Beaver Builder Review

Beaver Builder is a feature-rich drag-and-drop page builder plugin that makes creating great-looking content in WordPress as hassle-free as possible.

• you can build custom posts and pages by dragging and dropping elements onto a canvas
• you don’t need to code anything by hand, and HTML knowledge isn’t required
• you can keep using your current WordPress theme
• you get to see the results of your work right away.

With all of the above, Beaver Builder should come in handy for the vast majority of users, site owners and WordPress developers. The main selling point is that it makes working with website content (and even creating websites from scratch) much faster and more efficient.

Beaver Builder actually tackles one of the main issues with WordPress as a platform: The fact that it’s not overly friendly towards users who have no experience with websites — especially those who want to create great-looking content on their own.

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Features and Benefits

• There’s full drag-and-drop support — you can arrange text and images on your pages freely.
• There’s full front-end editing, which means you’re effectively working on the final version of the page that your visitors see.
• There’s no need for coding, HTML or CSS knowledge.
• It works with any theme.
• It allows you to work with posts, pages and custom post types.
• There are more than 50 ready-made page templates available (for landing pages and various content pages).
• There are more than 30 content elements/modules to choose from when building your pages (headings, buttons, galleries and so on).
• The output is mobile-responsive and SEO-friendly.
• It’s compatible with WooCommerce, and includes WooCommerce content elements.
• There are import/export features, which means you can reuse your and/or other people’s designs.

You get to build whatever layout you wish, and you can use all of the typical content elements, such as headings, paragraphs, images, videos, columns, forms and more.

Pricing

 you can use it on an unlimited number of sites, regardless of the plan you choose.

The license option that makes the most sense here is either Standard or Pro. The Agency plan seems to only give you additional white labeling features, which I don’t see as all that valuable in most cases.

The main selling point of the Pro plan is Beaver Builder Theme. This can be useful if you’re planning to use Beaver Builder as the base for client sites you’re building from the ground up. However, for an existing site that already has a good theme, Standard is really going to be enough.

Pre-made Templates

If you don’t want to work on your pages from scratch, you can speed up the entire process by using some of Beaver Builder’s pre-made page templates.

Let’s come back to the top of the sidebar for a second. Right next to Modules and Rows there are two more tabs labeled Templates and Saved.

• Saved — is where you can store your own saved rows, columns and content modules, which is useful once you’ve been working with Beaver Builder for a while and have your personal library of favorite designs.
• Templates — is where you can find more than 50 pre-made page designs that you can import with one click.

Those templates are quite good looking and can come in handy whenever you need to build a landing page quickly. That being said, you should treat them more like a starting point than a final design.

As mentioned, importing these templates is really easy, and it only takes one click. Then, you can customize the design you’ve selected in the Beaver Builder interface.

Apart from landing pages, Beaver Builder also offers templates for content pages, such as about pages, contact, services, portfolio, team and so on.

Those can be particularly useful, since you don’t necessarily have to be too original when working on, say, an about page. You just want a design that works — and Beaver Builder gives you precisely that.

An important thing I want to point out is that if you’re using Beaver Builder with your current theme (not Beaver Builder Theme), then there are slight limitations as to what Beaver Builder can and can’t do.

Beaver Builder is just more functional in a real use case scenario, where you want to build a good-looking page that won’t glitch. What you pay for is quality and reliability.

That being said, the two groups of users who’ll benefit from Beaver Builder the most would probably be:

people who manage their own sites, and want to be able to create great-looking content all on their own

designers and developers building sites for clients.

One of Beaver Builder’s strongest points is its ease of use, and this makes it really beginner-friendly.

Chances are, even if you know nothing about building or managing websites, you’re still going to be able to create awesome content with Beaver Builder’s drag-and-drop features.

On top of that, the way Beaver Builder interacts with the user is really intuitive. It offers true front-end editing, which means that working on your content pages or landing pages is much like working from a Word document — what you see is what you get.

Then, we have the second group of users — designers and developers working on client projects. Here, the Beaver Builder Pro package can be the most useful. With Beaver Builder Theme and the Beaver Builder plugin together, you can craft new original websites really quickly.

Pros of Beaver Builder:

Lets you create pages in a visually stunning way.

Really easy to use. No learning curve at all.

Full drag-and-drop support and front-end editing.

The default typography looks really good — useful if you don’t have a feel for adjusting those things on your own.

You can use WordPress widgets inside Beaver Builder’s content blocks.

Offers great page templates to make building your landing pages and content pages quicker.

Cons of Beaver Builder:

It’s expensive. The cheapest plan is $99. Unless the Lite version is enough for you, in which case it’s $0.

No undo on Ctrl+Z/CMD+Z.

Beaver Builder can’t overcome the limitations of your theme. For example, if the theme doesn’t support full-width pages, you won’t be able to build full-width pages.

You can’t add custom CSS code to content modules.

Conclusion

Beaver Builder is the most easy to use drag and drop page builder plugin for WordPress. Without a doubt, it’s one of the most downloaded WordPress page builders in existence and is best suited for websites of all sizes. Its easy-to-use user interface makes it convenient for anyone to build a highly-customized WordPress website. It comes with all the powerful page building features you could ever ask for.

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