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You are here: Home / plugins / 13 Page builder plugins – a summary of Pippin’s critical review

13 Page builder plugins – a summary of Pippin’s critical review

A summary of 13 Page builder plugins, 6 of which are freely available from wordpress.org

Background

In September 2016, Pippin Williamson wrote a comprehensive review of 13 Page builder plugins. Prompted by a tweet from Keith Devon, and a reply from Kimb Jones I re-read Pippin’s review. Realising that I had my own requirements for a Page builder and that it would take a long time to perform my own review I have decided to:
  • Attempt to summarise the review.
  • Itemise my requirements for a Page builder plugin.
  • Have a look at one or two of the plugins myself.
  • And perhaps make a few comments of my own.
Then I realised that would still take too long to do all of that, so here’s the summary and links to the six free WordPress plugins. The rest will have to come later.

Summary of 13 Page builder plugins

This is my summary gleaned from reading WordPress Page builder plugins: a critical review.
RequirementTailorPage-Builder-SandwichElementorPootleLive ComposerSiteOriginBeaverVisual ComposerFusionDiviThriveBrixConductor
Easy to use
Nicely styled?
Front-end editor
Visual/text/builder toggle???
Embedded shortcodes?
open / close shortcode compatible?
shortcode styles and scripts???????
Compatible with ‘the_content’?????
All content retained after deactivation???
Lock-in effect (e.g. shortcodes)???
Features? Content & Layoutsome?????
Dependencies?y ??
Pippin would use??

6 free Page builder plugins from WordPress.org

Plugin name and descriptionPlugin linksVersion, total downloads, last update, tested
Tailor Page Builder
Build beautiful layouts for your content faster and easier than ever before using your favourite theme!
tailor
home
1.8.2
59,122
November 24, 2017
4.9.17
Page Builder Sandwich – Front-End Page Builder
Page Builder Sandwich is the friendliest drag and drop landing page builder for front-end editing.
page-builder-sandwich
home
4.5.4
188,509
September 19, 2020
5.5.4
Elementor Website Builder
The Elementor Website Builder has it all: drag and drop page builder, pixel perfect design, mobile responsive editing, and more. Get started now!
elementor
home
3.1.4
101,888,897
March 10, 2021
5.7.1
Pootle Pagebuilder – WordPress Page builder
Pootle Pagebuilder is a front-end, drag and drop page builder that makes it easy to create beautiful WordPress pages and posts.
pootle-page-builder
home
5.7.0
95,738
March 26, 2021
5.7.0
Page Builder: Live Composer
Page builder for WordPress with drag and drop header/footer editing, responsive settings, and animations. Compatible with Gutenberg block editor.
live-composer-page-builder
home
1.5.9
1,238,850
November 10, 2020
5.5.4
Page Builder by SiteOrigin
Build responsive page layouts using the widgets you know and love using this simple drag and drop page builder.
siteorigin-panels
home
2.11.8
31,542,285
March 24, 2021
5.7.1

References

  • WordPress Page builder plugins: a critical review
  • The 20 best drag and drop page builder WordPress plugins

Conclusions

I haven’t made any conclusions yet. I’m still considering my requirements… I’ve started drafting another post. I’ll finish with some questions for you to think about.
  • What requirements do you have for a Page builder?
  • Do you already have a site/theme built with a Page builder and you want to change to a different one?
  • Is there a lot of content that’s dependent on the Page builder?
  • How would you go about migrating?
  • What will you do if your current Page builder stopped working?

Published: March 3, 2017 | Last updated: March 20, 2017

Filed Under: plugins Tagged With: Page builder, page layout

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