Our Favorite WordPress Page Builders
WordPress is used by over 43% of all websites on the web, and used by 65% of all websites using a CMS (Content Management System). Creating and managing a web site quickly and being able to manage that web site efficiently is often done using a page builder.
We have tried all of these page builders to manage our clients web sites with our web site development services. Here we are sharing our highlights about the Top 10 WordPress Page Builders for 2023.
What is a WordPress Page Builder?
Before we get started, some context would be helpful to know a little more about Page Builders and how they can benefit your web site.
A WordPress Page builder is a Plug-in which allows a WordPress web site to be designed, built, edited and customized without writing any code.
Page builders often pick up on the site style and responsiveness automatically allowing for easy creation of pages because the built-in components of the page builder.
What are the Benefits of Using a Page Builder?
A Page builder provides a framework for adding, editing and customizing many aspects of a website with no code.
- Design and build websites with little to no coding knowledge
- Build web pages with no code
- Fast web site and web page building
- Add tools like forms easily with little to no code
- The ability to use pre-built templates for efficient styling
- Switch themes easily and with minimal impact
The result for web sites using a Page Builder is easy to use, flexible and efficient web page building.
Onward to what we know and the highlights of each of these Page Builders.
Beaver Builder
Beaver Builder is an excellent premium page builder with numerous features and built in tools. Beaver Builder is ideal for beginners, or businesses looking to manage their own website easily with no code. With drag and drop page builders and the ability to save templates you won’t be starting from scratch when you create new pages.
Beaver Builder comes with a library of style components including buttons, elements, widgets, sliders, featured content boxes, accordion menus and more.
What We Love:
Beaver Builder comes with built-in elements and pre-designed elements to enable you to get a professionally looking web site up and running quickly. The premium paid versions of Beaver Builder comes in;
$99/yr – Standard Version
$199/yr – Professional Version
$147/yr – Optional Add-On Plugin
The Optional Plugin extends the Beaver Builder Page Builder abilities with numerous pre-designed drag and drop tools for beautifully designed websites that can be drag and drop easy to put together.
Elementor
Elementor is one of the most popular WordPress Page Builders. Elementor will allow you to build amazing web sites easily and quickly.
With an extensive library of a wide variety of elements, the ability to modify details of each element to suit your style and save elements as part of your web site theme Elementor gives the ability to transform your WordPress web site quickly and easily.
What We Love:
Free Version – An easy to use free version to get you started
$59/yr – Yearly professional version for 1 Web Site
$99/yr – Yearly Professional version for 3 Web Sites
$199/yr – Yearly Pro Version for use on up to 25 Web Sites
Ad-Ons – Many Elementor Add-Ons are available to extend the ability to drag and drop a wide variety of design elements.
Brizy Page Builder
Brizy allows you to build clean professional WordPress web site easily. Brizy comes with Global Styling which allows you to change styling elements on your entire web site at once. This allows you to make edits across your website without going through each page individually.
Brizy includes an Auto-Save Feature which allows for efficiency when it comes to making site changes and updates. This means as you update your web site when you save styling components on one page you are able to save those preferences.
What We love:
Even though Brizy is a relative new comer onto the WordPress Page Builder Scene, they have a robust page builder with both Free and Pro versions to meet your needs.
FREE Version – Get the basic elements and functions (no premium design templates)
$49/yr – Pro Version for 1 Web Site with Premium Elements, Pop-Ups, Theme Builder and More
$99/yr – Pro Version for up to 100 Web Sites with everything in the above version plus membership benefits
Avada Page Builder
Avada is an excellent All-In-One web site and WordPress page builder. Avada allows you to build every element of your website from Headers, to Footers to everything in between.
Avada has an intuitive interface making drag and drop page building easy. Avada is compatible with WooCommerce and many other Plugins and WordPress tools making it an excellent choice as a WordPress web site and page builder.
What We Love:
One of our favorite features is the many prebuilt themes and design elements making beautiful web sites easy to build.
Avada is also SEO friendly making creating your page SEO easy and a natural part of the page building process.
$69/yr – A great price to manage 1 Web Site
Divi Page Builder
Divi Page builder is a robust page builder with intuitive interface making building web sites easy..
