Nimble Page Builder vs STAGGS – Product Configurator Toolkit

What is Nimble Page Builder ? Nimble Page Builder is a fast and agile page builder plugin for WordPress. Nimble Builder uses the live customizer, native and powerful WordPress interface for real-time design. The plugin allows you to easily drag-and-drop modules like text-editor, post grids, images, contact forms, maps, icons, or ready-made sections and starter templates into any page of your site. You can edit your pages in real-time, and then click “publish” when you are happy with the result. Watch the video below to see how this demo page has been built. Live demos landing page with header and footer integration with the Customizr theme integration with the Hueman theme 404 page created with Nimble Builder Works on any page of your site and with all WordPress themes Nimble Builder allows you to insert sections in any context of your site : home page, single post or page, category or tag page, even search results or 404 pages. No only that, you can also decide to start designing from a blank page on any page of your site, and even create a custom header and footer. Nimble Builder uses native WordPress action hooks, which makes it compatible with all WordPress themes. Features overview Drag and drop neatly pre-designed sections and customize them in real-time preview. Works in any WordPress contexts : home, pages, posts, custom post types, archives, author pages, search page, … Create content, style, move / duplicate / remove elements in real-time preview. Save and reuse sections and templates. Site building : define site templates for pages, posts, archives, search page, author pages, 404 page. Many content modules available : classic text editor, image, column layouts, contact form, button, icons, map, html code, WordPress widget area, menu, and more. Insert engaging post grids on any page, looking great on desktop and mobile devices. Use full width image or video backgrounds for your sections, and enable a parallax effect. Easily customize your content specifically for mobile devices : change the responsive breakpoint, adapt font-size, spacing, alignment, column layouts, in real-time preview. Customize any text with Google Fonts. Add custom CSS to any specific page of your site ( and only to this page ) : post, page, archive, 404 page, WooCommerce product, etc. Export / Import : re-use your sections in other pages and between sites. Embed shortcodes from other plugins, and see the result in real-time preview. Nimble Builder automatically generates responsive HTML markup for a pixel-perfect rendering on smartphones and tablets. Nimble Builder leverages the WordPress live customizer features for auto-drafting and schedule publishing. You can safely build and save drafts of your content before deploying in production. Mind blowing performances 🚀 Nimble Builder pages load very fast, in particular on mobile devices. With a basic cache server configuration, the plugin gets an A grade on performance tests. Mobile first builder Nimble Builder is designed mobile-first. It uses a performant and lightweight flex CSS foundation which ensures perfect rendering on mobile devices. The plugin is an effective productivity tool, ideal for quickly sketching and publishing pages with sections and columns. Nimble Builder generates clean and fluid HTML markup that meets the highest SEO and accessibility standards. Content modules Headings WordPress text editor ( support blocks and shortcodes ) Image Button Icon Post Grid Image Carousel Contact Form Google Map Menu Social Profiles Divider Spacer Columns Quote Widget zone Accordion Shortcode Tabs ( coming soon ) … and more to come ! Getting started Once installed, Nimble Builder can be accessed in the WordPress live customizer. You can start creating your first section ! Documentation You’ll find a growing online knowledge base for Nimble builder here : Nimble builder documentation. Getting started with Nimble Page Builder for WordPress Technical requirements for Nimble Builder : server, browser, php version, WP version Designing for mobile devices with the WordPress Nimble Builder How to start building from a blank page with the WordPress Nimble Builder? How to build your WordPress header and footer with Nimble Builder ? How to set a parallax background for a section in WordPress with Nimble Builder ? How to enable reCAPTCHA protection against spam in your forms with Nimble Builder? How to change the page template with Nimble Builder ?

