Best Drag and Drop WordPress Page Builders Compared
By: Jesus Mcdonald
Tags: Wordpress Page Builder, Elementor Page Builder, Divi Page Builder, Marketing, WordPress

Are you considering a website redesign? Doing the redesign yourself? Hiring a website designer or website design company to tackle the redesign?

These are things that entrepreneurs and marketing professionals think about when it’s time to update their website, usually around the fall and winter seasons.

One thing is for sure, no matter what avenue you go down, you should choose a website builder because they make the task of creation and customization of websites an easy job. In fact, it pays off learning the tricks of the trade via drag and drop website builders and therefore accomplishing the job in a jiffy.

A common question we get asked is, “what are the best drag and drop WordPress page builders”?

The decision to choose the most ideal page builder depends substantially on the exact solution that you require for your needs. In terms of comparison of the best ones, the parameters are flexibility, design output, ease of use, and so on.

So, let’s take a look at the ones the market is currently flooded with:

Beaver Builder

Considered as one of the premier drag and drop WordPress page builder, Beaver stands out for being swift and having a built-in on-boarding tour to get users acquainted with the interface.

Almost all the changes that you add after bringing certain elements located at the right sidebar can easily be seen by you once you drop them in. Try clicking on any element and editing the properties and you’ll see the results for yourself. In fact, there are easy-to-learn modules that will help you insert backgrounds, content blocks, carousels, sliders, buttons, content blocks, and more; which means you don’t need a website developer or website development company to do the work.

One of the best aspects of Beaver is that almost all the major WordPress designs and themes are present so as to allow you to have complete control over the content. Even when you stop using Beaver, the content gets ported to the WordPress editor, better known as the WYSIWYG editor. Compatible even with the new WordPress version, the price comes at $99 for several sites.

Divi

This one is made by famous WordPress themes and plugins organization, called Elegant Themes. The Divi builder is flexible enough to work on almost all types of WordPress websites. You get innumerable possibilities to create the most sophisticated and advanced layouts and without knowing anything about coding.

A great thing about Divi is the feasible pricing. For a single price, the theme, page builder, and all other forms of products can be beneficial to users. The yearly plan is about $89 (but lifetime plans are also available).

Elementor

How many drag and drop options would provide you something like seeing the changes that you make live and you go on editing? Well… Elementor does! This is a live page builder, where you create sections and find the exact number of columns meant for each section. You can also get the widgets from the left panel to the section. The site comes with multiple widget options and the most commonly used website elements.

Every widget here has its characteristic appeal as per the setting. Be prepared to choose from the plethora of options like basic image, text widgets, and advanced ones like sliders, icons, social media, tabs, accordions, and more. The page builder is $49 for a single site license.

Visual Composer Website builder

In order to make custom website layouts hassle-free, look no further than Visual Composer Website Builder. You can get access to several out-of-the-box content elements, high-end templates, and a number of robust features, so as to make the perfect website. Much like Beaver and Divi, this one also offers a frontend editing experience to design the website.

Themify Builder

The builder contains 60 pre-built layouts, animation effects, and more to help facilitate an array of choices for the user. So you can very quickly build amazing pages, without having to resort to the help of professional website developers or start right from the get-go. Just import the layouts, replace images and text and the work will be done in a jiffy!

Page Builder by SiteOrigin

Highly popular for more than a million active installations, this wins the title chiefly because of its price (it’s free!). You can find this available as a completely functional free builder. However, there are few complications in terms of its use, so new users might take some more time to get habituated to it. But once you’ve mastered the art, you can download and install any widget of your choice and convenience.

For me, Divi, Elementor, and Oxygen are solid page builders and we use them the most with our clients. They do a phenomenal job when it comes to getting the job done and website speed. These builders also provide our clients with a user-friendly experience on the backend so they can make any changes they would like. We also create how-to videos for you and your team so you know how to update content on the site and more. It doesn’t matter if you are an entrepreneur or a marketing professional that knows how to code or not, we got you covered because we build websites that are simple for all our clients.

Bottom line: What’s the recommendation?

In a nutshell, it would be between Divi or Elementor. Given the range of options they provide and the simplicity in use, both are no doubt the most popular. If you’re ready to spend some extra bucks, go for them. It’s worth the investment. If you have any questions or need some help, give me a holler.