Pootle Pagebuilder – WordPress Page builder

Description

If I was to use a page builder on one of my sites, Pootle Page Builder would be in the running for my top choicePippin Williamson – WordPress guru

If you’ve ever been frustrated with WordPress then you’re going to love how Pootle Pagebuilder gives you complete control over your page layouts.

What is Pootle Pagebuilder?

Pootle Pagebuilder is a front-end, drag and drop page builder that is the most creative, fun and intuitive way to build stunning looking pages and posts with WordPress.

Anyone can now create a beautiful WordPress website in minutes and no technical knowledge is needed (we promise).

What can I do with Pootle Pagebuilder?

With Pootle Pagebuilder you can:

  • Build beautiful pages in minutes
  • Design your pages from the front-end with a powerful drag and drop live designer
  • Add full width rows, to create long sectional pages
  • Add flexible rows and columns to create the page you want
  • Customize the styles of content areas
  • Add background images, colours and videos to rows
  • Add parallax background images to rows
  • Add CSS customizations (for advanced users)

Basic operation

Pixel perfect drag and drop

Row animations

Gradients

Customizable Icons

Elegant Accordions

Is there anything else you can tell me about Pootle Pagebuilder?

We have made sure Pootle Pagebuilder:

  • Works on any theme.
  • Works with your favourite plugins e.g Ninja forms.
  • Is mobile friendly. The pages you create with Pootle Pagebuilder will work seamlessly on desktop and mobile.
  • Feels as much like WordPress as possible making it easy to use for site owners and non technical content editors.
  • Works via the front-end and back-end.
  • Lean and fast – the code is well written and fully optimized and tested for performance and speed.
  • The free version of Pootle Pagebuilder has amazing features such as parallax and video backgrounds.

We’re super-excited to now also offer a Pro version that adds the following additional, powerful functionality;

Pootle Pagebuilder Pro features

  • Blog Customizer – design beautiful blog pages by bringing posts into your pages
  • WooCommerce Customizer – create highly customized WooCommerce pages
  • Page Customizer – customize individual pages – e.g hide header for squeeze and landing pages
  • One pager Customizer – create one pager websites in minutes
  • Photo Customizer – create stunning galleries and slideshows
  • Premium support

If you would like to see the Pootle Pagebuilder Pro version in action click here to see some short video walkthroughs http://www.pootlepress.com/pootle-pagebuilder-pro/

Usage

Install and activate the plugin. In your WordPress dashboard simply add a new page to start using page builder.

Watch this video.

Screenshots

  • Edit page interface

  • Content block editor

  • Content block styling

  • Row display settings / Background image

  • Row display settings / Background video

  • Row display settings / Layout t

  • Ninja Forms module

  • Hero module

Installation

Installing “Pootle Pagebuilder” can be done either by searching for “Pootle Pagebuilder” via the “Plugins > Add New” screen in your WordPress dashboard, or by using the following steps:

  1. Download the plugin via WordPress.org.
  2. Upload the ZIP file through the “Plugins > Add New > Upload” screen in your WordPress dashboard.
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  4. Visit the settings screen and configure, as desired.

FAQ

Where can I get help & support

For help & support please head over to http://docs.pootlepress.com where there are loads of helpful articles and you can submit a support ticket.

How do I contribute?

We encourage everyone to contribute their ideas, thoughts and code snippets. This can be done by forking the repository over at GitHub.

