Thrive Content Builder Review – The Best Online WYSIWYG HTML Editor

Thrive Content Website Builder

The Thrive Content Builder is plugin that will work on any self hosted WordPress.org website (as opposed to a WordPress.com website).

Thrive makes things easy and keeps your site looking gorgeous without a need for a developer or a designer. From their drag and drop real time editing, to their mobile optimized pages. Thrive is an amazing website builder that should be in every entrepreneurs website building arsenal.

Content Editing Should Be Easy

Anyone who has built or managed a website is well aware of how much easier WordPress makes the whole process of running a website. Even so, content editing is still one of the things that WordPress hasn’t improved much since its creation over ten years ago.

The edit screen doesn’t follow the styling display rules of the theme. What you see is NOT what you get in the WordPress administration area. Clicking preview either takes you away from the edit screen, or opens another window. There are far too many steps that waste time.

WordPress has definitely fallen behind for editing compared to other website builders like Squarespace and Wix.

Thrive has decided to change that. Their content editing process is easy. Really easy. What you see is really what you get. Fonts, colors, sizing, padding, and margins can be edited in real time.

The edit screen is exactly what your users see from the front end. No need to refresh the page and no more guessing how an edit will actually display on the front end. The process is surprisingly simple, easy, and accurate. It’s not very often that website software “just works”, but Thrive nailed it.

HTML5 Website Builder – Let’s keep Google Happy

Google recently announced their newest algorithm change will be released in April. The change mean that Google will no longer be supporting non-mobile friendly websites when a user is searching from a mobile device. What’s that mean for you as a business owner? If your website doesn’t pass Google’s Mobile Friendly test, your site won’t be displayed EVER to users searching via a mobile devices. As far as Google is concerned your website no longer exists in the mobile world. So what can you do about it?

One quick and easy approach would be to download a plugin like WP Touch. But something like that is only a band-aid. Mobile isn’t going away, so it’s smart to invest a little time into fixing your site the right way. Thrive Content Builder is built using HTML5 and is mobile responsive right out of the box. Any page you build using Thrive will pass the Google Mobile Friendly test. Using Thrive will make sure your site shows up on a Google search.

Theme Builders vs Plugin Web Builders

Most web builders are theme based. That means in order to use them you need to change your WordPress theme and completely abandon your current design. If you’ve spend time and money coming up with a perfect design, changing the theme is just not an option. Thrive makes sure you don’t have to change themes. Thrive is plugin based. This means you can keep using the theme you already have. No changing designs. No changing colors. Your current theme will continue to work while integrating all of the benefits of Thrive Content Builder. Thrive is added to your site just like any other plugin. Just upload it on your Plugin screen within WordPress and then click activate. Your current theme and design will still be active, along with all of the benefits that Thrive offers.

Thrive Landing Pages

Almost anytime you read a marketing blog someone is reminding us about the importance of A/B Testing and conversion optimization. Both of these tests make perfect sense and can be extremely valuable. The problem with them is that designing all of the landing pages takes a lot of time. Waiting for enough traffic to get to reach each and every landing page takes even more time. Did you know it’s recommended that you have a minimum of 1,000+ visitors to a page before you can make an accurate determination on the winner of an A/B test? What if you’re just starting out and only average 30 visitors a day to your entire site, let alone a single landing page?  For smaller websites it could take months to get an adequate sample size.

The good news is that Thrive Landing Pages comes with the Thrive Content Builder. All of the included landing pages that come with Thrive have already been conversion optimized and tested. This is a tremendous time saver. It’s recommended to further A/B Test the landing pages, but you can be confident that you’re already starting with a winner. And, just like the main content editor, Thrive Landing pages are drag and drop. Editing is in real time. You can build a customized conversion optimized landing page in under three minutes with Thrive.

Crawl Before You Walk – Pricing for the Serial Entrepreneur

Money is almost always the main concern when starting a new business venture. That is another great thing about Thrive. For a single website, Thrive is already almost absurdly inexpensive. But, if you have multiple websites, or plan on having multiple websites in the future, the license structure let’s you upgrade from a single site to multiple at any time. All you have to do is send Thrive support an email. So you can start out with the license for a single site, and then upgrade later when you need it. Thrive even has a developer license for Agencies that need to build sites for clients.

Other things we love about Thrive

We listed some great reasons to look into Thrive above, but here are some other small details we also want you to know…

  • It works with almost every theme
  • WooCommerce compatible
  • Your theme and plugin shortcodes will still work great with Thrive
  • Thrive has a dedicated support team to help answer any questions you may have
  • Thrive has almost zero effect on your website load time.

Thrive is by far the best wysiwyg web builder available for WordPress.

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