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January 29 2022

Five Reasons to Use WordPress Page Builders for Your Business

WordPress is one of the biggest CMS platforms for a good reason. The platform’s versatility has made it the top pick for 39.5% of all website owners in 2021. It offers numerous benefits, including user-friendliness, low cost, and customization support. Why is that the case?

Keep reading to see why you should use WordPress for your business. It comes down to the value that the platform provides. It’s an all-in-one solution for many business owners, making it the most reasonable choice.

1. Plenty of Customizations Are Available

You can find plenty of WordPress competitors now in the CMS market. However, their business models revolve around providing a specialized solution for single-purpose websites. For example, Shopify is a platform for eCommerce websites.

On the other hand, WordPress can do it all. Do you need a blog, want an eCommerce store, looking to launch a news outlet, or need a simple business website? WordPress can deliver all of that.

While numerous templates are available, you can work with developers and use a custom WordPress theme to make your website completely stand out from others. One of the biggest reasons people opt for WordPress is the platform’s customization features.

2. The Platform Is User-Friendly

Users who weren’t familiar with technology avoided making websites by themselves only a decade ago. However, with the development of CMS platforms such as WordPress, anyone can now create and manage a website. There’s no need for any coding skills. All it takes is a little bit of time to understand pages and posts, and you can start building your business pages.

Plus, you can immediately see the changes you’re making. Why is this important? You don’t need to hire a team of developers. WordPress is a product that comes with all the necessary features equipped out of the box. You don’t have to lose too much time ensuring that everything’s running.

Everything works from the moment you install the platform and a website is just one piece of the business puzzle. Therefore, business owners can quickly set up their websites and keep developing their business. That applies to businesses in all industries.

For example, if you’re wondering how to scale a coaching business, the answer’s simple with WordPress. You can create a custom site with minimal financial and time investment. Once it’s up and running, you can focus on the things that matter, such as getting more clients to coach.

3. Its Ecosystem Is Huge

Add plugins tab on WordPress

WordPress is an open-source project that has millions of contributors worldwide. It’s not just the platform that people are developing. What makes it unique is the broad range of plugins that users can add to their websites.

Some plugins help easily implement different elements on pages. For example, some plugins can make managing imagery and video on your pages more accessible. That’s important for businesses looking to feature on-site testimonials or collections of portfolio images.

Additionally, other plugins serve to help with the technical side of the platform. Some plugins help make the website SEO-friendly and ensure the website’s content is still relevant. Others help with website caching so the website loads quickly for all the visitors. Some help with website security.

After picking the right plugins, all your core web vitals optimization will be finished, allowing your website to rank high in the search engine results.

Whatever functionality you want to add to your website, you can do so with the right plugin. The most extreme example is turning your WordPress site into an eCommerce store. You have to install WooCommerce and start setting up your eCommerce shop.

Aside from installing different plugins, you can also use different themes developed by various companies. They allow you to install full-blown designs to adjust to your needs automatically. That lowers the amount of time you’ll need to set up your website.

The sheer size of the WordPress ecosystem makes the platform unique, reliable, and appealing. You can find everything you need in a matter of minutes and have your business website up and running.

4. WordPress Is Mobile-Friendly

If you’re worried about whether your website will work on mobile, it will. Half of the online visitors come from mobile devices. WordPress comes with mobile support out of the box. Different themes also allow you to make further adjustments and adjust your website specifically for each platform.

That way, no matter if the visitors are coming from a computer, tablet, or smartphone, you can rest assured they’ll have no challenges browsing your website.

5. WordPress Is Free

Plant growing out of coins

Last but not least, unlike commercial CMS platforms, WordPress is completely free. The only costs you have to face are hosting fees and domain name costs. You can then install WordPress and use it without spending a dime.

The same goes for the many plugins and themes that are available. However, professionally developed themes come at a cost, but nothing comes close to the monthly fees of using other CMS solutions.

Concluding Thoughts

These reasons show why WordPress is a valid option for your business pages. The platform is free to use, user-friendly, and has a vast ecosystem, further extending the platform’s functionalities.

While there is a learning curve to the platform, it takes hours to master, as there is an abundance of learning materials available online for free. If you’re thinking of using WordPress for your business, don’t think about it anymore. It’s the best CMS pick you can make.

