In this video I want to do a full review of Thrive Architect I want to talk about the
pros and the cons of using it definitely things that you're going to want to know before you
start using it hi my name is Adam from WPCrafter.com were I release it for the content around WordPress
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have a new video up so this is good to be about Thrive Architect it's from the makers
of thriving themes and they have a whole entire suite of plug-ins working to take a look at
it right now it's the second version of Thrive Content Builder so if you want to know a little
bit of the background there was Thrive Content Builder and then Thrive Architect came out
to replace it now if you're interested in comparisons of various page builders I recently
released a epic video comparing 11 different page builders for WordPress I recommend you
come and take a look at this video I do talk about Thrive Architect and compared to some
of the other big players Elementor Beaver Builder Divi and 11 essentially 11 different
page builders thrives a website and I'm specifically on the page for Thrive Architect I just want
to take a look at this before I jumped into Thrive Architect to share with you some of
the pros and cons with it now one of things I really love about it is their pricing structure
I will say I don't want to start comparison comparing it but it is probably the most affordable
and reasonably priced page builder for WordPress when you come to the website and scroll all
the way down to the bottom now everything that I talked to to be linked in the video
description box down below all right here it is so you get a single site license for
$67 now here is the difference when you are purchasing something from Thrive this is a
lifetime license and what that means is there going to continue to give you updates for
the life of the product now what typically happens with WordPress it's a one year updates
and support with Thrive you get one year of support but you get lifetime updates I think
that's way way better for customers because you don't have to worry about a security issue
or some kind of a performance patch or something like that in your your stuck constantly having
to pay a fee every year thrive doesn't do that to you I really like that and if you
want more than that one your support it's just a small $40 to extend that year of support
now I am putting together a training course on Thrive Architect and if you didn't already
have Thrive Architect and you wanted to purchase it up put information down below and given
that out is kind of a tie along to help you if you're purchasing Thrive Architect and
you click on the link I'm throwing in that course just to help you get faster results
with Thrive Architect and so I have those resources available for you so I do have a
thrive architect installed right here want to say one quick thing that is a huge pro
when it comes to purchasing any of the Thrive products is your really buying into an ecosystem
meaning they have lots of different products that seamlessly integrate and work together
now there's other companies that have suites of plug-ins or themes but they just don't
integrate another one is a great example is my theme shop WP M you dev these are places
you can get a membership and you can get access to all these plug-ins but they're all kinda
standalone and they don't seamlessly integrate together what's really nice about the thrive
is all of their products seamlessly integrate so I use Thrive Leads on my websites I use
Thrive ultimatum on my websites there's all these various products that they make that
perfectly integrate together and they do kind of have a marketing kind of focus on them
I like to give the example of Apple computers I have an Apple watch have an iPhone I have
an iPad I have a Mac I have an Apple TV and they ought to seamlessly communicate together
I can use one to control the other and they just kind of all work that's what you get
when you are using Thrive it's that seamless integration between these products that really
make it a comprehensive suite of tools for your WordPress based website okay enough that
you check so to keep structured in this video I do have a list here I wrote out what I thought
the pros were I wrote out what I think the cons work I go ahead and hit the pros first
and then I will hit some of the negatives you're gonna want to definitely stick around
for the entire video so Thrive Architect is a plug-in you can just go ahead and plug it
in and go to your website plug-ins add new install Thrive Architect now what it technically
is is a page builder for WordPress and it will work perfectly with any WordPress theme
on this demo site right here when I go to appearance I'm using the Astra Theme and it
just so happens to be the theme use on all of my websites I do have a review video on
that it's definitely something to look out for so when you install the Thrive architecture
to get a couple new menu items are to get this thriving light boxes and what this does
actually don't like the name of it but essentially it's can allow you to create pop ups that
you can use for on your Thrive Architect design pages so what's what's weight of thinking
of that is you don't have to go and buy an additional plug-in that you will want for
opt-in's pop-ups and things like that you can use ripe light boxes for that so you get
this new link down here this is where all the action really happens this thriving dashboard
and when you click on it this is where your to manage all of your Thrive products I only
have Thrive Architect installed on this website but yet others write products they would be
listed right here in this rating it manages some things the main one is this API connections
and this is actually one of the huge benefits of using Thrive Architect is and integrates
with a lot of different services so you can come right here input those connections into
the services now if I was to do a quick comparison with any other page builder for WordPress