Reviews

March 25, 2021
I am working with Pootlepress pagebuilder for a long time (after woo canvas stopped) and I am very happy with it, untill I read this in wordprss.org: This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. I can see Jamie is busy with all kinds of projects, but hopefully he will not forget about excisting users of pootle pagebuilder pro and 18 tags pro.
December 10, 2020
I wanted something a bit lighter than the big name page builders, as I didn't need all the extra bits they bundle in. Really pleased with Pootle, it just seems more intuitive than others that I have tried. Good service too, and no problems with the purchase. Thank you!
December 9, 2020
I like how this builder works. It's very easy to use and you can do advanced pages without dealing with so many options. The support is good too, they reply in a timely manner.
December 9, 2020
I am so happy I stumbled across this pagebuilder. There are many pagebuilders for WP these days, but I found it difficult to find an editor with just the right amount of features and functionality, without adding so many customization options that you cannot find the setting you need. This page builder hits the sweet-spot, and I recommend to try out this page builder to anyone who is looking for an updated editor experience.
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Contributors & Developers

“Pootle Pagebuilder – WordPress Page builder” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

5.7.0

  • 2020-08-17
  • Fix – Admin editor and live editor breaking on save WP 5.5
  • Fix – Page customizer compatibility WordPress 5.5
  • Fix – Pootle Button compatibility WordPress 5.5

5.6.0

  • 2020-05-04
  • Tweak – Font awesome picker FA5 icons

5.5.2

  • 2019-03-01
  • Minor – Update Freemius SDK to v2.3.0

5.5.1.2

  • 2019-03-01
  • Minor – Rename README.txt to readme.txt

5.5.1.1

  • 2019-02-27
  • Tweak – Update Freemius SDK

5.5.1

  • 2018-12-12
  • Fix – Classic editor compatibility
  • Fix – Yoast SEO compatibility

5.5.0

  • 2018-12-05
  • New – WordPress 5.0.0 compatibility
  • New – Option to add a row above an existing row
  • New – Allow content block color overlay on image
  • Fix – Overlay for Ken burns
  • Fix – Mobile parallax pictures super zoomed
  • Fix – z-index issue affect external plugins content like Gravity forms
  • Tweak – Edit icons changed to settings icon
  • Tweak – Intro tour improved
  • Tweak – Front end JS cleaned
  • Tweak – Post builder (PRO) pagination fix

5.4.0

  • 2018-05-19
  • New – WordPress 4.9.6 compatibility
  • New – Gutenberg compatibility
  • New – Blog customizer (PRO) posts improved
  • Tweak – UI tweaks to improve UX

5.3.0

  • 2018-03-23
  • New – Gutenberg compatibility
  • Tweak – Pages always responsive
  • Minor UI tweaks

5.2.0

  • 2018-02-23
  • New – Featured image row background
  • Fix – Freemius cURL error
  • Tweak – Unsplash new API tweaks
  • Tweak – Escape assets url in Pootle Button (broken on some sites)
  • Tweak – Use https for querying templates

5.1.0

  • 2017-11-15
  • New – WordPress 4.9 compatibility
  • New – New font size options
  • FIX – PAGE CUSTOMIZER NOT WORKING ON SOME SERVER CONFIGURATIONS
  • Fix – Hero module not full width by default
  • Fix – Live editor not saving sometimes
  • Fix – Console error when updating ('&nbsp' not recognised)
  • Fix – Closing page title dialog keeps loading forever
  • Fix – Color picker looks good on Windows chrome as well
  • Tweak – Page customizer link url encoded
  • Tweak – Alpha color picker fixed for WP v4.9
  • Tweak – Escaping assets url in pootle button

5.0.0

  • 2017-09-28
  • New – Layouts more flexible and robust (use newer tech)
  • New – Mobile behaviour for rows and columns
  • New – Full width content option for rows
  • New – Frontend styles optimization
  • New – Design templates for rows (Pootle Cloud)
  • New – Content block image fields support free images from Unsplash
  • Tweak – All CSS minified for faster loading
  • Tweak – Front end CSS now compiled from SASS
  • Tweak – Freemius SDK updated to v1.2.1.7.1
  • Fix – Page customizer not working on some servers
  • Dev – Live editor JS prevu.addRow() new parameters callback, blockData, rowStyle, cellWidths
  • Dev – Live editor JS notification function ppbNotify( 'Message' )
  • Dev – Modules support property only_new_row and only_existing_row, by default can be applied to both
  • Dev – Modules activeClass property renamed to active_class
  • Dev – Layouts now done with CSS3 FLEXBOX