About the author

Dmitriy Maschenko is the head of a division and a Board member at PSD2HTML. This company offers top-notch web and mobile development services to all kinds of clients, from S&M businesses to agencies and governmental bodies.

Dmitriy went all the way from a developer trainee position up to where he is now. With 12+ years of experience in the IT industry under his belt, Dmitriy has a wealth of knowledge to share with his readers. He writes on business management, website & app development, and everything in between. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-maschenko-b0985057/

April 2 2020

WordPress and The Page Builder Problem

Editorial Staff WordPress Page Builder, WordPress 3

As one of the most widely-used website CMS platforms on the market today, WordPress has grown from the humble beginnings of two web developers to become the most dominant forces on the web. Given how versatile WordPress is, with swathes of plugins and extensions available for you to customize its functionality and the fact that it’s a free platform, it should come as no surprise to learn that it’s the CMS of choice for many independent bloggers and small to medium businesses.

Personally, I believe WordPress is the best CMS platform available, but one of the biggest issues I commonly face is having to work with a Page Builder plugin. So, in this blog, I’ll discuss why Page Builder plugins might seem like a good idea, but in the long run, they’re probably not.

What is a Page Builder?

With around 1.3 billion total active websites as of February 2020, there are an estimated 455,000,000 websites powered by WordPress, which equates to around 63% of all content management systems. Since WordPress is typically aimed at users that want to easily create a website of their own (whether for business or blogging), third party plugin companies realized that creating a fully-fledged custom website would require some web development experience. As such, the drag and drop Page Builder was born as a solution to this problem, whereby it would simplify the way that users without coding knowledge would be able to create the site of their dreams.

Live Page Builder

There’s now a plethora of Page Builder plugins available, such as Beaver Builder, Elementor, and WP Bakery, which makes it easy for beginners to build inexpensive websites using drag and drop functionality. However, despite the cost-saving, there are a few drawbacks that could prove to be stumbling blocks as your site evolves over time. Here’s what I find to be the key issues with Page builder plugins:

Painful User Experience

Dragging and dropping sound simple, right? Well, in theory, it is, but Page Builders can be fiddly when it comes to customizing your website, as you’ll need to edit every element that you add. This issue becomes a greater cause for concern where you need to create multiple pages with different structures, as you’ll probably end up wasting hours of your time actually figuring out how to use it. Ultimately, the user experience is awful whether you’re a business owner, web developer, Digital Marketing Agency or SEO professional – I don’t care what anyone else says and I’m in agreement with Pippin Williamson in this blog.

Pipin Williamson Blog

Instead, by using a language such as PHP which is what a professional web developer would typically use, you’ll be able to create a series of page templates that use a given set of styles and reuse the template again and again. In doing so, the only real edits you’d need to make to the site would be content related via WordPress’ Gutenberg editor, which is pretty straight-forward.

Reduces Site Load Speed

If you’ve got a little experience in managing websites or web development, then I totally understand why a Page Builder plugin makes sense. It’s an economical choice, but then it’s tough to scale and can impact performance as a whole, as discussed in this forum post. Put simply, with Page Builders, the reason why you’re able to simply select an element and add it to the page is that all of the elements consist of shortcodes in order to function the way they do. Not only that, but it has to load all the CSS for those elements too since there are individual customization options for everything element you use. The main problem with this is that it’s essentially adding a bunch of redundant code to the page, which takes browsers a longer period of time to render your website for the user.

Page Load Speed has become a key part of a website’s functionality over the years, and especially more so considering that Google integrated it into their algorithm as a ranking factor. Not only that, but pages with slow load times typically affect front-end user experience which can be detrimental to behavioral and conversion metrics recorded through Google Analytics. Again, by hiring a web developer to build your website for you in coding languages such as PHP, you’ll be able to offer the best possible user experience with speedy load time for your customers every time.

Updating Problems

As with all plugins available on the WordPress platform, Page Builders also need to be updated from time to time which is typically when there’s bugs or issues to fix or in order to tighten the security of your website. However, one of the most common problems that website owners have experienced with Page Builders is that when they update the plugin they’re subsequently served with an error message or it breaks their site. The complications here are that WordPress in itself will also need to be updated from time to time too, so if the most recent updates aren’t compatible together then it can cause a conflict and fail to load. Whilst Page Builders endeavor to be compatible with all themes and plugins, unfortunately, this is probably unlikely to ever be the case.

