Top 10 best wordpress page builder (Free and Paid)

What is Page Builder?

Page Builder is plugins that help you create pages with simple drag and drop operations and customize the interface as you like without knowing about code.

Is it challenging to use Page Builder? No, all plugins have been optimized as simply as possible so that everyone can get used to and use them.

With the previous Page Builder, you can design and customize the posts or pages on the website, and broader support such as header, footer, Woocommerce pages... you need to use Theme Builder.

However, most of the Page Builder plugins today have good support for the Theme Builder features, and the current most popular page builder to be mentioned here is Elementor.

Besides, there are many other plugins that in this article I will share with you. Depending on your needs, there will be the right choice.

Note: This is a randomly arranged list, so it is not based on the location to evaluate the quality of a plugin

7 quality assessment criteria 1 Page Builder

Before going into the 10 plugins below, you need to know about 7 criteria for evaluating a quality Page Builder plugin, such as:

• Quick and simple page builder with drag and drop operations
• Support customizing the interface on mobile devices
• Various templates, you can customize it quickly and the view is changed in real-time.
• Support for editing backend and frontend
• The plugin must be supportive and compatible with all WordPress themes
• Compatible with default WordPress editor (Gutenberg)
• Supports Theme Builder features

However, very few plugins can "float" all of the above criteria. The rest only focus on 1 or a few main features but still meet the essential features required of 1 Page builder.

1 / Thrive Architect

Visit Thrive Architect

Thrive is a very popular drag-and-drop page builder on WordPress.

Advantages :

• Integrate many diverse landing page templates
• Friendly interface on mobile devices, easy to get used to and use in a short time
• Manipulation, drag and drop features, and various interface adjustments
• Building Blocks on Thrive deliver high conversion rates

Disadvantages :

• The price is relatively high, paid annually, and there is a limit to installing and activating the license on the website
• Not as many features as other Page Builder plugins.

Cost : $ 19 / month - pay annually $ 228 and limit activation on 25 websites

2 / Live Composer

Access to Live Composer

This Page Builder is available on WordPress with both free version (with basic features) to the premium version for more advanced features.

Advantages :

• Simple drag and drop feature, easy to get used to and use
• Can edit both header/footer
• Compatible with default WordPress editor (Gutenberg editor)
• There are more features of a sales website such as product pages, payments, customers ...
• Friendly interface on mobile devices
• The cost for the extended version (paid) is not too high, the highest package, you will be activating an unlimited number of websites.

Disadvantages :

• When using the free version, sometimes errors will occur, and you will encounter ads during the use

In my opinion, with the free version, you can use the necessary features such as drag and drop, real-time view edits, support for interface design on all devices, in addition to allowing you to use up to 40 different widgets.

Cost: If you want to expand more features, you can upgrade for a yearly fee from $ 49 / site, $ 79/5 sites, and $ 99 with unlimited site activation.

3 / Elementor

Access to Elementor

With more than 5 million activations, Elementor is considered the best plugin for those looking for a quality page builder.

Currently, Elementor has the choice of using the free or paid version.

But Elementor Pro (paid) is highly appreciated and is seen as a plugin that can get all the features to build websites from AZ.

Advantages (I issue to the premium version):

• There are a lot of beautiful modules and templates that are constantly being updated and released.
• Very light, no matter how many features you design, the page will not affect page loading speed.
• Compatible with almost all interfaces today on WordPress
• Compatible with default WordPress editor
• Support customizing header, footer, Woocommerce (you will get all the features of a sales website)
• The interface is designed to be friendly to all devices.
• Countless widgets that you can freely use (depending on pro package)
• You will be supported and updated continuously for 1 year (the time that you renew the package)
• ...

In short, there are a lot of advantages, and as I have been using on other sites, this plugin has not seen any disadvantages to be listed here.

Cost: For 1 year of using Elementor Pro, it will cost $ 49 / site, $ 99/3 sites, $ 199/1000 sites.

4 / Site Origin

Visit Site Origin

Next is the Page Builder plugin you can use for free with over 1 million downloads & activations so far.

Site Origin allows you to create a page by dragging and dropping widgets (even widgets from other plugins).

