone is bound to be already building it using WordPress!
In this article you will discover the ultimate click-to-edit front end visual content editor for WordPress sites.
Drag And Drop Content Editors For WordPress
Is The WordPress Visual Editor Meeting All Of Your Page Design Needs?
With all the rapid improvements that WordPress has undergone in recent years, many WordPress users and developers believe that the WordPress editor is more suitable for performing simple content editing (e.g. blocks of text running down the page with left-aligned images or videos, etc.), than creating or changing content elements with more complex layouts.
(The 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 layout shown below …
Creating the above in your content would require typing something that looks like this into your default WordPress visual content editor …
Typically, this is not an issue … until you have to edit some part of the layout (for example, move some of the content from box 1 into box 2, or replace the background colour in a box from bright red to purple. Then, you’re stuck having to mess around with code inside the content editor.
The WordPress 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 creating with more complex layouts, what you see is not what you get …
(“What You See” isn’t always “What You Get” … unless you can visualize code!)
In some cases, users may even be better off working directly inside the WordPress html (text) editor tab instead of the WYSIWYG editor when trying to create complex layouts …
Even though WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platform available, this makes it hard for non-technical users to have full control of their own content.
The fundamental challenge about using shortcodes and HTML to create content in WordPress can be summarized by asking the following questions:
1) Speed – How long does it take to create a web 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, what you see when working in the back end does not look anything like what you see in the front end. This means that users need to translate mentally what the content will look like when working with complex layouts. Other solutions require several steps before you can start configuring your page layout, or endlessly going back and forth between browser tabs and performing updates to see how your content is progressing, which can impact how quickly you can create your content, as you wait for the updated content to refresh.
Many WordPress developers have come up with different solutions to make content editing more intuitive. Some of these alternative solutions range from standalone plugins you can install on your site that add new functionality to the editor, to themes that provide built-in features like drag and drop editing …
(WordPress “drag and drop” editors aim to make creating complex layouts easier!)
Some solutions end up requiring so many complex page-building features, that users need to learn how to work with complicated-looking front end editors …
Many of these alternative editors work fine, but they still don’t address the fundamental challenge of using HTML and shortcodes as described earlier. Adding and editing sophisticated content elements 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 your web pages to look “just right” quickly, this can start to become quite frustrating after a while.
Ask yourself this …
If there were no technical constraints, how would you like your content builder to work?
Now that you’ve asked this question, visualize this …
- You look at your content and if you spot something that needs to be corrected, just click on the content and start editing it. Your content is instantly edited.
- You simply drag and drop items around the page, and see them exactly as they will appear on the front end without having to mentally visualize HTML or shortcodes.
- You have an idea for an item of content that you would like to add, so you simply begin typing, and you build your page as you go, without delays, without switching of tab browsers, and without having to wait for new web content to republish and reload.
Would that not be the perfect way to create content for your WordPress web site? A true WYSIWYG content builder where all you have to do is click-to-edit and drag and drop elements around your page?
(Imagine being able to create complex page layouts in real-time 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 revolutionary WordPress plugin that lets site owners easily create and change content on their posts and pages using true click-to-edit and drag and drop simplicity.
The Thrive Content Builder plugin is a new and incredibly easy way to speed up the process of creating content on.
Once installed, Thrive Content Builder adds a visual content editor and a sidebar menu that lets you select, then drag and drop elements to your web page …
(Thrive Content Builder adds a new visual content builder to WordPress)
The Thrive Landing Pages And Content 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.
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 business online and create awesome sales pages, streamlined landing pages and engaging content.
Thrive Content Builder – Click-To-Edit Drag & Drop Content Creator For WordPress
With the Thrive Content Builder plugin, you can easily add content to your web pages using drag and drop elements …
Everything on your page can be configured using “drag and drop” and “click-to-edit” …
Once you have positioned elements on a page, you can continue to further edit these without having to go through additional steps or opening more settings screens …
The built-in Landing Pages editor also lets you build stunning landing pages and easily customize these …
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 the Thrive Content and Landing Page Builder plugin installed is so amazingly simple, that the developers warn that you’ll 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 terrific plugin for WordPress we’ve previously written about on this site.
Go here to learn more about using this plugin:
Plugin Benefits
Below are just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Thrive Content Builder to speed up your page design and content creation process:
Very Easy To Install
Thrive Content Builder is really easy to install. Just upload it to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Create & Edit Content In Real Time
Thrive Content Builder is simple and intuitive to use and lets you build content in real-time.
What You See Is Exactly What You Get
With Thrive Content Builder installed, what you see as you work within the content editor – typefaces, elements, layouts, etc. is exactly what you get on the front end of your site.
Some additional benefits and advantages include:
- Add Eye-Catching Page Layouts With Drag And Drop Ease: Create any type of layout you can imagine with intuitive drag and drop functionality.