none of them have anywhere is near the connections that thrive it does so whatever service or
any use for emails or webinars most likely you're going to have that connection available
to you in Thrive so when I go to manage connections I click on this it's super easy all I have
to do is click on add new connection now what's important to note is that you can actually
use this with more than one service at the same time so when I go to the drop down here
there's this long list of email marketing one of them that I particularly use myself
is Mautic it's very rare for a pay no page builders actually have meiotic integration
but you do get that with Thrive themes and I can can then continue scrolling down here
we have webinar platforms right here it just will also integrate with the local WordPress
user account system we have recaptured here in there's also some social networking integrations
Facebook Google and twitter it's really awesome I really think that they are ahead of the
curve in making this available in managing all of that is probably because they also
make a product called Thrive Leads so they they obviously have to have these integrations
for that and they can easily use the same code for Thrive Architect I love that now
when you do install and activate you got a pop in your license code I have an agency
membership with them let's take a quick look at the general settings here and this is where
you just get a put something specific like Facebook app ID and stuff like that in disk
I don't actually like to use discuss a personal and suck anyways now the way you use Thrive
Architect as you go to say create a new page and when you're in that page you're going
to have this option right here that says edit with Thrive Architect actually I should just
show you me on a new page so you can see how it is so I'll just go ahead and show you right
here that when you create a new page you have this option right here doubt you can't use
the WordPress editor and Thrive Architect on a page so if you do click on this button
here this is Ed with Thrive Architect now everything you're going to do is good to be
done in Thrive Architect okay so now let me go back to my list of pages and the first
thing I want to talk about that's a probe with Thrive Architect and is something very
unique to them is it comes with this suite of landing page templates there for you so
let me demonstrate it right here I actually already added this one landing page, go ahead
and click on edit with Thrive Architect it's gonna pull up the landing page right now and
here it is so I've already applied a landing page to this and it's beautiful I really wanted
to show this one to give you an idea of the quality of the landing pages that come with
Thrive Architect you can see this is using all kinds of modern elements we have this
shaped tool right here when I scroll down we have this drop shadow on these elements
right there very nice right here I don't think it's using a gradient although we do get gradients
let's see when I scroll down here this is actually really neat they added this really
neat affected going underneath images like this so you can see a frame just kind of underneath
it off to the side these are all advanced things that you're now able to do with Thrive
Architect and as we scroll down it's just a lot more of the same probably a slight gradient
in the background there now in order to look and choose a particular landing page when
you first go into Thrive Architect he would be hit click right here on the wheel on the
top left it's can it take you to our options here but working to click on a template set
up and it's right here landing page and it's right here change in landing page template
so when you click on it it's gonna pull up this overlay and it's going to show you all
of the various landing page options now they do have them organized into sets this one
was in this particular set here here's an entire said I'll just go ahead and expand
and it's essentially an entire funnel so funnels are something that a red hot right now probably
because of a service called click funnels you can use Thrive Architect to build the
beautiful funnels that work perfectly but the benefit is you don't necessarily even
have to create these templates because they are all already made it for you all you would
do is click on any of these templates that you wanted so let me actually go ahead and
do that right now I go ahead and click on this webinar replay because I just want to
show you something someone click on that click on choose template now there are a suite of
elements that are available in Thrive Architect and they kind of have some marketing spin
to it and this is a perfect example and that's why chose this it has a countdown timer right
here and this is something that you don't typically get in all these various page builders
and if you do get a countdown timer it might not be what's known as an evergreen countdown
timer which is something that will make it so when someone visits the page for that person
only is when the countdown timer starts you don't really have page builders that have
features like that so one of the big pros of Thrive architect is the various professionally
designed landing pages Nextel actually demonstrate on this landing pages you have what's called
an in line editor I know I can be a little bit of a techie term and in-line editor means
you can click on any bit of text like this and start editing it now there is only one
other page builder that has that and that is Divi I'm not the biggest fan of Divi but
it is the only other page builder that has in-line editing today I do know some of the
other ones they want to add it now why is in-line editing important if you want to use
a page builder like Thrive Architect for blog posts typically your blog posts are going
to be this long form text content it would be a nightmare a tedious nightmare to build
a beautiful blog post using the page builder without in line editing all the other page