4.1.1

  • 2017-05-26
  • Fix – Color picker messed up

4.1.0

  • 2017-05-26
  • Fix – Close live preview customizer sidebar not showing in some themes (box-sizing issue)
  • Fix – Ninja forms module not showing forms in drop down selector
  • Fix – WooCommerce addon products selection dropdown only shows 50 products
  • Tweak – Shortcodes now don’t get wrapped in <p> tags
  • Tweak – Live editor page preview AJAX handler now creates resettable queries
  • Tweak – Blog customizer made more robust by design

4.0.0

  • 2017-05-11
  • New – Content edit panel now shown as a sidebar and show preview live 🙂
  • New – Row styling panel now shown as sidebar and show live preview as well.
  • New – Content styling and content modules separated, now modules can only be dragged in content blocks.
  • New – Loader displayed when AJAX response is awaited.
  • New – Draggable handles redesigned to be more user friendly
  • New – Buttons and icons show editable tooltips
  • Fix – Title in blog customizer not showing ( z-index issue )
  • Fix – Photography addon and WooCommerce product gallery conflict
  • Tweak – Save/Publish and Live Edit made last items in admin bar.
  • Tweak – Live editor ajax callback cleared before calling.
  • Tweak – Live editor JS minified by task runner
  • Tweak – Content edit panel editor simplified
  • Tweak – Row styling icon always visible and first icon
  • Tweak – Row styling icon changed from paint brush to pencil
  • Tweak – Tour includes Drag and drop modules
  • Tweak – Hide unrendered dialogs html in live edit area

3.7.2

  • 2017-03-17
  • New – Horizontal and vertical center on mobile
  • New – Full height row
  • New – Advanced content setting tab in live editor
  • Fix – Page builder content dump in post content not working SEO not working
  • Fix – Customizer JS console error caused by page customizer
  • Fix – Videos and shortcodes not rendering in products built with page builder
  • Tweak – CoffeeScript for preprocessing live editor JS

3.7.1

  • 2017-01-13
  • Tweak – Live editor ajax loop no posts fallback
  • Tweak – Adds a console error if AJAX request response is not as expected instead of failing

3.7.0

  • 2017-01-06
  • New – Free modules available for pro
  • Fix – Page customizer license key missing
  • Tweak – Post Loop in live editor admin ajax action
  • Tweak – Welcome page revamped
  • Tweak – FS sdk updated
  • Dev – Filter pootlepb_dump_ppb_content to skip post content dump by ppb
  • Dev – Action pootlepb_live_editor_init
  • Dev – Action pootlepb_live_editor_after_init

3.6.0

  • 2016-12-06
  • Fix – Row animation hiding row on mobile devices
  • Fix – Content keeping on deactivation
  • Fix – Page customizer WPv4.7 compatibility
  • Fix – SFP page customizer conflict
  • Tweak – Freemius welcome message
  • Tweak – Images coming via https protocol

3.5.1

  • 2016-09-25
  • Fix – Error on sites using php 5.4 and lower

3.5.0

  • 2016-09-20
    • New – Row background effect – Fixed background parallax
    • New – Row background effect – Ken burns
    • New – Row accordion
    • New – Row animations
    • New – Row gradients
    • New – Row gradient over image
    • New – Font Awesome icons module
    • New – One Pager module
    • New – WooCommerce Carousel
    • Tweak – Removed rag adjust
    • Tweak – pootlepb_row_cell_attributes now include current rows settings as 4th parameters
    • Tweak – pootlepb_uses_pb( $post ) to check if post uses pootle page builder
    • Tweak – New font sizes 20px and 25px
    • Fix – Compatibility with latest Ninja forms plugin

3.1.0

  • 2016-09-08
    • New – Content block position dragging
    • New – Content block resizing
    • New – Google fonts in editor
    • New – Action hook pootlepb_save_post executed before saving ppb post data both from live editor and admin end
    • Tweak – Live editor formatting bar styling