When updating plugins or WordPress in itself, you should always seek the assistance of a professional web developer because if an update does indeed break your site, then you should be back up and running in no time.

Summary

Despite Page Builders presenting themselves as a time-saving solution, in the grand scheme of things; that’s pretty much all they are and they’re a decent short-term solution if you need to knock up a new website pretty quickly. However, I don’t believe they really have much longevity over time, as you’ll find limitations when you’re looking to scale the website and take your business to the next level.

From a personal point of view, I’d always recommend it to anyone looking for a new website to avoid cheap devs that use Page Builders and navigate towards proven web developers that use coding languages such as PHP. Granted, that is just my opinion, but I’d bet a Big Mac that I’m not the only one that feels this way about them.

February 21 2018

5 Amazing WordPress Page Builders to Use in 2018

Daniel Pintilie Plugins Page Builder, Plugins 7

Have you ever asked yourself how people on Star Trek would create a site if they needed one? Would they say to a virtual personal assistant, “Hey, I need a site to present my skills,” and it would instantly generate one?

To be frank, I don’t have an answer, even though I have asked myself many times. Altogether, I am sure that the current WordPress page builders are better than last year, and they will become even more competitive this year.

Creating a site without writing a line of code is a dream that has become a reality. Nowadays, the biggest problem isn’t how to empower average Internet users to design websites, but how to allow them to personalize their creations fully.

WordPress page builders have evolved exponentially in the last few years, and users have started paying attention to them. This Google Trends chart shows how user interest has grown for the search term “WordPress page builders”:

This Google Trends chart shows how user interest has grown.

I’m guessing that you have an idea about page builders. However, I believe that you need some suggestions in this respect, so here are five fantastic WordPress page builders to enhance your sites.

Elementor

Elementor is a premium page builder, but it has a free “little brother” available in the WordPress repository.

Elementor is a premium page builder, but it has a free “little brother” available in the WordPress repository. The free version is enough to get an idea about the plugin.

Once installed, go to Settings and determine who can use it and where. Next, go to a post and click on the Edit with Elementor button. From now on, you will be able to use Elementor’s mighty power.

You can start from scratch or use a pre-made template. Unfortunately, the free accounts have access only to a single template. Regardless your decision, the plugin displays a bunch of elements on the left sidebar—these are the building blocks of a site. Images, text, videos, Google Maps, testimonials, tabs, social icons, counter, sidebars, and HTML are just a few elements available for free accounts. Forms, Facebook comments, price tables, animated headlines, and WooCommerce add-to-cart are elements available for premium accounts.

Each element is customizable—drag any of them onto your canvas and use the styling box to fine tune it. Surprisingly, any modification you make is visible in real time on your layout. On top of that, anything you do is lag-free! It looks like a Star Trek plugin, doesn’t it?

In plain English, these elements give you unlimited powers to design excellent sites even though you don’t have coding skills.

Beaver Builder

Beaver Builder works with any theme and is mobile-friendly.

Similar to Elementor, Beaver Builder has two versions: a free one available in the WordPress repository and a premium one that has more features. Unlike Elementor, however, the free version doesn’t have many features, but it certainly reveals the potential of the premium version.

To create a page, use a template or start from scratch by deciding the number of columns. Next, add modules and customize them. It’s super simple to create a page: drag and drop a module, tailor it as you want, and check if you like the output. It works in near-real time (Elementor is faster), but Beaver Builder impresses with its simplicity of use—it looks like a built-in WordPress core feature and not an external plugin. Most likely, the interface, which is similar to the WordPress editor is “guilty” for this association.

Beaver Builder works with any theme, is mobile-friendly, and is optimized to not slow pages. The only downside is the price—it’s higher than that competitors, but you really get value for your money.

Site Origin Page Builder

Site Origin Page Builder WordPress Plugin

Site Origin Page Builder is also a plugin that comes in two versions: free and paid. Both versions lack fancy items, but they do what they were created for—crafting sites.