builders you click on the bit of text and it either pops up here on the left for you
to edit or they'll be a pop up and you can edit it right there but it's not truly what
you see is what you get so with the in-line editing you can see right here in this headline
right here it's filed a little differently right you have this headline is section right
here where two different colors you can do that with in-line editing so if I wanted to
say highlight this word Discover and I can click on underline I can see it as I'm doing
it and you're just not getting that with other solutions I love the online editor and you
really if you want to use of a blog post that's when you really see it is actually very very
crucial and it just makes things a lot more convenient and correct so that is in line
editing the next thing I want to demonstrate is something called breadcrumbs so when I
click here you can see right here these are called the breadcrumbs now I have a better
demonstration of this breadcrumbs on this page I put together that I'm been a show some
of the pros with so obviously this right here is not a professionally designed page I put
it to demonstrate this thing called breadcrumbs so what you have right here this blue box
is a background section you can see it there on the top left and then right here you have
two columns so you have the section called columns and then you have the individual column
and then right here you have a content box so let me actually click on something in this
content box to fully demonstrate this breadcrumbs concept I'm clicking on the little airplane
right here in there is the breadcrumbs these are all the different things you get to from
top to bottom so there's the background section the columns the column content box and icon
the reason this is important is because each of these parts of your page have their own
settings so if I wanted to get to the say the content box the settings I can click right
there in the breadcrumbs the column that's just this column not that call not both columns
I can click right there but if I want to edit the setting for both columns globally I click
it right there now what you're doing with these is is creating some kind of a nested
settings so what that means is say I want to change the color of this of these bits
of text and I want to do it not just in the one little container want to do it for all
of it I just want to change the color of this text what you want to do is well today make
it easy I can go to the background section and as you see I got settings here for the
background section so I can click on topography and then here is the color it set the white
but I can change it to whatever I want and it applies to everything within that container
so you have this container system so that is why I think this breadcrumbs feature is
very very powerful she can easily jump into exactly what you want to start editing the
settings of but with one click and you can visually see all of these different containers
this is something you don't get this visual representation of exactly where you are exactly
what you're editing and they built the ability to easily jump to exactly what you want to
edit this is something you're only getting in Thrive Architect with this beautifully
conceived breadcrumbs feature the next Pro and I've used every single page builder is
that Thrive Architect has probably one of the best mobile editing experiences that I've
seen the only one that comes close is Elementor Beaver Builder is not the best mobile editing
experience so what you would do for mobile editing theirs is option right here which
is responsive and then you can click on tablet you can choose mobile and you can see exactly
how it's going to look on those various devices and you can make device specific changes so
typically what this is going to be is headline size the size of your headlines you can see
it's one size right here when I click on it let me go to text option you can see right
here the font size right here is 40 but then when I go to desktop it changes 286 you can
have these as vice specific sizes for fonts and also spacing so how much space is above
margin padding left and right and all of that these are typically things that you run into
problems when you actually look at your website in a mobile device and it's very easy to click
right here see what it looks like on a mobile device and immediately start making those
particular changes you can see this landing page template is already made two areas had
these adjustments made so it's gonna look really good on a mobile device and another
thing that I really like that's unique is you can you can do this with other page builders
you can make certain elements only viewable on certain devices so on anything that you
click so let me click on this video right here you got these responsive options and
you can choose to make this only visible on certain devices know what I like about it
though say I only want this on the mobile so I'm gonna disable it on urban to make it
hidden on the desktop now it makes it disappear on the desktop I really like that other different
page builders you still see it on all of the different views it's actually kind of weird
now if you want to see all hidden elements you go like this and you'll be able to see
it that's just something that I notice in its little touches that that that I really
like another thing that I really like is the layouts in positioning options for just about
every element and also this absolute setting so I want to show you that right now so as
trying to set it up right here so when you click on any of the elements, go ahead and
click on this right here and we have our options here most of them are good have this layout
and position and this is really nice it gives you a nice visual representation for something
called margin and padding margin is the space outside of an element padding is the space
inside an element so for this background section.
