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Jennifer Maxwell
Last Updated: Mar 30, 2021
WordPress, a site-building platform that grew in popularity during the early 2000s blogging era, is built on simplicity and an incredible library of themes and plug-ins that expand a site’s functionality. In fact, WordPress is so beloved that it powers roughly a third of all websites, ranging from thousands of personal blogs to The New Yorker. If you don’t know a lick of code, WordPress is one of the best ways to spin up a website.
Most web hosts offer some form of WordPress-specific service, be it an optimized or a managed environment. Both types boast platforms specifically designed for WordPress. In each, the CMS comes preinstalled, so you don’t have to download and set up a WordPress installation as you’d do when using a traditional web hosting environment.
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Elementor
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Elementor is another powerful drag and drop WordPress page builder plugin.
It is a live page builder plugin which means you get to see your changes live as you edit it with Elementor. Simply start by creating sections and select the number of columns for each section.
You can then drag and drop widgets from the left panel to your section. Elementor comes with tons of widgets including most commonly used website elements.
From basic image and text widgets to advanced accordions, sliders, testimonials, icons, social media, tabs, etc. Each widget comes with its own settings.
Elementor will also let you add widgets created by other WordPress plugins.
Gutenberg Plugin
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Gutenberg is the block editor developed by WordPress and was released back in 2018 along with WordPress 5.0. Since Gutenberg’s release, it has been the default content editor when using WordPress.
The reason WordPress created Gutenberg was to improve the experience of designing, building, and publishing a website. The introduction of the modular blocks system, where you can place it anywhere, really helped towards achieving that goal.
That fact makes Gutenberg more than just a content editor; it’s a visual editor as well. Without the need for coding.
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