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Adecade ago, website creation was an area reserved only to those of us who had solid programming skills. Nowadays, anybody can build their own website.
There are a variety of website builders online – Wix, GoDaddy – that offer a wide range of options and templates, both free and paid, for your online businesses, galleries, blogs, etc.
WordPress is used by more than 60 million websites and it offers a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL that includes plugin architecture, a template system, and it’s used even in domains such as pervasive display systems (PDS).
Using WordPress‘s themes allows any user to change the look and functionality of a WordPress website without altering the site‘s core code or site content which comes in very handy.
WordPress also offers a wide range of plug-ins (55,286 available), allowing you to extend the features of any website or blog with ease. Using these plug-ins, the customization ability of your website is almost unlimited and you can use them for search engine optimization (SEO), client portals, content management ,features of content displaying and more.
Because of WordPress‘s popularity, most website builders let you set up your WordPress site easily and usually give you a more visualy pleasant experience with some added features.
So, let’s see what are the best website building software for WordPress.
Top 5 website design software options for WordPress
GoDaddy
GoDaddy Inc. is one of the world’s largest ‘web services’ companies. They were founded as a domain registrar but today they provide an entire range of services from web hosting to website builders.
Like many other companies, because of the popularity of using WordPress for setting up websites, GoDaddy created their own ”WordPress Hosting” product.
Even though GoDaddy’s specialty is not hosting (they started as a domain registrar) – their Website Builder for WordPress product competes with other companies on the market.
One of the biggest hurdles for new website owners is the learning curve of a new setup – dealing with settings, drop-downs and jargon. Their WordPress Hosting product has back end design, usability and ‘onboarding’ to help you with these issues.
GoDaddy provides SFTP ( Secure File Transfer Protocol) and staging areas on their upper plans and also provide WordPress specific support.
The simplicity of setting everything up takes away some of the stress of actually running your website and makes the WordPress installation ‘a one-click experience’ while offering plenty of web designs to get you inspired.
Go Daddy website builder for WordPress gives you the opportunity to choose the best visual setup weather you’re using it for your business or passion.
GoDaddy website builder key features:
- Professional imagery -great library of royalty-free photography and option to upload your own
- Swipe-to-style interface – easy to create and update the look of your site
- The ability to customize every part of your website’s pages with easy editable templates
- Professionally designed styles and beautifully coordinated color sets
- Easy set up to start selling online
- Easy to manage inventory – supports adding over 5000 products with a few clicks
- Support for all major credit cards, PayPal and even Apple Pay
- Flexible shipping
- Purchase e-mail reminders for customers that left something in their cart
- Easy blog creation without the need to install plug-ins
Pinegrow
Pinegrow is a Windows web editor that offers a quick solution for building responsive websites with live multi-page editing, CSS, SASS styling, CSS Grid Editor and smart components for WordPress.
Pinegrow key features:
- Visual control for CSS gradients and an entire library dedicated to gradient presets
- Smart drag & drop features
- Page libraries
- Element code edit support
- Page code editor
- Live editor for SASS and LESS without any external tools
- Active rules
- You can edit your pages for multiple device sizes
- Custom breakpoints which Pinegrow can detect by analyzing stylesheets
- Media queries
- You can define templates by using ‘master pages’ feature (Pro edition)
- Static CMS (Pro edition)
Pinegrow lets you create production-ready WordPress themes, and also exports the standard PHP WordPress files. You can preview PHP code, import WP content and add 200+ WP actions.
Pinegrow comes in 3 types of licences suiting different types of users – inviduals, companies and students with three subcategories for each one of them.
The ‘Standard’ version of any of these 3 options is suitable for building one-page websites, the ‘Pro’ version allows you to create multi-page websites with other added features like CMS. The ‘Pro with WordPress’ version can be used to easily create production-ready WordPress themes and all the futures included in the Pro edition.
Artisteer
Artisteer 4.3 is an easy-to-use web design generator for Windows that offers hundreds of design option and ability to export them to WordPress.
You can easily design awesome blogs and cool web templates in minutes without the need to learn Photoshop, CSS, or HTML, with the ability to include images and buttons to your newly created WordPress template.
It’s poweful tools allow you tho automatically solve any problems with image aliasing, web browser capability and other details enabling you to learn how to create professional HTML and CSS codes.
Artisteer can help you instantly create professional WordPress themes without struggling with Photoshop, Dreamweaver, HTML or CSS. It’s a powerful option even for people without any artistic talent or technical skills.
Elementor
Elementor is a very powerful and easy to use option for WordPress web designing. You can use this tool to create beautiful landing pages, design blogs, customize your online store, and more.
You can easily customize every part of your WordPress website using the build in Theme Builder and create custom headers, footers, etc.
Elementor has over 80 design elements and other dedicated tools to help you easily generate more traffic, leads and conversions without the use of any plug-ins.
It works perfectly with any theme & plugin in WordPress and it’s available in over 50 languages. The tool offers complete RTL (register-transfer level) and is fully compatible with translation plugins like WPML.
It offers pixel perfect design in WordPress producing 100% clean code allowing you to take your design vision and turn it into a stunning custom-made website
Elementor key features:
- Drag & drop feature to create the perfect layout
- Thousands of font options or ability to upload your own custom font
- CSS filters
- 18 different shape dividers
- Hover & scroll animations to increase site interactivity
- Text shadow
- Custom color picker
- Background gradient (BG)
- Mobile visibility
- 100+ free and Pro WordPress templates
Elementor is available in 3 versions:
- The ‘Personal‘ version can be used for only one site with features that include theme builder, premium support, WooCommerce Builder, 50+ Pro Widgets, 300+ Pro Templates and 1 year of updates
- The ‘Business‘ edition offers all the ‘Personal’ features but can be used for 3 sites
- The ‘Unlimited‘ version, as the name suggests, can be used for an unlimited number of sites.
Bold Grid
Bold Grid makes it easier than ever for you to start using WordPress by making the experience intuitive, adding features like drag & drop design, free built themes and more.
Bold Grid works as a suite of plugins for WordPress adding to its limited design choices and templates and offers more freedom regarding where you want your site to be hosted at a more accessible price.
Its built-in theme customizer makes it simple to change your layout or color scheme by using either pre-set color palettes or customize your own. The tool also allows you to choose background images and patterns to fit your taste.
The WordPress SEO plugin by BoldGrid analyzes the content on your page in real-time and makes recommendations in order for you to maintain the best SEO practices while writing content.
BoldGrid is compatible with almost any web host that works with WordPress and also offers a list of supporting hosting companies in order for you to the choose the best option for your needs.
One of the best features BoldGrid has to offer is the ability to access Cloud WordPress without using your computer storage space. You can use it to try new plugins, create temporary sites and customize themes without modifying your primary WordPress website.
Bold Grid key features:
- Drag and drop editor
- Themes customizer
- Mobile friendly themes
- Built-in, real time SEO analysis
- Support on 1000 + hosts and full hosting support
- Free WordPress themes and content
- Complete ownership of websites
- Limitless website features
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