Actually I'll do it all go ahead and click on that breadcrumb right and then I go to
layouts and positioning right here so this insight is your padding and outside is your
margin so if I was to click right here and increase it that's the space outside of the
section so essentially if I put it above it's good to push it down so let me get rid of
that now this right here is the spacing inside the element so this is what happens when I
increase that it's going to push everything inside of it down and that's what your margin
and padding is but I just really love how visual this is so it's very easy to comprehend
this is your outside space and this is your inside space know what's really neat is you
have some advance options here that I'm in a demonstrate so I go ahead and click right
here on this little element and now I'm in the layout and position of for the icon right
here we have the advance on the go ahead and expanded right here so first of all we have
this Z index option so little technical that's basically the stacking order of things if
you have two things on top of each other the item with the higher the index number will
always appear on top a little advance there but you have this positioning option right
here auto relative or absolute watch what I what happens when I click on absolute it
pushes it off to the side and it's just kind of a floating there now when you click on
edit position now you can change the position of it so say I wanted it on the top right
corner I can go right here to the top right corner and there it is now that doesn't necessarily
look good at all but then you have this positioning option right here so for the top or the right
so I can go like this and I can move it up higher so say I wanted this airplane right
in the middle I can do something just like that he can easily do this in any other page
builder there's a lot of great use case and errors it probably look better if I maybe
had this airplane in a circle or something like that it might look better actually let
me just do that as a background style let's see if I put something in there like that
and let's see borders and corners I suppose I could go ahead and do this and kind of put
it in a circle so that it kinda looks a little better like that you see where I'm going with
this this is something that's very hard to do another page builders but you get this
really nice easy to use layout and positioning options and then you have advanced options
if you want to add a little bit more design into your website like I just demonstrated
with this absolute option next feature that I really think is nice is the reverse stacking
order now what that means is I have this column right here okay this row when I have these
two columns will typically you see this on a lot of webpages were you'll have an image
and then you'll have some information and then you'll duplicate that because now you
want the image on this side underneath it in the information on the other side but then
you have to kinda duplicated in then drag this there then drag that there it's a little
bit of a pain now you don't have to deal with that with Thrive Architect so I've got this
section here I've got one column here in one column here I will click on a column like
this and then I will go here to columns you see right here with the breadcrumbs coming
in handy and then off to the right here I can duplicate it so now I've got my column
one column two and I have it here okay but say I want to reverse this summit to go click
right here then I'm in a go back to the columns so they're both selected right there and then
here it is in reverse order you see that so now this is column two in this is column one
this is a speed tool so when you're laying out a website if you have these alternating
columns maybe three or four them it's a little clicks like this that make it a lot faster
and a lot easier to build out your website I like that they put the forethought into
these little features like this this reverse order and this is also good for mobile devices
because a lot of times when you have these alternating sections on a mobile device they
don't look good you're going to need to use this reverse order feature for mobile devices
this is one thing that I help you think is cool and you can you can do that to any of
these so I can do it here: 1:2 I can click right here go to columns in the reverse order
and you can see everything just reversed like that I love little tricks like this that speed
up my workflow so let's take a quick look at all of these various modules that you're
getting with Thrive Architect so you're good to get your paragraph text you're heading
in your basic stuff right image button the button builders really nice columns background
sections content boxes content templates this means if you wanted to save an individual
piece of content that you've created for reusing over and over that would be saved and made
into a content template they have these items here that they call building blocks some of
these are useful some of these I never will ever see myself using so click the tweets
actually pretty cool content reveal is super awesome you can have some time content that
reveals at a certain point time this is good for a page that has a video and maybe had
five minutes and you want something revealed and but it doesn't sync up with the video
player but if you had a video on autoplay then you can kinda get it going pretty good
countdown but the Evergreen countdown is really awesome credit cards actually do think the
credit card options are pretty nice I think you have a demonstrated right here the credit
cards it's something simple like that that makes it a little more easy to put things
together on your website you have this custom menu actually I just make sure how this works
so I drag and drop it there and then you can choose one of your WordPress menus although
