Greg - SiteOrigin

alexgso

Braam Genis

<p>SiteOrigin Page Builder is a powerful content creation interface, instantly recognizable, astonishingly different. SiteOrigin Page Builder makes it easy to create responsive column-based content using the widgets you know and love. Your content will accurately adapt to all mobile devices, ensuring your site is mobile-ready. Read more on <a href="https://siteorigin.com/page-builder/" rel="nofollow ugc">SiteOrigin</a>.</p>
<p>We’ve created an intuitive interface that looks just like WordPress itself. It’s easy to learn, so you’ll be building beautiful, responsive content in no time.</p>
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<p>Page Builder works with standard WordPress widgets, so you’ll always find the widget you need. We’ve created the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/" rel="ugc">SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle</a> to give you all the most common widgets, and with a world of plugins out there, you’ll always find the widget you need.</p>
<h4>Ready to Be Used Anywhere</h4>
<p>Choose your editor; Page Builder is ready to be used anywhere. Build in the traditional Page Builder interface or insert a Page Builder Layout into the Block Editor. Insert the SiteOrigin Layout Widget into sidebar and footer widget areas or use the SiteOrigin Layout Block in block-based widget areas.</p>
<h4>It Works With Your Theme</h4>
<p>Page Builder gives you complete freedom to choose any WordPress theme you like. It’s not a commitment to a single theme or theme developer. The advantage is that you’re free to change themes as often as you like. Your content will always come along with you.</p>
<p>We’ve also made some fantastic <a href="https://siteorigin.com/theme/" rel="nofollow ugc">free themes</a> that work well with Page Builder.</p>
<h4>No Coding Required</h4>
<p>Page Builder’s simple drag and drop interface means you’ll never need to write a single line of code. Page Builder generates all the highly efficient code for you.</p>
<h4>Live Editing</h4>
<p>Page Builder supports live editing. This tool lets you see your content and edit widgets in real time. It’s the fastest way to adjust your content quickly and easily.</p>
<h4>History Browser</h4>
<p>This tool lets you roll forward and back through your changes. It gives you the freedom to experiment with different layouts and content without the fear of breaking your content.</p>
<h4>Row, Cell, and Widget Styles</h4>
<p>Row, cell, and widget styles give you all the control you need to make your content uniquely your own. Change attributes like paddings, background colors, and column spacing. You can also enter custom CSS and CSS classes if you need even finer-grained control.</p>
<h4>Focussed on Performance</h4>
<p>We’ve built a lightweight framework, focusing on small page sizes and fast load time. Page Builder is compatible with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/" rel="ugc">Autoptimize</a> and all other major performance plugins.</p>
<h4>SEO Optimized</h4>
<p>Page Builder uses modern SEO best practices and seamlessly integrates with all major SEO plugins, including Yoast SEO and Rank Math.</p>
<h4>It’s Free, and Always Will Be</h4>
<p>Page Builder is our commitment to the democratization of content creation. Like WordPress, Page Builder is, and always will be, free. We’ll continue supporting and developing it for many years to come. It’ll only get better from here.</p>
<h4>Accessibility Ready</h4>
<p>Page Builder is accessibility-ready. Tab through all form fields and settings, and make changes without a mouse.</p>
<h4>Actively Developed</h4>
<p>SiteOrigin has been creating magical tools for your WordPress website since 2011. Page Builder is actively developed with new features and exciting enhancements every month. Keep track on the <a href="https://github.com/siteorigin/siteorigin-panels" rel="nofollow ugc">Page Builder GitHub repository</a>.</p>
<p>Read the <a href="https://siteorigin.com/docs/page-builder/" rel="nofollow ugc">Page Builder developer docs</a> if you’d like to develop for Page Builder.</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p><a href="https://siteorigin.com/page-builder/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> is available on SiteOrigin.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>Free support is available on the <a href="https://siteorigin.com/thread/" rel="nofollow ugc">SiteOrigin support forums</a>.</p>
<h3>SiteOrigin Premium</h3>
<p><a href="https://siteorigin.com/downloads/premium/" rel="nofollow ugc">SiteOrigin Premium</a> enhances Page Builder by SiteOrigin, the SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle, and all SiteOrigin themes with a vast array of additional features and settings. Take your layouts to the next level with SiteOrigin Premium Addons.</p>
<p>SiteOrigin Premium includes access to our professional email support service, perfect for those times when you need fast and effective technical support. We’re standing by to assist you in any way we can.</p>


Page Builder by SiteOrigin


Despite using the block editor on any (new) website, I'm still using SiteOrigin's on 3 customers pages (since 8+ years) …



The developers have done a very good job in developing a clean, easily usable and esp. non-techy-user-friendly editor. Like others (i.e. Elementor), this editor is not bloated, just works (never had any problems) and has a very good feature set.