Less-trained users will have a hard time finding where to start with this page builder. It’s a button situated on the left side of the post editor, near the Visual and Text buttons. Click on it, and enable Site Origin Page Builder. The next step is to choose a template suitable for your project. You can import, export, and duplicate a template.

You can radically change the layout of a template by adding or removing columns. As you have probably guessed, each pixel is customizable. Finally, add modules to enhance your site. History is a stand-apart feature of this plugin—you can see your actions and revert an earlier version.

Premium accounts benefit from add-ons like contact-form fields, a custom post-type builder, and social widgets. Additionally, they get better support.

Overall, this plugin fully deserves to be featured here, and you should give it a try.

WPBakery Page Builder (Formerly Visual Composer)

WPBakery Page Builder is one of the most popular plugins on CodeCanyon.

WPBakery Page Builder is one of the most popular plugins on CodeCanyon. The stats are simply extraordinary—it’s been sold almost 350,000 times and has a rating of 4.64 out five stars. The price is reasonable, but you don’t have to purchase it blindly; you can create a testing sandbox that is available for a few hours to get an idea.

You can use it as both a back-end and front-end editor, and you will be excited to see how quickly you can create complex structures. WPBakery Page Builder gets the highest mark in intuitiveness. All you have to do is to select your favorite template and delete or add different elements. Rows, image carousels, video players, separators, round charts, or accordions are a few elements you can add to your layout.

A window opens to fine-tune the element you have just added to your layout. It may sound crazy, but it’s true that even a newbie is empowered to do anything that a developer can do, such as determining the proper border-radius or padding area for a box element.

Live Composer

Live Composer is a free front-end page builder.

Live Composer is a free front-end page builder that excels at interface design and user-friendliness. Install and activate it, then open a post and hit the Open in Live Composer button. Next, you will find 30+ modules situated at the bottom of the page. Drag and drop the desired module onto the canvas and customize it. For most of the modules, you will have to go through the Functionality, Styling, and Responsive sections.

This page builder focuses on making cool pages even though you don’t have coding skills. Live Composer is the proper tool to create any type of site, from personal blogs to complex business websites.

Advanced custom forms, responsive mega-menus, gallery grids, and animations are some of the modules that enhance Live Composer’s functionality. However, these features aren’t available for free.

Live Composer works as a magnet for people in love with visual editors—it’s the most eye-catching. At the same time, Live Composer is a genuinely powerful page builder that helps users craft outstanding pages and posts.

In Conclusion

These five WordPress page builders must be on your list if you plan to use one in the near future. Ranking them isn’t possible because each page builder has been for a particular type of users. Test all of them and make the best decision in line with your skills, budget, and needs.

These WordPress page builders are our selection, but there many other great page builders out there. Did we miss your favorite? Add it in the comments, and we will update the post if it’s worthy!

December 26 2016

Visual Composer: A Powerful WordPress Page Builder for Any Theme and Layout

Thy Dao Plugins 0

Looking for a plugin that grants you the full control over your WordPress website? Dreaming of building any layout you can imagine without any coding knowledge whatsoever? My friends, you have come to the right place!

Welcome to the latest article of “Visual Composer: A WordPress Page Builder for any Theme and Layout”! Speaking of Visual Composer, I believe you have heard the name somewhere along your WordPress journey, right?!

This amazing page builder developed by WP Bakery has made a name for itself and become one of the top plugins since it was introduced in 2011. According to statistics released in 2015, the plugin reached the milestone of 20,000 million sales in March 2014. Around that time, it was integrated on over 300 premium themes on Theme Forest, installed into over 65,000 websites all over the world. Such marvelous figures, aren’t they?

Finishing reading this brief introduction, do you want to get to know more about the plugin? I suggest you should say yes because you are so close to possessing one of the most satisfying plugins I have ever worked with throughout my whole life. And to tell you the truth, that is clearly not an exaggeration at all!

That Visual Composer is a top popular plugin is now indisputable, but do you wonder if it satisfies all your needs in a page builder plugin? I do not know exactly what each of you desire in such plugins, but I do guarantee that if Visual Composer ranks 2^nd, then nothing of the kind ranks 1^st! Now, let me guide you through the Visual Composer exploration journey, in which I will elaborate on its general information, its main features and some final thoughts.