3.0.1

  • 2016-08-26
    • Tweak – Compatibility with php 5.4

3.0.0

  • 2016-08-26
    • New – Modules slide in allows dragging and dropping modules
    • New – Module Hero Section
    • New – Module Image
    • New – Module Slider
    • New – Module Unsplash image
    • New – Module Button
    • New – Module Ninja Form
    • New – Module Metaslider – Slider
    • New – Pro Module Photo gallery
    • New – Pro Module Blog Posts
    • New – Pro Module WooCommerce Products
    • New – Row background now allows searching on unsplash
    • New – Setting to choose where to put modules slide in left or right
    • Fix – Match column heights now works in Firefox

2.5.1

  • 2016-07-22
    • Fix – Firefox, rows collapsed by default

2.5.0

  • 2016-07-22
    • New – Match column height for row.
    • New – iPad app compatibility
    • New – Live editor delete confirmation
    • New – Post settings – Categories
    • New – Post settings – Tags
    • New – Post settings – Featured image
    • New – New tinyMCE buttons – h1, h4, align left, align center and align right.
    • New – Pootle Pagebuilder tour
    • New – Templates come from external JSON file
    • Fix – Row overlay color moving to different row on drag
    • Fix – Yoast SEO no scores on WordPress editor pages

2.0.0

  • 2016-05-06
    • New – Add/Edit rows and row styling live from front end!
    • New – Edit content blocks, resize them and adjust styling and properties live from front end!
    • New – Create the entire page live from front end!
    • New – New filter pootlepb_live_page_template filters new live page template
    • New – New filter pootlepb_le_content_block_tabs filters live editing content block sections
    • New – New filter pootlepb_le_row_block_tabs filters live editing row styling sections
    • New – Some content even after plugin is removed
    • New – Includes pootle button plugin to add lovely button with WYSIWYG in editor
    • New – Add background images to content
    • New – Now uses freemius for easy support
    • Tweak – License activation message changed
    • Tweak – License activation message can now be dismissed
    • Tweak – Empty row height now uses min-height and can be used even on non empty rows
    • Tweak – Empty row height option renamed to Minimum Row Height
    • Tweak – Add New option removed from Page Builder in admin menu
    • Fix – Content not searchable by many users

1.1.1

  • 2016-02-19
    • Fix – Heading color setting in theme not working in PPB

1.1.0

  • 2016-02-18
    • New – Added rag adjust fixing text to enhance readability in fluid layouts
    • New – New filter pootlepb_rag_adjust_elements to add or remove elements to adjust text in
    • New – Action hook pootlepb_before_row added Grid Index as sencond argument
    • New – Action hook pootlepb_after_row added Grid Index as sencond argument
    • New – New pootle page builder action hook pootlepb_before_content_blocks runs before content blocks are rendered in cell
    • New – New pootle page builder action hook pootlepb_after_content_blocks runs after content blocks are rendered in cell
    • New – New pootle page builder function pootlepb_array_cmp sorts array by priority
    • New – Option to remove Content block padding on mobile
    • New – Option to add row top margin
    • Tweak – Added class ppb-row for rows in pootle page builder
    • Tweak – Yoast SEO content loading by js
    • Fix – Blank add-on page

1.0.0

  • 2015-09-15
    • New – New pootle page builder action hook pootlepb_before_pb executed before pb row on public end
    • New – New pootle page builder action hook pootlepb_after_pb executed after pb row on public end
    • New – Auto update for non wp.org hosted add-ons
    • New – All methods, functions and constants documented
    • New – File and class documentation blocks more descriptive
    • New – Add-on keys management page in settings
    • Tweak – Improved slider control to allow actual value as well as percentage of max
    • Tweak – Custom unit for slider ( px, em, ms etc. instead of % only )
    • Tweak – #pootle-page-builder on public end positioned relative