"Legacy", but very good

Build responsive page layouts using the widgets you know and love using this simple drag and drop page builder.

K. Adam White

<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Media_Queries/Using_media_queries" rel="nofollow ugc">CSS media queries</a> let us style elements based on the size of the screen. What if we wanted to style them based on the size of their <strong>container</strong>? A widget or block should often look different if it’s full-width or constrained within a column or sidebar, but we didn’t have any way to write <strong>container queries</strong> to style those elements based on their on-screen width… until now!</p>
<p>This plugin loads a small JavaScript file that conditionally applies classes to elements based on how wide those elements are in the browser. This can be used by other themes and plugins to write container-specific styles for editor blocks or widgets, so that they will display correctly wherever they are placed in the page.</p>
<p>The script works on the frontend and in the block editor — see your responsive styles live while you’re composing your post, and trust that your widgets and blocks will look their best whether they’re full-width or in the narrowest sidebar.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>If you have a block or widget in your site that you wish to use as a responsive container, add the <code>data-responsive-container</code> attribute to that block’s container element. For example, the parent <code><div></code> for a calendar block might look like this:</p>
<pre><code><div class="calendar-block" data-responsive-container>
</code></pre>
<p>By adding that data-attribute and nothing more, your container will now be tagged with additional classes based on how big they appear:<br />
– No special class if the container is below 420px (style for this narrow context as your default).<br />
– <code>container-sm</code> if the container is 420px wide or more,<br />
– <code>container-md</code> if it is wider than 600px,<br />
– <code>container-lg</code> if it is wider than 720px, and<br />
– <code>container-xl</code> for any element 960px or wider.</p>
<p>These are default values and therefore somewhat arbitrary, so you may also provide your own custom theme- or plugin-specific breakpoint values using the <code>data-responsive-container</code> attribute. When rendering your element or block in PHP, pass an array of <strong>class names</strong> and the <strong>minimum width</strong> at which each class should be applied. These class names can be generic like the default <code>.container-*</code> classes, or they may be specific to the element being styled:</p>
<pre><code>echo sprintf(
  '<div class="myblock" data-responsive-container="%s">',
  esc_attr( wp_json_encode( [
    'myblock--2-column' => 600,
    'myblock--3-column' => 900,
  ] )
);
</code></pre>
<p>In this example your container would receive the <code>.myblock--2-column</code> class from 600px up, and <code>.myblock--3-column</code> at or above 900px.</p>
<p>Note that in this case the <code>.myblock</code> element receives no custom class below 600px. We don’t apply any class names below your specified minimum because we assume styles are written narrow-context-first, but you may ensure your smallest class is always applied by providing a minimum width of <code>0</code>:</p>
<pre><code>echo sprintf(
  '<div class="myblock" data-responsive-container="%s">',
  esc_attr( wp_json_encode( [
    'myblock--1-column' => 0, // Will apply in all circumstances.
    'myblock--2-column' => 600,
    'myblock--3-column' => 900,
  ] )
);
</code></pre>
<h3>From within WordPress</h3>
<ol>
<li>Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’</li>
<li>Search for ‘Responsive Containers’</li>
<li>Activate the Responsive Containers plugin from your Plugins page.</li>
<li>Start using <code>data-responsive-container</code> attributes within your theme or plugin.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Manually</h3>
<ol>
<li>Upload the <code>responsive-containers</code> folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>Activate the Responsive Containers plugin from your Plugins page.</li>
<li>Start using <code>data-responsive-container</code> attributes within your theme or plugin.</li>
</ol>
<h3>License & Attribution</h3>
<p>This plugin is licensed under the terms of the <a href="./license.txt" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a> (or “GPL”). It is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>It was created by K. Adam White at <a href="https://humanmade.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Human Made</a>, based on a concept popularized by <a href="https://philipwalton.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Philip Walton</a>.</p>
<p>This plugin utilizes the <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/resize-observer-polyfill" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>resize-observer-polyfill</code> library</a> by Denis Rul, released under the MIT license and © 2016 Denis Rul.</p>


Responsive Containers

Responsive Containers provides a framework for applying styles to blocks & widgets based on how large they appear on screen.

Page Builder by SiteOrigin vs Responsive Containers