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When one talks about Pages Builders, Visual Composer seems to be the first one on people mind. but love them or hate them, these page builders are here to stay as it allow anyone to build a professional looking design using a user-friendly interface. Plus it helps the experience coders a way to create pages quickly.

Like the name suggests, you can build pages using a drag and drop feature. And since drag and drop page builders are WordPress plugins, they can be used with any WordPress theme .

So today’s WordPress Wednesday showing you 10 Alternative page builders from Visual Composer you can use and most of these plugins are 100% free to use also please note that this roundup isn’t a plugin review, it just here to showcase that their is always an alternative plugin to the most popular plugins.

1. Page Builder Sandwich – Free

PB-Page-Builder-Sandwich

Page Builder Sandwich is a free live front-end drag and drop page builder, that is unique from the rest. The developers have revolutionised things, and now you can build your site just the way how your visitors would see it, and not just from a visual representation of it. Now you just have to click on your content and start typing to edit anything.

2. Live Composer – Free

Live-Composer

Live Composer is the most innovative website builder for WordPress. You can create stunning custom page designs in real-time right on your page. It’s features a drag & drop front-end editing which is perfectly intuitive in the way you can create and customise great looking sites.

Live Composer is a great tool for designers, digital marketing specialists, theme developers and freelancers. Unlike other page builders, Live Composer is 100% free and open source.

3. Pace Builder – Free

Pace-Builder

Pace Builder is an easy to use and intuitive Page Builder that allows you to create pages & posts with responsive layouts and complete control on the content including CSS and Typography.

It includes modules which let you add/insert content, you can add your own custom modules with a little bit of coding knowledge, and it also supports widgets which can be inserted any where in your content.

4. King Composer – Free

King-Composer

King Composer is both a professional Back-End and Front-End page builder plugin. It comes complete with top-notch features embedded and a truly intuitive UI. W

KingComposer can save you both time and headache, allowing you to easily create pages like a true professional designer.

5. MotoPress – Free

MotoPress

MotoPress Content Editor enhances the standard WordPress editor and enables you to build websites visually. It’s complete solution for building responsive pages without coding and simply by dragging and dropping content elements. MotoPress plugin is easily extendable, fully responsive and works with all WordPress themes.

6. Tailor – Free

Tailor

Tailor is an easy to use frontend page builder for WordPress that features a simple and intuitive drag and drop interface.  Where you can instantly add elements, create columns in a single movement or copy elements by dragging and holding the shift key.

Because Tailor works with any theme, choosing one that you like is now the hardest part of creating a website. Plus it’s easy to extend as Tailor is open source and built based on WordPress’ coding standards.

It has a comprehensive set of actions and filters, an API for adding, changing or removing elements, a API for adding, changing or removing settings and controls and also a REST API to manage elements, templates and models.

7. Forge – Free

Forge

Creating amazing content shouldn’t be hard and that’s why Forge was created, it’s a front-end page builder that allows you to create stunning websites the easy way.

As it lets you use a drag & drop interface to create and move content around as you please. You work on the front-end of your website, seeing every change you make in real time.

8. Elementor – Free

elementor

Elementor is the fastest and the most advanced free frontend drag & drop page builder. Where you can create high-end, pixel perfect designed pages at record speeds. This plugin works with any theme, any page, any design.

It’s created full responsive pages, has no lag in it’s drag & drop functionality, Elementor has over 27 different type of widgets.

9.

Loft-Builder-PRO

LoftBuilder Pro is a drag & drop WordPress page builder. Where you can build responsive layouts, add text and media, and create engaging animations and interactions. Build your site page in minutes. Without coding.

You can edit every element on the page directly. Type text, change column width, drag and drop to change everything’s position… You know what’s going on your page while working.

It’s not a front-end editor. It’s an editor with front-end looking. That makes your published front-end pages always keep clean, without any extra codes.

10.

Cornerstone

Cornerstone is a 100% front-end WordPress page builder that will change the way you create pages. Gone are the days of having to click back and forth between a clunky admin panel and your site. Now you can see all of your work as you build the page, bringing fun back into the creative process.

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WordPress Wednesday – 10 Alternative Page Builders Plugins to Visual Composer

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  1. Patricia says

    Hi Tim!

    Congrats on such a cool article and thank you for including PBS to your list! Yep, you said it. We really want to revolutionize how people use WordPress. Right now, we just released PBS’s version of Shortcode Mapper. More feats coming up!

    All the best!

    -Patricia

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