it doesn't look like it's working for me maybe actually don't have a WordPress menu set up
on this demo site so that's actually really good to have the menu option right there this
is sadly something a lot of page builders don't even have discussed comments I'll never
use that Facebook comments etc. good for landing pages and you want that social proof their
divider fill counter that's good Google map that's great because you can Ashley build
full websites with Thrive Architect I can't I use that a lot and you see him get kinda
down on the list here you have this little pin option right here sign click on that and
it moves it up to the very top of show you right here it's now right here is a pinned
item I actually like that because you can find you have a page builder there's 50 different
elements in there you only use like six or seven of them so this way you can pin them
and you can reorder them actually yes I don't know if you can reorder them we should test
that right so you let me just go ahead and pin that she have a lead generation and this
is where you would create your own pop-up so you can tie it to a button or clicking
on an image or something like that post grade this their implementation of it is just okay
it's good to show grid of the blog posts you might have progress bar social share that's
actually very nice start reading your doing reviews style list a table I think one of
their key elements is that they have that no one has is has is eight people has is that
doesn't sound right table contents is another feature they have that is amazing let me go
explain those but will case we got tabs testimonial toggles video and WordPress content so let's
see if I can reorder these now doesn't look like it that would've been cool I guess it's
the order in which you pin it so the table feature is amazing so you can create a beautiful
table on your page that is easy to manage and change things right now with WordPress
if you want to create a table it's a pain in the but you have to use this plan called
table press and there's other ones are all just a major pain to use but this is the only
like visual tool for creating a data table on your website table contents is awesome
I have use that on many websites that's where it pulls up the different headings that you
have on your page and it automatically creates a table of contents were some can click and
it will basically pull that the title into this type table context box and click on it
it takes them straight down to that piece of content it's a beautiful beautiful feature
they're the only ones that have something like that and so there's a very powerful suite
of elements that are available for you to use and that's one of the huge benefits of
Thrive Architect now the next benefit on talk about iconic touch on it earlier is this whole
ecosystem of plug-ins that can communicate with one another I know that will something
that's coming to thrive is a B split testing I know that they have I'm thinking they might
come out with the final builder but you have this entire suite of plug-ins that perfectly
works together so if you're doing any kind of marketing on your website it's definitely
a suite of tools that you can rely on to get things done for you another benefit that you
don't see you could know if they have any information publicly here they have something
called the thrive University let's see if there's a link up there there isn't essentially
when you buy into a thrive product they have a backend training portal that has tons and
tons and tons of training and it's all there for you some written the training some of
its video most of his video training that shows you that only how to use their products
but how to market your website more effectively and let's see if there's some information
here on its Thrive University that I don't see it actually\'85 Sorry about that that
I'm not so prepared to showcase rough University but basically actually hear him to go ahead
and login okay am now logged into the website and you see right here it says Thrive University
when you click on it it's can it take you to their learning management system this actually
part another plug in that they have that you can use it personally works with Thrive Architect
and Thrive Leads is called Thrive apprentice I do have a review video on it but you can
see these are all courses right here that you can jump in intake and its or its part
of what you're purchasing with Thrive so you can see right here it's his video sets a video
lesson and there some here that say text that the text base course and look look at the
names of these it's not about just Thrive Architect or one of their products 20 tips
to build a mailing list fast 25 design resources right here build a conversion focus website
from scratch you have these courses here that are really really valuable soak in ways that
lists out my pros let's go into the cons because when you're evaluating a product and whether
you can use it or not you typically want to know what's wrong with that in you really
don't know what's wrong with it until you actually habit and try to start using it or
maybe have something to compare it to now Thrive architect fantastic but it's not perfect
and honestly I don't really expect to be perfect because it was only released about a month
ago so I think over time it's been a mature and this can add some of these features and
I did run some of these by the people at Thrive to see where their stances are is this on
the radar to build and I was happy to find out that they're aware of all of these things
and they want to build these features into Thrive Architect so the first thing that they
don't have global settings and global save the elements so what is that so say I want
to let's see right here let me scroll down lets he find something here that's a good
example is nothing good example right here but let me just to tell you basically what