Advantages :

• Free to use
• You can get more creative with CSS
• Allows you to use widgets from other plugins
• You can change the theme frequently without having to worry about plugin incompatibility
• Light, standard SEO interface, easy to get used to and manipulate

Disadvantages :

• Direct editing on the default WordPress interface is not as versatile as on other plugins
• Frontend editing is not supported
• Quite a few widgets

Cost : $ 29 / site, $ 49/5 sites & $ 99 unlimited activations

5 / Beaver Builder

Access to Beaver Builder

This page builder is considered to be the most easy-to-use Page Builder plugin to use in the majority of the rest. When using Beaver Builder, you will drag and drop directly on the WordPress frontend without programming knowledge.

You can refer to the demo built on Beaver.

Advantages :

• Free version available
• It offers many different modules
• There are more than 30 content and landing page templates available
• Operation is easy to get used to and use
• Compatible with most themes today on WordPress
• It doesn't take up a lot of hosting resources
• Interface friendly with all devices & SEO standards
• Compatible with default WordPress editor

Disadvantages :

• The price is relatively high

Cost: Price from $ 99 for unlimited site activation version

6 / SeedProd

Access to SeedProd

Next is the Page Builder plugin, which is evaluated positively with more than 1 million downloads & activations on WordPress.

Free version advantages :

• Free version available (but with limited features)
• Compatible with all current themes on WordPress
• Can create and design a sales page
• There are many landing page templates available for you to choose from and customize
• Friendly interface on all devices
• Integrating many other WordPress plugins to support SeedProd (like BuddyPress) further
• Can customize HTML, CSS

Paid version advantages :

• More than 100 landing page templates are more professional and beautiful.
• Subscribers can be managed.
• Integrate many other supportive plugins such as Mailchimp, Active Campaign, Getresponse, Converkit...
• There are additional security and anti-spam features.
• Add more professional blocks such as social, navigation, ranking, icon, share...

The downside is probably just that the price is relatively high compared to other plugins, but if you do not have the economic conditions and use all the features, then using the free version is enough.

Cost : From $ 39.5 / year (1 site) and up to $ 179.7 / year (unlimited)

7 / Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks - CoBlocks

Visit CoBlocks

CoBlocks is a plugin developed by GoDaddy, which helps you create Pages in blocks. Not only that, but you can also design the entire website with just this new WordPress editor.

Advantages :

• Free to use
• Diverse different blocks
• Drag and drop operation is simple, easy to get used to, and use in a short time
• Always support, listen to comments from users and bring the best quality updates

Disadvantages :

• Pretty picky interface, many incompatible interfaces easily lead to UI breakage
• Some HTML CSS files can slow page loading, but not significantly

Cost : Free

8 / Visual Composer

Access to Visual Composer

Visual Composer is the following popular Page Builder plugin I want to share. Easy to familiarize and manipulate interface makes it easy to design and customize the pages on the site.

Advantages :

• Compatible with all current themes on WordPress
• Friendly interfaces on today's devices, including mobile
• You can edit the header, footer, and widget on the WordPress interface
• Professional landing page and content templates available
• Supports Google Fonts
• It supports the necessary design features of a sales website
• Integrating many quality photo collections today for you to take and use
• HTML CSS can be customized

Disadvantage: the free version has quite limited features, forcing the paid version to get more genuine features

Cost : From $ 49/1 site for 1 year usage to $ 349/1000 sites for 1 year of usage

9 / Themify Builder

Visit Themify Builder

Next in our list of 10 best Page Bulder tools today on WordPress will be Themify Builder, a free and simple drag-and-drop site builder developed by the famous Themify company.

Advantages :

• Free to use, but with limited functionality
• Offer more than 40 templates, it's your job to choose and customize again
• Modules can be duplicated from page to page
• Maps Pro widget is added
• Added support for add-ons like Ưoocommerce, slider pro, contact, bar chart & progress bar

Disadvantages :

• The features you pay to use on Themify Builder can be used for free in other Page Builder plugins.
• Difficult to use and manipulate

Cost: Free up to $ 39 with higher features

10 / Divi

Visit Divi Builder

Divi is a popular page builder plugin developed by Elegant Themes. Still, Page Builder criteria to have, that is: drag-drop easy to get used and use.

Advantages :

• There are more than 20 templates available. You can choose and customize as you like
• Supports editing frontend, backend
• There are 46 different modules
• Customizable CSS
• Customizable support for professional users

Disadvantages :

• There may be conflicts with other themes or plugins, causing slow loading of the page
• Newbies are challenging to get used to and use

Cost: From $ 89 / year unlimited website activation

Conclude

Above are ten best Page Builder tools for WordPress that you can refer to and choose based on pros and cons.

I wish you choose the right tools. If you have any questions, please leave comments below the article. I will support you in the shortest time.