Origin Layouts Manager vs Zen Addons for SiteOrigin Page Builder

Origin Layouts Manager extends SiteOrigin Page Builder with reusable templates and administrator-controlled row and column options. Save complete SiteOrigin Page Builder layouts or individual rows, then reuse them without rebuilding the same content and settings. Layout Controls also lets administrators simplify the SiteOrigin editing experience, manage existing fields, and create project-specific row and column fields without hard-coding them in a theme. Reusable SiteOrigin layouts and rows Save full SiteOrigin Page Builder layouts as reusable templates. Save an individual SiteOrigin row directly from the row menu. Update an existing template without creating a duplicate. Manage saved layouts under a dedicated Origin Layout Manager admin menu. Add featured images and descriptions to make templates easier to identify. Insert saved layouts through SiteOrigin’s familiar Prebuilt Layouts interface. Custom SiteOrigin row and column fields Layout Controls gives administrators a visual interface for managing the fields shown in SiteOrigin Row Styles and Column Styles. Reorder native SiteOrigin fields within their existing sections. Turn native or custom fields on and off without deleting values already stored in page layouts. Add custom fields to rows or columns without writing PHP. Drag custom fields between compatible SiteOrigin sections. Clone custom fields, including select options and output settings. Lock saved field keys to avoid accidentally disconnecting existing page data. Import or export the row and column field configuration between sites. Supported custom field types include text, URL, number, textarea, code, checkbox, toggle, select, multi-select, color, measurement, slider, image, and image size fields. Custom field values can be applied as CSS classes, IDs, data attributes, CSS properties, or CSS custom properties. Output choices are limited and sanitized to make administrator-created controls safer and more predictable. Theme colors and measurement units Create a SiteOrigin color palette containing up to 16 project or brand colors. Palette colors can be named, reordered, and selected from SiteOrigin color fields. Color names and hex values appear when hovering over configured palette swatches, helping editors distinguish similar colors. Choose which measurement units appear in SiteOrigin spacing and sizing fields. Hide units that clients do not need, reorder the remaining units, or enable modern units such as rem, viewport units, and dynamic viewport units. Optional modern full-width rows SiteOrigin traditionally uses JavaScript to stretch full-width rows beyond the theme content container. Origin Layouts Manager includes an optional modern CSS method for full-width and contained rows. Configure the contained content width, minimum side gutter, and overflow protection from Layout Controls. Existing SiteOrigin row padding is preserved, including responsive tablet and mobile values. The original SiteOrigin JavaScript method remains available and is the default until an administrator chooses Modern CSS. Origin Layouts Manager works alongside SiteOrigin Page Builder and does not alter the SiteOrigin plugin files. Credits Developed by Kodeala.

Zen Addons for SiteOrigin Page Builder is a curated set of 37 widget extensions built on the official SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle framework. SiteOrigin Page Builder is fast and dependable, but its stock widgets can look dated. Zen Addons fills that gap with modern, sleek widgets that look polished out of the box and stay lightweight. It adds the practical, everyday building blocks most sites actually need, from tabs, accordions, and pricing tables to FAQ sections with Schema.org markup, team grids, testimonials, and video lightboxes, so you can build richer pages inside SiteOrigin without reaching for a heavier page builder. Every widget is designed to be clean, accessible, and easy to style. Widgets render with semantic HTML, follow ARIA best practices, and stay out of your way: nothing loads on the front end unless a widget that needs it is actually placed on the page. Built for the SiteOrigin workflow Zen Addons plugs directly into Page Builder by SiteOrigin and the SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle. All Zen Addons widgets are grouped under their own “ZASO Widgets” tab in the widget picker, so they are easy to find and never get lost among the core widgets. You can enable only the widgets you use and leave the rest off. Widgets included Layout and content Spacer: add adjustable vertical spacing between rows and widgets. Alert Box: show a styled info, success, warning, or error message, with thirty ready-made designs (six free). Widgetized: place an existing widget sidebar inside your page content. Interactive Simple Accordion / Toggle: stack content into collapsible, toggleable panels. Basic Tabs: organize content into a set of clickable, accessible tabs. Media Video: embed a responsive video from YouTube, Vimeo, or other providers. YouTube Video Lightbox: open a YouTube video in a clickable pop-up lightbox. Vimeo Video Lightbox: open a Vimeo video in a clickable pop-up lightbox. Image Gallery: display a responsive image grid with an optional lightbox that opens full-size images in a pop-up overlay. Business and marketing Info Box: feature an image, title, text, and call-to-action button together. Hover Card: show an image card with a title and button that animate on hover, with thirty ready-made designs (six free). Flip Card: show a card that flips on hover or keyboard focus to reveal back-side content and a call-to-action. Icon: display a single icon from an icon font or your own upload. Image Icon Group: display a row or grid of linked image icons. FAQ: display a collapsible list of questions and answers with optional Schema.org FAQPage markup for rich results in Google Search. Pricing Table: showcase your plans