Divi can replace the WordPress editor entirely so your team can build and manage beautiful web sites easy and efficiently.
The Divi builder comes with a large library of preset elements and a dynamic WYSIWYG editor allowing granular control and customizations of your web page.
Divi can be easily used by individuals and web designers alike.
What We Love:
Divi has a few stand out features including a video module to allow you to create dynamic video modules with one or more videos.
Divi also has a tool to embed audio files so visitors can listen directly from a web page.
Free 30 Day Trial
$89/yr – Single Pro License
$249 – Lifetime Access pro License
Themify
Themify is a well-established WordPress Page builder allowing you to customize most of the elements on your page. Themify has a drag and drop interface with a library of elements to easily create web sites quickly. One highlight of Themify is the ability to create pages using grids with dynamic elements.
Another great feature we love is the ability to add animations to web pages with drag and drop elements. This feature will enable you to give your pages and CTAs some punch with just the right amount of animation.
What We Love:
Themify is one of the best FREE WordPress builders on the market with a large library of elements to use with no cost to you. The Themify PRO version comes with a Theme, preset pages and templates, and a much larger library of drag and drop tools to build beautiful web sites.
FREE Version
$69/yr – Pro Version
Thrive Architect
Thrive Architect has been making amazing tools for WordPress for a long time. Thrive Architect is their page builder which is designed for speed. Thrive focuses on business web sites with tools for conversions. This is true for the Thrive Architect Page builder.
The intuitive interface supports a direct edit tool making it easy to edit an individual component.
What We Love:
Thrive Architect is very easy to use. This means someone who has no experience can easily create beautiful websites in no time
$97/yr – Thrive Builder with library
$167/yr – Thrive Architect Builder & Thrive Optimize Theme
$299/yr – Thrive Suite – Includes ALL themes along with Thrive Architect b Builder
WP Bakery Builder
WP Bakery Builder has been around for many years. With well over 4 million users it is one of the most popular Page Builders on the market. Part of this popularity is due to the fact that it has been built into many WordPress themes over the years.
Compatibility with most ANY WordPress theme is another reason for the popularity. WP Bakery Builder also includes a multitude of options and built in tools including a front/back end builder, grid builder, and skin builder for easy branding.
What We Love:
WP Bakery Builder is packed with features, the choice of a wide range of Add-Ons and starts at a low price point for the Pro Version, and you can’t beat that.
$59/yr – Single License Pro Version
$299/yr – Single License Pro Version Theme Integration
Oxygen Page Builder
There is no leaving Oxygen out of the mix. Oxygen brings the ability to create drag and drop web sites easily with some advanced technical tools for folks who do have more coding experience.
Oxygen includes a robust feature set with all of the fundamentals from a Header builder, global colors for easy branding, and the ability to customize WooCommerce shopping.
Oxygen includes tools for SEO friendly pages. Create advanced customizations on websites with the ability to write code on any page using Oxygen page builder.
What We Love:
Give your web pages some punch with easy to install animations. With a range of plans you can find the right package for your needs. Pricing is One Time. (not yearly)
$129 – Basic
$149 – WooCo
$179 – Ultimate
$229 – Includes Oxygen & Breakdance
Visual Composer
If you are in the market for a full featured Wordpres Page Builder Visual Composer has a lot to offer. Bring in unique and dynamic content to your pages with the Visual Composer Hub and Rich Content Elements.
Bring in WooCommerce product blocks, create dynamic buttons and eye catching CTAs with Visual Composer.
Build web sites with Visual Composers and customize every aspect of your website from Header to Footer.
What We Love
From the Theme Builder to the Pop-Up builder Visual Composer has a great deal to offer.
$49/yr – For 1 web site
$99/yr – For 5 web sites
$149/yr – For 20 web sites
Conclusion
Without a Doubt creating web sites and web pages can be intimidating. The sheer flexibility and seemingly unlimited options you have to build and customize WordPress web sites creates a unique challenge for building WordPress web sites.
Finding the right builder will go a long way in creating efficiencies in building websites and saving the costs of hiring developers to build from code.
