Nimble Page Builder vs Zion Builder – Website Builder for Speed & Creativity

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 ?

Zion Builder in action – TRY IT NOW WORDPRESS PAGE BUILDER FEATURES Elements and templates at your fingertips Add elements and pre-made templates right where you need them from the page builder “Add Elements” Popup. This popup gives access to pre-made layouts, elements, and to the Library System. Unified system of options Every element has the same easy to use and intuitive options pattern found in the “Element Options” panel. It consists of 3 main tabs: general, styling and advanced. The general tab contains options specific to the edited element, the style tab contains options that can be used to style every aspect of the element while the advanced tab contains options for changing the element name, id, animations and more. Global styles To apply the same styles on multiple elements, Global CSS Classes were implemented. They can be styled either from the page options panel or from the Element options panel. No coding skills required. Live responsive editing Visually decide the sizes, colors, or positioning of the elements for each screen. This means that any changes made to the mobile view, will only appear on that device and it will not affect the other devices, which will still maintain the original design options. Custom rich text on click The inline editor is triggered on text click and provides options such as font family, size, weight, spacing, alignment, or text-transform. It can also be dragged anywhere on the screen so it doesn’t interfere with the design. Gradient background Multiple gradients may be layered by making use of color opacity. When set a lower opacity of gradient colors, other gradient layers become visible. This is a powerful and unique feature that lets you add a distinctive touch to your design. History of actions Saving system, history of your actions, post revisions, users permissions, or easily discard changes give you the power of becoming the sole creator of your website. Shortcuts for undo and redo are also available. Design features The following extra design features come built-in the Panel Element Options: Blending Background, ColorPicker, Pseudo – selectors, Element’s motion control, Flexbox control, Powerful background image, Filters, Borders, Shadows, Typography, Transform, Transitions. Library system It contains the actions needed to import and export library parts and access to Zion library that provides hundreds of pre-made templates. Dragging size and spacing Live edit the margins, padding and size by dragging the element outline toolbar. Moving elements Repositioning the elements is done with simple dragging and dropping anywhere in the page or in the tree-view. A blueish line is the hint of the new position. Keyboard shortcuts The most used and intuitive keys were implemented to ensure the accessibility of user actions. Discard changes A unique feature of Zion Builder is the “display” of a green dot showing the options that have changed. No more looking around to check each option to see if it was changed. Top right toolbar shortcuts This toolbar appears only when hovering an element and gives the possibility to access the options panel, to save, hide, duplicate, or delete the element. Custom workspace The user is able to open, close, drag, and resize the panels according to his needs. The main panel can be dragged on the left or right side of the page. Right click actions By right clicking on an element ( from the preview page or tree view panels ) a custom menu appears with the main set of actions needed: copy, edit, remove, duplicate, hide, save, cut, discard, and copy element styles. Searchable options We implemented a search system so that you can easily find any option needed. No more looking around the options panel to search the exact option. This greatly improves the learning curve for new users. Flexbox control Control the alignment of your content ( the child or the parent elements ) to be vertical, horizontal, or center. All the flex-box rules are implemented in the display section of Panel Element Options. Pseudo-selectors “Hover” state of an element combined with the independent composition of elements brings a powerful design that otherwise would have been achieved only with custom code. Element’s motion control From the advanced tab in the edit element panel, you can add movement to the elements. There are ready to use animations such as fade, slide, zoom, etc. An animated element will start it’s animation only when it is visible on the page. Post revisions The builder uses the WordPress revisions feature. With each page save, a new page revision is also created allowing the user to go to a previous version of the page. Extendable options Built with PHP and Vue JS, the builder can be easily extended by adding new elements, adding new option types and custom conditions for the theme builder. Renaming elements Locating the correct element to interact with can be difficult when developing a complex web page. So you can rename your elements to get easily identified. On top of this, each element can be identified by its unique icon. RTL support Zion Page Builder supports RTL which is vital for languages that are read from right-to-left (rather than left-to-right). WORDPRESS PAGE BUILDER PREMIUM FEATURES Zion Builder Pro – Innovative plugin that comes to complete Zion Builder with many awesome features and elements which are meant to help users build their websites in no-time. Access to complete style options One of the things users love about Zion Builder Pro is the ability to fine tune almost every CSS property directly from the options panel. Combine this with the ability to change the styling for responsive devices and pseudo selectors so you have complete control over the page design. Dynamic content for various fields Replace static content from elements that are managed in WordPress with dynamic ones. Ability to upload custom fonts Zion Builder Pro makes it really easy to add custom fonts to your website. After uploading your font files to Zion Builder, your newly added fonts will be available in the editor at typography settings. Ability to use Adobe fonts Integration with Adobe Fonts was thought even from the beginning because this is a feature designers need. Ability to upload custom icons Importing custom icon packs created with Zion Builder Pro has never been easier. Any new icon pack added will be available in Zion Builder icon library. Role Manager Managing user’s permissions is done from Zion Builder’s dashboard. You can have full control of what users can edit. Custom CSS With custom CSS you can fine-tune the styling. Add custom CSS to elements and/or pages. Custom JavaScript With PRO, the page functionality may be extended by adding a JavaScript code which is only rendered on the current page Complex Accordions and Tabs elements With PRO the Accordions and Tabs elements accept nested elements as content. This is a powerful feature that lets you create unique designs. Access to PRO templates and elements With PRO you have access to premium design templates that you can import with just one click. Access to global colors Global Colors and Gradients have the superpower to edit a color or a gradient in one place and have those changes take effect everywhere that color is used. Access to global gradients Try out the Global Gradients yourself and you’ll see how you can spice up the design of your website while saving time. Access to PRO shape dividers Add extra spice to the design and users will love them. Take total visual control of your layouts and escape from theme limitations with Zion Builder Pro BE A CONTRIBUTOR If you want to help, go to our Zion Builder GitHub Repository. From there you can help us by opening new feature requests tickets as well as reporting bugs. Even more, if you’re a developer and want to improve or add a new feature to the builder, you can create a pull request. DOCUMENTATION AND SUPPORT For documentation and tutorials visit Zion Builder’s Help Center. For more information about features check out our website at Zion Builder website builder. Need more help? We are here to help you anytime – Just join the Zion Builder Community. Connect with us Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Twitter Subscribe to our YouTube channel Undocumented use of a 3rd Party / external service To improve the user experience, Zion Builder may use the following 3rd party services if the required feature is enabled: Google Fonts – are loaded to add additional fonts to your website. Google’s TOS and Privacy Policy Local Google fonts through https://gwfh.mranftl.com/ . This service is used to download and serve Google fonts locally. It does not store any user information. Some features require loading assets from zionbuilder.io. These assets are not used for tracking unless explicitly mentioned. Learn more in our TOS and Privacy Policy.