General Information

Price:
- $34 for regular license
- $170 for extended license
Created on 22 May 2011, Last Update 21 November 2016
Compatible browsers: IE1, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and Edge
Compatible with WPML, WooCommerce 2.5, 2.4.x, Gravity Forms
Latest version: Visual Composer 5.0.1

With over 45 content elements coming in the Visual Composer package, you are allowed to make magic to both the frontend, which is your website and to the backend, which is your website’s WordPress admin area. In addition to the amazing 40+ content elements, 60+ pre-defined layouts that take seconds to add, 150+ third party add-ons and 40+ unique grid design templates, the plugin offers unlimited design options, saves time and has an easy-to-use interface.

And that is just the beginning of this greatness! Why? Because right after this, I invite you to come to the Main Features party!

Main Features

1.Front End and Back End Editor 2 in 1

Visual Composer: A Powerful WordPress Page Builder for Any Theme and Layout

This feature enables us to build responsive websites and control them easily without any programming skills or knowledge required. It also allows us to switch between different devices to check the appearance of the contents on a tablet or other mobile devices. Specifically, with this Front End Editor, you can:

Add and drag elements around the screen and establish layouts on your WordPress website easily and quickly;
Decide the type of elements you add and highlight them with distinct colors to improve user experience;
Create responsive pages with new design controls.

2. Content Elements

Visual Composer: A Powerful WordPress Page Builder for Any Theme and Layout

I know I have mentioned the amazing 40+ content elements, but I have not explained how “amazing” they are, have I?

Carefully crafted by web design masters, these built-in contents have the power to offer users various options in order to make any layout of your dream become possible. What is more, you can create the most complicated layouts in minutes thanks to these content elements without resorting to any line of code.

Not satisfied yet? How about the 200+ Visual Composer add-ons that bring hundreds of other content elements? With the assistance from these goodies, all you have to do is to drag and drop, and you will have a fully ready WordPress website. In case you do not want to build the website yourself, there are always pre-defined templates to utilize! These 60+ templates cater for every essential section of a website. What is even better is that you can use these pre-built templates to create your own in order to reuse the content.

Now, let’s take a quick look at the built-in content, shall we? Here we have Text block, Pie Chart, Separator, Text separator, Message box, Facebook like, Google+, Pinterest, Tweetmeme, FAQ, Single image, Image gallery, Tabs, Tour section, Accordion, Icon, Posts slider, Widgetised sidebar, Button, Call to action, Video player, Google Maps, Raw JS, Raw HTML, Flickr widget, Progress Bar, Row, Empty Space, Custom Heading, and so many more!

3. Skin Builder

Visual Composer: A Powerful WordPress Page Builder for Any Theme and Layout

Want every website of yours to be one of a kind?

Easy! Use this built-in skin builder to make some adjustments to the Visual Composer elements. Doing so will help you create a website that is a perfect match with your brand identity. The great part is that you can change the appearance of your websites within seconds! How to make that happen? Well, first, you take a look at the skin builder option and decide the parts you want to have influences on, then you can combine your WordPress theme with your custom Visual Composer powered skin to give birth to a brand new design. That is to say, this Visual Composer skin builder could be the best alternative for those who have no programming skills or simply want to save time!

4. Responsive Pages

Visual Composer: A Powerful WordPress Page Builder for Any Theme and Layout

The responsive option offered by Visual Composer means that your content can be accessible on any kind of device, ranging from desktop to tablet and mobile phone. Of course, no extra programming is required for this feature. More interestingly, you can control how stacking functions on different types of device, at the same time defining offsets and hiding specific elements on chosen devices.

Furthermore, you need no knowledge about UI, Visual Composer will create a pro UI looking website for you! You can also forget about the media queries, all you need to do is choose the device type and then fine tune the settings you wish! Giving your users the best readability and user experience will be easily accomplished with this responsive feature.

In case you do not wish to have a responsive design, well, you are free to switch off responsiveness in the settings page!

5. Extend Visual Composer

As Visual Composer is extremely friendly to both user and developer, extending it by adding new content elements is super easy to carry out. Visual Composer was developed with thoughts given to the needs of the third party developers and theme authors. Therefore, if you want to further extend your Visual Composer-supported WordPress theme, you can do so right from your functions.php file by modifying default content elements or adding your own shortcodes to the Visual Composer’s drag and drop interface.