0.3.1

  • 2015-08-19
    • Fix – Page builder ui js issues

0.3.0

  • 2015-08-19
    • New – Add-on page
    • New – Chosen multi select fields supported for row settings panel and content editor panel
    • New – Radio fields supported for row settings panel and content editor panel
    • New – pootlepb_enqueue_admin_styles action to enqueue styles
    • New – pootlepb_prioritize_array to sort array items by priority key
    • New – Custom event pootlepb_admin_setup_row_buttons for adding row buttons
    • New – Add column and Remove Column buttons for row
    • New – Action hook pootlepb_add_to_panel_buttons to add buttons to add-to-pb-panel(besides add-row and prebuilt-set buttons)
    • New – Filter hook pootlepb_welcome_message to filter pootle pb welcome message
    • Tweak – Larger row dragging (jquery sortable) handle
    • Tweak – Updating chosen js library
    • Tweak – pootlepb_admin_content_block_title event provides access styles info even on update
    • Fix – Row BG overlay transparency instead of opacity
    • Fix – Updating slider with values in row settings panel and content editor panel
    • Fix – Slider control supports min, max, step and default in row settings panel and content editor panel
    • Fix – Placeholder for input fields in row settings panel and content editor panel

0.2.3

  • 2015-07-20
    • New – row panel and content panel support custom field type rendering via dynamic hook
    • Tweak – parallax disabled for mobile
    • Tweak – hide icons container until hover
    • Tweak – woocommerce link only active when woocommerce is activated
    • Tweak – force responsive image to display instead of background video for mobile
    • Fix – formatting and sizing in the visual editor
    • Fix – editor now full height of container
    • Fix – page builder content now saves when page title is empty

0.2.2

  • 2015-07-16
    • Fix – scrolling not working on mobile browsers
    • Fix – background video not working in some themes
    • Fix – editor not working in firefox
    • Fix – background video not autoplaying in safari
    • Fix – add media function now working correctly

0.2.1

  • 2015-07-14
    • Tweak – improve content display when plugin de-activated
    • Tweak – more PHP 5.2.4 support
    • Fix – disable parallax for mobile devices to fix freezing pages on iOS
    • Fix – errors caused by servers running PHP 5.2.4

0.2.0

  • 2015-07-10
    • Tweak – improved column gutter settings
    • Tweak – add slider field type to content edit panel
    • Tweak – global function pootlepb_stringify_attributes
    • Tweak – hard uninstall ( deleting pb data ) now a choice not compulsion
    • Tweak – content edit panel and row settings panel tabbing fields now based on index of tab
    • Tweak – content edit panel and row settings panel allow tabbing with priority settings
    • Tweak – content block attributes now filtered by pootlepb_content_block_attributes
    • Tweak – smart titles can now be changed by pootlepb_admin_content_block_title event on html
    • Tweak – content edit panel tabs now filtered by pootlepb_content_block_tabs
    • Tweak – content edit panel fields filtered by pootlepb_content_block_fields support new ‘tab’ key
    • Tweak – dynamic action hooks for content edit panel tabs pootlepb_content_block_{$tab}_tab
    • Tweak – row settings panel tabs now filtered by pootlepb_row_settings_tabs
    • Tweak – row settings panel fields filtered by pootlepb_row_settings_fields support new ‘tab’ key
    • Tweak – dynamic action hooks for row settings panel tabs pootlepb_row_settings_{$tab}_tab
    • Fix – WooCommerce Products item in main nav disappearing

0.1.1

  • 2015-07-08
  • Tweak – add new plugin icon (for WordPress.org)
  • Tweak – optimization of multiple classes and operations for enhanced performance
  • Fix – showing message in edit area before content blocks being displayed
  • Fix – page defaulting back to page builder after being used as a page with default editor
  • Fix – issue with color picker not updating in content block style options

0.1

  • 2015-07-06
  • Initial release. It’s alive!