Why Use Drag And Drop Builders On Your Site?

Why Use Drag And Drop Builders On Your Site?

One of the questions I get all the time is "Why is my site so ugly". This is easily remedied by using a nice theme. However, drag and drop builders help to add that additional pizzaz most are looking for.

WordPress Themes

Word press comes with themes but once you get to building your site you are going to want to move to a nicer theme. Wealthy Affiliate has a bunches of different themes to choose from and they will add that little added spark to your site.

This is great, however, many will get frustrated when they start to build a page and can't get the look they want. How many times have you wanted more than one column on your page or you want an image on the left and text on the right. How about the countdown timer, additional space be tween sections, or the video to the right and bullet points with fancy check boxes to the left.

Yes, these are all common wants and if your theme comes with a drag n drop builder like cornerstone, or elementor you will have more options to build fancy pages. But most themes don't come with a drag and drop builder and for that you will need a plugin.

WordPress Plugins

Most of these builders come in the form of a plugin that is added as part of your theme. You can also purchase many of these plugins and just add them to your site and use the theme you have.

My personal favorites are Optimize Press, Cornerstone, and Elementor. All of these allow the drag and drop builders.

Drag and Drop Builders

(Image from Optimize Press Plugin)

When you use a premium drag and drop builder they will offer you page options that you can start with then tweak to your hearts content. The image above is the new page builder screen in Optimize Press.

But the real power comes in the ability to add elements to your site.

Elements are little pieces of code that can be added using drag and drop and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors.

This is where you can add many kinds of elements to your page that give it that extra pizzaz that I was talking about earlier.

(Elements in Optimize Press)

As you can see in the image above this is a small sample of different elements you can add. Here are some additional elements that drag and drop builders let you add.

• 2 column text
  
• Affiliate Page Snippets
  
• Arrows
  
• Audio Players
  
• Bullet Blocks
  
• Buttons
  
• Calendars
  
• Content Toggles
  
• Countdown Timers
  
• Course Description Blocks
  
• Custom HTML
  
• Dividers
  
• Dynamic Dates
  
• Facebook Comments
  
• Feature Blocks
  
• File Downloads
  
• Formatted Headlines
  
• Special Image Features
  
• Javascript
  
• Navigation
  
• Opt-in Boxes
  
• Pricing Grapics
  
• Progress Bars
  
• Q&A Elements
  
• Social Sharing Features
  
• Tabs
  
• Testimonials
  
• Vertical Spacing
  
• Video Players
  

This is just a small sample and you can see there are a bunches of nice features that can be added to your pages using drag n drop builders.

Tying Up The Loose Ends

As you can see using a drag and drop builder will take your site to the next level. This is how many of the top marketers get those really nice pages that you drool over.

If you have any questions about Drag and Drop Builders or just have something to add put it in the comments below. If you found this post to be informative and you think others should see it then click the like button.

Till Next Time...

- Glen B