The STAGGS – Product Configurator Toolkit has everything you need to create stunning product configurators in WordPress and WooCommerce, right from your WordPress dashboard! The visual product configurators included 2D or 3D rendered images. The PRO version allows you to upload 3D GLB and GLTF models for the complete visual experience, including AR support. The product configurator plugin comes with stunning pre-built templates that you can use and customize to make your own! Apply your own brand logo, fonts, colors and icons to make the configurator truly yours. Getting started is really simple: create attributes, create a theme and build your configurable product. 👉 Interactive Guide: Get started using our guided tutorial 👉 Official Demo Links: Try out multiple Staggs configurator demos 👉 Learn More About Staggs (PRO): All the features of the Staggs product configurator PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR FOR WOOCOMMERCE If you have WooCommerce installed, you can create any configurator you like based on WooCommerce Simple products. Simply check the box ‘Enable Staggs Product Configurator’ and you can start building your configurator using the attributes and template. With WooCommerce installed, you can use the WooCommerce checkout system to let the customer directly pay at checkout. Read more about product configurators for WooCommerce PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR FOR WORDPRESS You can use the Staggs product configurator in WordPress too! WooCommerce is not required. In WordPress, you can build any configurator you like. We have created our own build-in product type for WordPress that you can use to create product configurators. Learn how you can build a product configurator in WordPress Note: there is no checkout system, so you can only create product configurators on a request quote basis using forms. You can also let customers directly send emails with the configured values. CUSTOM PRODUCT FIELDS FOR WOOCOMMERCE With STAGGS you don’t have to create full-fledged product configurators. You can also extend your simple products with custom product fields. Learn more about Product add-ons for WooCommerce by Staggs PLUGIN FEATURES The STAGGS Product Configurator Toolkit is packed with a lot of features: Stackable images: stack images on top of each other so you don’t have to create all possible variation product images yourselves Multiple product views: display your product from multiple angles Real-time price calculation: Charge additional costs for attribute options Collapsible attributes: Reduce configurator space by making your configurator attributes collapsible Configurator builder: easily create configurable products with attributes using our product configurator builder Customizer: make the product configurator truly blend in with the webshop. Customize the configurator template, colors, fonts, icons and apply custom CSS Shortcodes: Output your Staggs configurator anywhere on the product page you like Request quotes: link the configurator to a form (support for GravityForms, Contact Form 7, WP Forms, Ninja Forms and Fluent Forms) Contact via email: Directly open email client with selected configuration for inquiries Partial payments: Only charge a part of your total configuration costs at checkout Multi-language support: Translate your Staggs attributes into multiple languages Analytics: Track your most popular product configurations in the Staggs Analytics module 5+ ATTRIBUTE TYPES The configurator supports various types of attributes, including labels, user inputs, colors, fonts, links and even linked products. Image Input Color Font URL Linked product (pro) 10+ CUSTOM ATTRIBUTE FIELD TYPES The different attribute types can be paired with a display template to control how the options or inputs appear in the configurator form: Dropdown Option list Cards Image swatches Color swatches True/False Checkboxes Button group Text inputs Date input Number inputs Image upload (PRO) Related products (PRO) PRO FEATURES Our PRO features include: Conditional logic: Add conditional logic to your configurator attributes Inventory management: manage your inventory for individual attribute items Linked products: allow users to link WooCommerce products to your attribute options Multi-step configurator: Split up your configurator form into steps Advanced price calculations: Perform advanced price calculations based on formula’s and table prices Sharable links: Share active configuration as a link PDF downloads: Download active configuration as PDF Additional templates: horizontal popup and stepper template Image uploads: allow users to upload images and use preview in product image Related products add-on: allow users to add WooCommerce products to your configurable product Build 3D configurators: Use 3D product models in the product configurator (GLB and glTF) Change texture, color and variant of the 3D model Show/hide particular 3D model parts Update 3D camera zoom on option update Play 3D model animations Apply text or images AR view support Import/Export Tool: Easily import and export product attributes and edit attribute data in a sheet editor for convenient management PRE-BUILT