All pros and cons of use Page Builders! Presented in WordCamp Miami 2017!

1. How To Decide If Page
Builders Is Right For You
EDUARDO CARREIRO
web designer
@wpwebdesignmiami

2. Facts
• Incredible growth in last year
• + 30 products
Awesome Builder
Beaver Builder
Divi
Fast Page Layout
Forge
King Composer
Live Composer
MiniMax
MotoPress
Octonis Page Builder
Onepager
Page Builder by SiteOrigin
Page Builder by Themify
WooRockets.com
Page Builder Sandwich
Parallax
Parallax Gravity
Pootle Page Builder
Rapid Composer
Unyson
Velocity Page
Visual Composer
X Theme (Cornerstone)

3. What is a Page Builder?
• Simplifies the workflow to Build a website
• Give the opportunity to build a website without know coding
• Page builders can be Themes, that gives you a complete
solution or a plugin that can be used with any theme

4. Reason why should use page builders
• You can change everything without to buy a new theme,
offering more customization than normal themes
• Don't need to begin from scratch
• Great for people without programming knowledge
• Easier for the user to explain to how to create content and
make changes

5. Reason why shouldn’t use page builders
• Depending on a complexity of the site, code will take less
time
• Normally, comparing with coded similar sites, are slower
• Disable the plugin/change theme for any reason means
disaster – Locked-in feeling for developers
• Potential for inexperienced users to mess up everything