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The 5 Most Popular WordPress Page Builders (Drag and Drop) for 2022
The WordPress page builder has been very popular for years and can also be used if you choose to have a WordPress website created.
Why would you use a WordPress Page Builder plugin?
#1 You see the result visually right away
A page builder usually works in a very visual way with the so-called ‘drag and drop’ method. You simply drag the element you want into your website and immediately see the result of the changes.
#2 Various themes available
Through a theme builder or website templates, you can easily copy an entire site with dummy images and content. You only need to make minimal adjustments to the content to customize it to your own.
#3 Quickly and easily build a complete websit
With the drag-and-drop editor, it is incredibly easy to add, remove, and edit blocks and sections. This gives you full control over the layout of landing pages, blog posts, footers, headers, and sidebars.
Overview of the Most Popular Page Builders in 2022
As expected, the options for WordPress are immense, but here we focus on the 5 most popular page builders for 2022.
#1 SeedProd
If you’re looking for an all-in-one solution that’s easy to use and integrates seamlessly with your WordPress site, SeedProd is an excellent choice.
With this plugin, you can create landing pages for your website or even your entire website in no time. You can choose from various beautiful website templates.

Let’s take a look at some of the features:
Quickly Build High-Converting Landing Pages: SeedProd is a full-fledged landing page builder tool with a drag-and-drop interface, making it easy to create high-converting landing pages.
Live Previews and Version Control: You can adjust content in real-time and view the website exactly as your visitors would see it with live preview and version control.
Coming Soon, 404, and Maintenance Mode Pages: With just one click, you can put the website in “coming soon,” “404,” or “maintenance” mode, and go live when you’re ready.
Intuitive Theme Builder: Import and customize website themes with full control over pages, posts, headers, footers, and sidebars.
Landing Page Templates: Choose from more than 100+ beautiful templates that make it easy to create a landing page for your site.
Email Marketing Integrations: SeedProd integrates with all popular email marketing plugins and software, including MailChimp, AWeber, GetResponse, ConvertKit, Zapier, and more.
Spam Protection: Google Recaptcha helps detect bots that might annoy your users or spam content.
Access Management: You can choose to display or hide specific sections or pages of your site.
Make sure to check out the templates for inspiration!
#2 Divi
Divi’s main differentiator is the fact that it is a “multifunctional theme”.
Instead of offering just one design to customize, it provides a complete range of options to style any website however you like. It’s like getting a LEGO block set and the freedom to build whatever you want.
At the same time, it offers a graphical user interface that allows anyone to design a site, even without coding experience. If you want to tweak things further and know how to use CSS, Divi lets you do that as well.

The main benefits of Divi are:
- No CSS and PHP needed
- Drag-and-drop
- Real-time previews
- Weekly new layouts with easy import option
- WooCommerce compatibility
- Responsive website design
- SEO-ready
A/B conversion testing: Another reason why people give Divi positive reviews is because you can test different designs simultaneously. This way, you can see which of your designs will lead to higher conversions.
Other WordPress themes don’t offer all of these features together. Sometimes you need to purchase third-party plugins to use these features.
Nothing is perfect, and there are a few disadvantages:
- Shortcode lock-in: Divi relies heavily on shortcodes. This lock-in means that your site becomes a mess if you decide not to use Divi anymore.
- Overwhelming options: Sometimes it can be difficult to find exactly how to do something.
#3 Visual Composer
Visual Composer is a great tool for both beginners and developers. A beginner can quickly and easily create a website, while developers can improve their workflow and create custom content elements and flexible themes.
Visual Composer Website Builder offers 7 benefits:
- Design websites using a live frontend editor with drag-and-drop functionality to instantly see the final result.
- Access to the free cloud marketplace (Visual Composer Hub) to download ready-made content elements, templates, and extensions.
- Design responsive websites with automatic responsiveness settings or adjust the layout for any device type.
- Visual Composer Premium subscription offers a complete experience for building websites:
- Access to compatibility blocks with the most popular WordPress plugins and services.
- Access to icon libraries and background effects.
- Design pages with dynamic content from WordPress fields, custom fields, WooCommerce, and ACF.
In addition, Visual Composer Website Builder regularly performs performance and compatibility tests with WP Engine services to ensure high performance and good caching. The clean code output from Visual Composer and the performance from WP Engine have a positive impact on site speed and SEO ranking.

#4 Elementor Pro
Elementor Pro is one of the most popular WordPress Page Builders on the market. It’s a visual drag-and-drop editor that allows you to build a website in no time.
This approach offers several advantages:
- No technical knowledge required to create beautiful pages.
- No need to switch between a backend editor and live preview – you work directly in the view your visitors will see.
- Editing text is simple – just click and type directly in the live preview of the page.
- All designs are responsive, meaning they look great on any device.
Additional Features:
- Widgets – Think of these as content blocks. For example, text is a widget, an image is a widget, and a button is a widget.
- Design options – For each content element, you get a detailed set of controls to define its appearance.
- Layout options – Use as many “sections” and “columns” as you need to create the perfect layout.

#5 Beaver Builder
Beaver Builder is one of the most established page builders for WordPress. Using its visual, drag-and-drop interface, you can quickly create a design without writing a single line of code. Building a responsive website is simple with Beaver Builder.
It is also one of the most lightweight page builders in terms of built-in optimization, which is excellent from a performance perspective.
While Beaver Builder has many positives, it’s not perfect. It lacks some of the features, design options, and templates that other popular builders like Elementor and Divi offer.

Which Page Builder Does Hybrid Use?
If you have a website created by Hybrid, you can choose to have your WordPress site custom-built or start with a pre-designed theme.
#1 ACF Flexible Content
For fully custom development, Hybrid does not use a traditional page builder plugin. Instead, we build each page using the ACF Flexible Content WordPress extension.
This approach is ideal for businesses and organizations that require a website tailored to their branding while offering flexibility for dynamic content.
You can learn more about this method in our blog post about choosing the right WordPress page builder!
#2 Themes: Avada and BeTheme
If you’re looking for a small website with fixed content, we opt for a theme that allows us to reuse blocks to build different pages efficiently.
These themes often use one of the previously mentioned page builders or come with their own custom-built page editor, enabling us to quickly create a new website.
Our preferred options for ease of use are Avada and BeTheme. Both themes do not rely on the page builders mentioned earlier but instead have their own built-in editors designed for simplicity and efficiency.
Interested in discovering the most popular WordPress themes? Read all about it in our blog article!
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Still need help making a decision? Or haven’t found exactly what you’re looking for? Contact us for a free consultation and assistance with building your new WordPress website.
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