CONFIGURATOR TEMPLATES The configurator plugin comes with four pre-built configurator templates for free Classic Template Full Template Floating Template Popup Template CUSTOM BLOCK FOR BLOCK THEMES The STAGGS configurator plugin comes with its own Gutenberg Block to add product configurator to your page. You will find the block in the Media category. Simply add the block to the page, select your configurable product and update the page. Now the configurator should be displayed. SHORTCODE SUPPORT FOR PAGE BUILDERS If you are using a page builder, you can use the following shortcodes to output the configurator on product pages: [staggs_configurator] to display complete configurator code; [staggs_configurator_popup_button] to display the popup trigger button (the popup is not visible by default). You can also choose to ‘design’ your own template, using each of the following shortcodes: [staggs_configurator_gallery] to display configurator image gallery; [staggs_configurator_form] to display the form containing all option groups and values; [staggs_configurator_totals] to display the add to cart or request invoice button; Learn how to display the product configurator in page builders Note: you can also use shortcodes on regular posts and pages, but you have to pass the product id as a parameter to the shortcode, like this: [staggs_configurator product_id="POST_ID"] You can find the POST_ID in your URL: post.php?post=[POST_ID] 3-STEP SETUP Getting started with the Staggs product configurator is simple and straight forward: Create your configuration attributes; Build your configuration using the created attributes on the product page; Change the configurator design by adding a template. RESPONSIVE DESIGN The Staggs product configurator templates are fully responsive and are embedded directly onto the page. You can build your configurator right from your WordPress dashboard and the configurator loads directly on the page. No need for embedded iframes. IMPROVED PRODUCT VISUALIZATION The Staggs product configurator can help you visualize changes in the product in multiple ways. You can add regular images that stack upon each other, display the image from multiple angles using multiple gallery images, use 3D rendered images of a product, or maximize the visualizations by creating a 3D configurator with AR support! STACKABLE IMAGES Save countless hours creating and uploading images for all of your product variations. Simply use our layered image preview that stacks all the images on top of each other. You even have control over where the image should go: always on top, at the bottom or maybe on layer four. You are in full control of how the product preview is going to look! SUPPORT FOR 3D CONFIGURATORS & AR MODE The Staggs product configurator comes with a lot of different visualization options. One of the PRO features is the support for 3D models and AR views. If you are looking for ways to take your product visualizations to the next level, you can create a 3D product configurator in WooCommerce with Staggs! WORKS WELL WITH OTHER PLUGINS We have added support for various other WordPress plugins, and we will keep expanding the list. Plugins we support at the moment of writing: Advanced Custom Fields PRO: Supercharge your Staggs admin panel with ACF PRO fields Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, WP Forms, Ninja Forms and Fluent Forms: link configurator to a form to request quotes Yoast Duplicate Post: Duplicate attributes to speed up your configurator building process WPML and Polylang: Translate configurator attributes Deposit & Partial payments: Charge a partial amount of the total configuration costs at checkout TablePress: manage price tables for attributes (pro version) Find complete list on our website. BUILT-IN ANALYTICS MODULE The best way to get to know your customers is to find out what they like most. The Staggs product configurator comes with a built-in analytics module that collects all the configurable products from the WooCommerce orders, so you get more insights in your customers. Note: this feature is not available for WordPress-only installations. A RELIABLE GROWING PLATFORM We have scheduled monthly updates to ensure the plugin stays up-to-date with the latest developments in the WordPress environment. You can read more about the latest updates on our updates page. We are also open to feature requests; so if you have ideas in mind, feel free to reach out! Getting Started Building a product configurator with Staggs is relatively simple: Create Staggs configurator attributes Go to the ‘Staggs’ tab in the admin menu Open the “Attributes” page and create configurator attributes Build your configurable product with the attributes For WordPress, go to ‘Staggs’ > Products and create new product For WooCommerce, go to ‘Products’ and add new WooCommerce Simple product. Also tick the box “Enable Staggs product configurator” Create a configurator template and customize its settings to complete the look Go to Staggs > Templates and create new template Go to your configuratable product and select template in the configurator builder Publish the product and enjoy! Need help? Read the documentation for a detailed guide