6 Best Drag and Drop WordPress Page Builders (Compared)

Key Takeaways

if you're looking for an easy way to build and customize your wordpress site that's where drag and drop wordpress page builder plugins come in so today syed and i will cover these six wordpress page builder plugins that'll allow you to create edit and customize your website layout without writing any code which is perfect so if you're ready let's dive in number one is seed prod seed prod is by far my favorite drag and drop wordpress landing page builder but now it's even a website builder the reason why i pick it is number one is because it is really fast when it comes to website seo performance is everything and it's also everything when it comes to conversion now most of the wordpress website builders are known to slow down your website so when we build cprod we really put performance in mind and it lets you build the fastest website possible the cool thing is that now prod comes with a custom wordpress theme builder so you can build a completely custom wordpress theme from scratch no coding needed but if you don't want to build a completely custom theme you can also choose from over 150 beautiful pre-made landing page templates and edit it from there using just drag and drop there are pre-built templates for landing pages sales pages thank you pages webinar registration pages coming soon maintenance mode 404 custom login you name it we have covered every single use case in um in cpr now um the other thing that's really cool about cpr is that it comes built in with subscriber management and all the email marketing integration so you can connect it with your mailchimp account your active campaign account your convertkit account and it also comes with all of the powerful blocks that you would expect from any um advanced page builder like social profiles countdown timers contact forms buttons any any design element and the team is eprod uh another founder john turner and what he what he's really done is built in global style so you can make sure your brand styles and brand guidelines are followed on every single landing page that you create and this is why seed prod is used by over 1 million users and it is the number one page builder in our list and number two is beaver builder and it's a popular drag and drop page builder plug-in for wordpress in fact it's the one that we used to use for all of our tutorials before we moved over to cpr for all the reasons that cyan mentioned but you can get up and running quickly because they have a built-in onboarding tour that gets you familiar with their layout and how to build everything right from scratch they come with a live drag-and-drop interface so you can see exactly what's going on with your website as you're making the changes you just simply drag the elements on and you can get up and running quickly there is a module for everything that you can think of you got sliders carousels buttons and more they also come with over 30 design templates for landing pages that will make it easy to get started and get up and running a lot faster than starting from scratch and if you're wondering if it's compatible with the latest wordpress version the answer is yes beaver builder they updated to they've been updated to work alongside the gutenberg block editor with wordpress if we were to give out an a grade then we would give them an a plus simply because it's a popular builder and like i said it's what we used to use before we moved over to seed prod it comes with several pre-made templates to help you get started a lot of professionals they'll use beaver builder to create wordpress themes for their clients number three is divi db is by elegant themes a very very popular wordpress theme but what many people don't know it it's also a drag and drop page builder so you can either use the divi theme or the dvd page builder to create custom layouts to build all the different kind of websites and that's really why divi has become one of the most popular wordpress theme in the world now similar to seed prod and river builder the dv is a visual drag and drop builder a true busy big editor if you may what you see is what you get you drag and drop things exactly how you want you get a real-time preview of all the changes that you're making um and it comes with content modules like dozens of them dozens of different design layouts that you just create customize and you have a website ready within minutes um the really cool part about db is they also have a marketplace um where you can purchase various other dv add-ons or elegant theme add-ons um to enhance your site um if i was giving it a grade i would put it as a um only because sometimes when you're building the site with divi it will slow it down just a markup is a little bloated um but the good thing is that their pricing is um more competitive and they have a lifetime plan available number four is elementor and it is another powerful drag drop wordpress page builder out there you also have a live page builder plugin that means you can see every change that you make with elementor you just start by creating the sections and select the number of columns and you get started you can then drag and drop the widgets just like with all the other page builders they come with a ton of widgets including most of the most common ones like buttons and call outs and things like that you can do basic images text events accordions sliders elementor they'll also let you add widgets that are created by other wordpress plugins and if you don't want to build out your own layout they come with many ready to use templates for you you just point and click edit the item and you're good to go now we would give them an a because it's a popular page builder it's easy to use has a lot of extension ecosystem meaning just like with divi you can purchase any extensions that you want we will say that the code output is not as efficient either and it also would slow it down so that's something that you want to keep in mind when thinking about a page builder out there number five is visual composer if you've been using wordpress for a long time you know the visual composer has been around for a while and it's one of the user-friendly wordpress website editors that let you create custom website layouts of any kind it's a very simple drag and drop builder comes with tons of elements pre-made templates very much like a seed prod and beaver builder style um interface front and side editing um you know it's it was ahead of its time when it first came out um still really really powerful but the output is a little slower the code is a little slower but you know like any of the page builders we're talking about most of them have become custom theme builders they will let you edit all aspects of your website logo menus headers footer sidebar you can do um everything with uh with visual composer you can add slideshows you can add carousels and the whole lanyard it works well with all wordpress themes um just like every other page builder in our list it has support for gutenberg the google fonts yoast seo all the one seo um and everything else um the reason why uh you know i i rated the a minus is pretty much because uh it is it's an older platform and the output is slow number six is themifybuilder and this is another popular wordpress theme shop that offers built-in themify builders with all of their wordpress themes now if you don't want to use their themify theme then you can do the themify page builder plugin it's a simple highly intuitive page builder that comes with several ready to use modules like all of the others that you can add to your pages many of these modules will usually inquire you require you to install a wordpress plugin so if you don't want to bloat up your plugins area then keep keep that in mind the plugin itself though includes 40 plus pre-designed layouts for any kind of industry like a gym or a restaurant music photography even online shops you can import their layout with one click and then make the changes in minutes and they'll allow you to edit your pages from the admin area as well as the live site and then while editing you get to see exactly how your page is going to look as you're working through the theme building process now apart from that it comes with ready to use layouts like all the others that you can quickly apply we will overall give them a grade of a b they are a reliable page builder and while it comes with promising features there is a bit of a learning curve so you'll want to keep that in mind when looking at these as we compared some of the different drag and drop wordpress page builders out there the one thing came really clear that seed prod beaver builder and divi are the clear top three choices and we love the beaver builder we use them in many of our tutorials and we have recently moved over to seed prods so we definitely love those too so if you don't mind spending a little bit of money to get the best solution in the market with guaranteed support then you can go for any of these options and you really won't regret it