side-by-side with a features list, a highlighted featured tier, and a call-to-action button per plan, with thirty ready-made designs (six free). Conversion and engagement Call to Action: combine a heading, text, and button in a banner over a color, gradient, or image background, with thirty ready-made designs (six free). Counter: count up to a number with a stat that animates when it scrolls into view, with thirty ready-made designs (six free). Countdown: count down to a date and time for launches, sales, and events. Before / After: compare two images with a draggable slider, with mouse, touch, and keyboard support. Social Share Bar: add share buttons for Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, WhatsApp, Telegram, email, and a copy-link button, with no third-party scripts. Notification Banner: announce something with a message bar shown inline or pinned to the top or bottom of the screen, with an optional button and a dismissal the visitor’s browser remembers. People and social proof Team Member: display a grid of team members with photos, roles, bios, and social links. Testimonial Slider: show a rotating set of testimonials with auto-play, swipe, and keyboard support, with thirty ready-made designs (six free). Logo Showcase: display a responsive grid of client or partner logos with an optional greyscale-to-colour hover effect. Content blocks Services Grid: present services or features in a grid, each with an icon, title, description, and optional link, with thirty ready-made designs (six free). Progress Bars: show labeled progress or skill bars that fill as they scroll into view. Post Grid: display a responsive grid of posts with featured images, meta, excerpts, and read-more links. Post Carousel: display posts in a swipeable carousel with autoplay, arrows, and dots. Community (bbPress) bbPress Forum Index: show the full bbPress forum index in your layout. bbPress Topic Index: list recent bbPress topics with optional search and pagination. bbPress Login: embed the bbPress member login form. bbPress Registration: embed the bbPress account registration form. bbPress Lost Password: embed the bbPress lost password recovery form. Integrations Contact Form 7: drop any Contact Form 7 form into a SiteOrigin layout. Where to find your widgets Zen Addons widgets are SiteOrigin widgets, so they appear in two places: Inside Page Builder, click Add Widget and open the ZASO Widgets tab. Under Plugins > SiteOrigin Widgets, where you can turn individual widgets on or off. You can also manage every Zen Addons widget from one place under the Zen Addons menu in your WordPress admin sidebar. The widgets are not listed under Appearance > Widgets, because they are built specifically for the SiteOrigin builder. Standards Semantic, neatly structured HTML. Accessible markup following ARIA best practices. SEO-friendly output. Front-end assets load only on pages where a Zen Addons widget is used. Requirements WordPress 5.5 or later and PHP 7.4 or later. Page Builder by SiteOrigin and the SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle (free on WordPress.org). The Widgets Bundle is required because Zen Addons extends its widget framework. Contact Form 7 is only needed if you use the Contact Form 7 widget. bbPress is only needed if you use the bbPress widgets. Language support Every user-facing string is translation ready. Translations are served through WordPress.org, so any language the community translates becomes available automatically. Help translate Zen Addons at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/zen-addons-for-siteorigin-page-builder/ Zen Addons Pro Zen Addons Pro is available now. It adds the Popup and Portfolio widgets (the Portfolio Grid ships with thirty ready-made card designs of its own), a site-wide Display Layer (visibility conditions by login, role, and date, device targeting, scroll animations, and a custom CSS class on every widget), Pricing Table Pro, and twenty-four extra designs each for the Alert Box, Counter, Call to Action, Pricing Table, Testimonial Slider, Hover Card, and Services Grid, all chosen visually from the Browse designs gallery. Learn more and compare plans at https://www.dopethemes.com/downloads/zen-addons-siteorigin/ . External services This plugin connects to the DopeThemes website to show a short list of recent DopeThemes posts inside the WordPress dashboard news area, so you can see helpful tutorials and product news. The request is made only on the main WordPress Dashboard screen. When that screen loads, the plugin fetches the latest posts from https://www.dopethemes.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts and displays the three most recent titles and links. The response is cached for 12 hours, no personal data is sent with the request, and you can permanently dismiss the news from the dashboard. This service is provided by DopeThemes. Terms of service: https://www.dopethemes.com/terms/ . Privacy policy: https://www.dopethemes.com/privacy-policy/ . Privacy Policy Zen Addons does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data from your site or your visitors. The only external request it makes is the optional, dismissible DopeThemes news fetch described in the External services section above, which sends no personal data and is cached for 12 hours. Support For support, documentation, and feature requests, please visit https://www.dopethemes.com/. Please read the Frequently Asked Questions before opening a support request, and include your WordPress, SiteOrigin, and PHP versions along with a description of the issue. Credits Zen Addons bundles a self-hosted, curated subset of Material Symbols Rounded for use in widget icon pickers. Material Symbols is created by Google and distributed under the Apache License 2.0. The font is served locally from the plugin (no Google Fonts CDN), and a copy of the Apache License 2.0 is included in assets/fonts/LICENSE. Translations English (en_US) English – Australia (en_AU)