Clueless about how to work that magic? Well, the answer is to use built-in methods to guide the Visual Composer how it should work with new content elements or shortcode in this case. Within a few minutes, you will successfully extend Visual Composer. However, remember to use the well developed and structured API to expand your or your customers WordPress borders.

6. Advanced Grid Builder

Visual Composer: A Powerful WordPress Page Builder for Any Theme and Layout

Apart from the awesome features above, Visual Composer also offers modern Grid Builder and grid elements. These goodies serve to display posts, portfolio, media or even custom post types easily and in the most breath-taking way. Having more than 40 pre-defined grid element styles, content elements and grid options, Visual Composer never fails to prove it is the best one of its kind. Such activities as controlling gaps and width, adding filters and paging from pre-defined styles, filtering and controlling output, etc. would be easier than ever. Use the new Visual Composer grid and build anything you want!

To give you the best experience, Visual Composer has categorized its grid elements into different meaningful groups which have distinct options:

Post Grid
Post Masonry Grid
Media Grid
Media Masonry Grid

With this feature, you can display your portfolio, blog posts or media gallery within a few clicks. As Visual Composer grid elements work perfectly well with custom post types, especially the renowned Woo Commerce, you can show your products in a beautiful grid or list by using predefined grid element or modifying it as you wish.

Final Thoughts

Of course, there are many more features of Visual Composer that I have not mentioned in the part above yet also truly amazing. What I want to convey is that choosing Visual Composer can really be one of the best decisions you ever make in your WordPress career! To finish our article, let’s have a quick review on everything we have gone through:

Price: Compared to its competitors, Visual Composer is so much cheaper yet have a lot more features!
Features: Do I need to start over again? No, I suppose, since I have introduced to you almost all the nice features of the plugin. Except from the two downsides (the lack of options to insert widgets and the occasional temperamental function of the front-end editor), I see no reason to turn down such a page builder plugin!
Usability: “Easy-to-use” is the phrase I definitely use to describe the interface on the back-end and the front-end of the plugin!
Support: WP Bakery offers great support for whoever purchase their pride-and-joy. That is not to mention the regular updates with bunches of new features!
Speed: Some people wonder if these many content elements will slow down their websites. The answer is absolutely no! Thousands fastest websites on the globe use Visual Composer, so you can count on me when I say every element of it loads very effectively!

Above there is everything I have to say about one of the greatest inventions of the WordPress community, now it is your time to decide whether to join this greatness. In case you still need to be convinced a little more, why don’t you try and feel for yourself?

August 18 2016

How to Build Beautiful Layouts in WordPress with Tailor Page Builder

Peter Tutorials 0

Are you struggling to customize your WordPress themes look and layout by editing code and CSS styling? It can be a hard work, difficult and sometimes nearly impossible task if you don’t have enough knowledge.

There are easier ways.

You probably heard of page builders right?

If you want to use WordPress page builders there are a lot of both free and premium to choose between. Some well-known WordPress page builders, are, for example, Visual Composer, Page Builder by SiteOrigin, MotoPress Content Editor, and Themify Builder to mention a few.

Making use of the Page Builder which almost comes with drag and drop features, can facilitate and cuts down on the time when creating custom layouts into WordPress. Furthermore, there are both front-end and backend builders you can use and which is best I leave unsaid. It is really a matter of what you like and doesn’t like that is the decisive factor.

Today I take a closer look at an exciting new WordPress Page Builder named Tailor. This is a free frontend page builder for WordPress that features a simple and intuitive drag and drop interface that makes it easy to build beautiful layouts for your content.

Tailor Page Builder

Tailor is a free WordPress plugin which can be downloaded from the WordPress Plugin Directory and be used freely for your websites and projects.

First of all, to get everything started the easiest way possible, I recommend you:

Main Features

Add elements and create columns instantly in a single drag and drop movement.
Copy elements anywhere on the page by dragging and holding the Shift key.
Move content independently and have it adopt the style of its parent elements!
Save one or more elements as templates, then drag and drop them onto any page.
Change the appearance of any element using a set of carefully selected options.
Undo and redo actions using the History panel (or keyboard shortcuts).
Control global layout settings in the Customizer.
Control page specific layout settings and add custom CSS and JavaScript.
Preview your layouts on different device sizes and manage responsive behavior.