this is so all the other page builders have this wedding saved section is a say right
here I wanted to save this headline exactly as it is now typically you would have this
be some kind of a call to action where there's a bit of text in a button and say you saved
that in you wanted to use it on every single page on your website well with Thrive Architect
you could save it and then on each page you create you can just drag and drop it in place
it in that location on every single page now the problem comes in is when you want to actually
maybe change that bit of text or change some of the text on the button or change a color
if it's not a global save the section what happens is now you have to go to every single
page and make that adjustment it becomes very tedious to manage a large website when you
have to do that to sites on 10 pages and I gotta go into the editor on each of those
10 pages to change that been a texture to change that color because there's no sinking
involved it's not a global element even though it's the same exact thing on every single
page on your website so what they do need to add is a global feature where they can
all be linked together you can make an edit to it on one page and it goes across to all
the other places that you're using that save section on this is something that they absolutely
need to add because right now it's fabulous for building out webpages landing pages sales
pages and stuff like that great blog posts if you have a larger website you definitely
need something like that a globally saved element were there all synced across the next
problem that I see has them do with landing pages so just a moment ago I was saying one
of the best features was these landing pages and they are fantastic the biggest problem
with the landing page though is that if you want to use it it completely overrides your
themes header and footer so you can't take advantage of one of these predesigned landing
pages but haven't sandwiched in on your website underneath your header and above your footer
you can do it so here I'll demonstrate that for you so say I want to create a new page
of the click add new and I'll just name it new landing page a go ahead and click on publish
now on my particular theme I need to tell it that I am going to use a page builder on
this page so when I scroll down right here I need to choose for the content layer on
are the content layout to choose full with stretched and I'm going to disable the title
like that and that should be it for me so if I go ahead and update that and now if I
go to view it we should see nothing really there whoops I think there's one more thing
I need to change regarding the sidebar okay for the site barman to do no sidebars that's
it right there I want to go ahead and click on update let me go to my page let me do a
quick refresh and were to see the blank page all I have is my header in my footer click
on edit with Thrive Architect so now I can start building my page out and by dragging
and dropping content right there so usually want to start with the background section
like that and you start building out your page but I can't use a landing page and have
it sandwiched in here the minute I want to use one of those templates this is what happens
I'll go like this and let me click on the little wheel there a minute click right here
on template set up in the right here I'm in a click on change landing page template and
when I do that I get my landing page templates let me go ahead and expand the set and choose
this one right here yeah just do that one click on choose template now see what happens
is then it just wipes out my header and footer for my theme I wanted use the template but
I want to be able to keep my header in my footer but it just doesn't give you the option
to do this this might be more of an oversight this is how Thrive Content Builder worked
as well it might be bit more of an oversight there should be an option they should have
it so I can go back in here and have an option to still use my themes and header and footer
so if I go to look I look at I don't see any options for it right here I got it on the
content I'm to start creating on Thrive Architect and it's good to be these things that I'm
discovering right now that you might not know but really I think best practices there there
needs to be some content that I create for best practices on building out a particular
page or design for for using Thrive Architect so I'm also building all that content into
my Thrive Architect course that's currently being developed right now and will be available
soon so I really gotta say Thrive Architect is a really solid product and I really like
the direction that it's going they have a lot of experience at Thrive they been there
or not but behind the years they've been doing this for years and I think that that it really
has an exciting future I think really though when they add this AB split testing now maybe
split testing is something that people think they need but they never end up using but
I do think they need to use it once they add a B split testing it's going to really set
this on a new level above a lot of the other page builders because none of them really
our building that Divi does have a split testing thing I don't think a lot of people use it
to be interesting to see how Thrive implemented on their architect page builder so anyways
if you own Thrive Architect I do want to hear what you think about it down below like I
said in the beginning of the video everything that I've talked about in this video which
is essentially the video on my website and Thrive Architect itself is linked down below
once again if you want access to the Thrive Architect courses called Thrive Architect
essentials when you click on the link down below will give you information on that is
what so hey thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video
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