- Customizable Elements Included: With Thrive Content Builder you not only get an exciting and simple-to-use click-to-edit content builder, but the plugin also includes a very decent collection of design elements that you can customizable and add to your pages without using shortcodes, like flat design elements, borderless content, testimonials, responsive Google maps, etc.
- Distraction-Free Content Creation: Not having to deal with technical stuff for the updated content to refresh frees up your attention and allows you to build the content your business needs, quickly and without having to mess with code or click through multiple layers of menus to get what you need done.
(Add, edit and customize web page elements like testimonials, pricing tables, table of contents builder, section dividers, custom HTML and CSS, etc.)
Features
Thrive Content Builder offers many great features to web site owners. Here are just a few of these:
- Regular WordPress Editor Functionality Is Still Available: You have access to all of the regular WordPress content editing options that you are used to (e.g. bold formatting, centering text, headings, etc.),
- Drag And Drop Multi-Style 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 provides you with various eye-catching and customizable elements that will help you 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.
- Responsive Design: Add mobile-friendly columns, boxes, content section dividers, e.g. which will adjust to display correctly on different device screens.
- Add Animation To Your Web Pages: The Event Manager feature lets you add animations, trigger lightboxes and more!
(Add Animated Elements To Your Web Pages)
Thrive Landing Pages – Landing Page Templates
Landing page sets are web templates that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language to take your visitors all the way from signup to purchase, product download and more.
(Thrive Landing Pages plugin provides you with conversion-optimized web page templates)
Thrive Landing Pages Plugin – Benefits
- Everything is hosted on your own WordPress site
- Save time creating and customizing pages
- 100% conversion-optimized landing pages
- No technical skills required
- Works with all themes
Thrive Content and Page Builder not only can be used to create beautiful-looking content in your WordPress posts and pages, but you can also choose from dozens of professionally designed, web page templates that are conversion-optimized and fully customizable …
(Landing page sets that work together logically and use the same conversion-optimized design language)
There are 30+ templates available, with more templates scheduled for release. 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 Landing Page Template Sets
Typically, in order to fully customize a landing page template, you would need to either pay a web site developer 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 mess around with 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 building conversion-optimized web pages.”
Thrive Landing Pages gives you great-looking 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 the page template …
The landing page templates included with this plugin let you do the following:
- Modify text in all headlines, buttons, bullet points, etc.
- Delete text, images or any other element of the landing page
- Change all background images and edit colors
- Change the color of links, text, buttons, etc.
- Choose your own fonts
- Select your own images and graphics
- Modify content area size
- Change the order of page elements
- Translate pages into a different language
- Add any kind of custom content in the 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 any element of your page)
Transform Your Site Into A Marketing Machine With Thrive Lightbox Plugin
The Thrive package includes Thrive Lightbox, which lets you add fully editable 2-step opt-in forms and events to your content pages …
(Add opt-in forms and animation to your pages with the Thrive Lightbox plugin)
Thrive Lighbox Two-Step Opt-in Forms
A two-step opt-in process helps increase your conversion rates. Visitors click on an image or button, and then they are presented with your opt-in form …
(2-step opt-in forms can 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 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 web pages, using various animation effects (e.g. fade out, slide in from top to bottom, rotate, etc.
(Set up and manage events on your sales 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.
Feedback From Users
Below are a few of the testimonials and feedback plugin users have published 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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”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”
Thrive Content Builder Plugin – 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 installed.
You can add WordPress 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 using Thrive Content Builder.
Support
Thrive Content Builder and Landing Pages 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 really well-supported, and users get lifetime updates, and one year unlimited support with their purchase, backed by a no-risk, 30 day, 100% refund guarantee.
This is an exciting product for WordPress users that will just keep getting better.
Product 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 option enables you to configure the plugin on 1 web site only. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and one year of unlimited support. Cost = $59.00.
- Unlimited Sites License – This allows you to use the plugin on all sites that you personally own. Includes full feature set, unlimited updates and 1 year of unlimited support. Price = $87.00.
- Agency Edition – Use on all your sites & on client domains. It includes access to Thrive Content Builder, plus all Thrive Themes & Thrive Plugins. Price = $247.00 per year.
Note: Pricing details of the product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Presently, the plugin retails for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual pricing charged by the product author when you visit the plugin site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the current price:
Additional Info
The developers of the Thrive Content and Landing Page 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 template sets that help 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 ability to edit and customize everything on your web page, using the plugin’s click-to-edit and drag and drop features, that allows you to see exactly how the content you are working on will look when published.
For a demo video showing plugin usage, including help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Thrive website.
The Bottom Line …
If you want to edit something, simply click on the element and start editing. If you want to change something, you will see the change happen immediately. If you want to move something, you 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 sales pages and content, this plugin delivers an incredible conversion-boosting package with a single, inexpensive plugin.
For complete details, visit the plugin website here:
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