By the way: Tailor works with any theme so you don’t have to worry about any compatibility problems with your themes.

Let’s Go:

The first thing you need to do is install the Tailor Page Builder plugin.

Login to your WordPress dashboard.
Navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
Search for ‘Tailor’.
Activate Tailor from your Plugins page.

Once Activated

Visit ‘Settings > Tailor’ to configure:
Allowable post types and user roles.
Element and feature settings.
Icon kits. (Learn how to Adding a custom icon kit)

Build Beautiful Layouts in WordPress with Tailor Page Builder

To get additional information and learn what and how the Elements, Templates, Customizer, Device Preview and more works I suggest you read the Getting Started Guide.

The features you probably will work mostly with to build or customize layouts and content are:

Elements

Build Beautiful Layouts in WordPress with Tailor Page Builder

Tailor is built on the premise that content is the most important aspect of any website. Conceptually, there are three types of elements that are especially relevant:

1. Basic content. Examples include standard HTML and multimedia content (as provided through the default WordPress editor), custom image galleries and buttons.

2. Wrappers, which contain one or more content elements and serve to provide context or style. Examples include boxes, cards and hero sections.

3. Containers, which contain one or more child elements. Examples include tabs, toggles, lists and row/column structures.

Templates

Templates can be created from a single element, a collection of elements or the entire page. Once you have one or more templates available, you simply drag them from the templates list into the desired position on the page.

Let’s Start Tailoring

The easiest way to begin Tailoring a page or post is to select the Tailor this Page option from the Admin Bar. You can do this from the administrator backend when editing a page or post:

Build Beautiful Layouts in WordPress with Tailor Page Builder

Alternatively, you can also start Tailoring from the page or post list in the admin area:

Build Beautiful Layouts in WordPress with Tailor Page Builder

When you open up Tailor I’m sure you recognize the interface as it is very similar to the Live Customizer. Found in many WordPress themes nowadays.

Everything is pretty much self-explanatory and if you click on the Elements tab you fire up all the elements of Tailor you can insert into your post or page.

To test the Tailor I add some elements to a post. I start by adding a Box. Drag and drop the box to any location in your post or page. To edit the title, text, colors and more clicks you just within the box and select Edit. Customize and live preview your changes, and when you are satisfied, hit the Apply button.

Actually, it’s not more difficult than this.

Box

Build Beautiful Layouts in WordPress with Tailor Page Builder

Button

Why not a colorful button to capture the visitor’s attention.

Carousel

Or why not a carousel / slider with a few images to present your products.

Build Beautiful Layouts in WordPress with Tailor Page Builder

Grid

Furthermore, content or images in Gridview always stand out.

Build Beautiful Layouts in WordPress with Tailor Page Builder

I think you get a hang of it, right?

The result looks great and it is also very fun customizing and tailoring posts and pages to add cool features in a very simple way. No greater knowledge is required and you don’t need to edit any code at all.

Templates

To quickly add certain elements with your previous settings you can save elements like your inserted Box, Button, Carousel or Grid as templates.

Build Beautiful Layouts in WordPress with Tailor Page Builder

Next time you are tailoring the content of a post or page just click the Template tab in the menu and drag and drop your saved templates to any location in your post or page. This feature can save a lot of time, and you can do other stuff like writing dazzling blog posts!

There are more features you can make use of. Therefore, I recommend you begin to go through the Getting Started Guide to get a grip of the Tailor Page Builder features and capabilities. Or why not take a look at a video? How to Creating parallax sections in WordPress with Tailor page builder.

Wrapping up

In conclusion, I have thoroughly gone through the Tailor Page Builder plugin with its features and capabilities and I must say I am pleasantly surprised.

First of all, Tailor is a very easy-to-use plugin and suitable for both beginners and for more advanced users to build attractive posts and page layouts that really stand out from the crowd.

A big plus is that the interface is similar to the Live Customizer as so many WordPress users are accustomed to, so no surprises await but rather a recognition factor. Which makes you easily get started, and I promise it’s very much fun to using Tailor to boost up your posts and pages with cool features.