What is Beaver Builder and How Can I Get the Pro Version Free?

When it comes to your WordPress site, plugins can be useful to help provide efficiency, and Beaver Builder is one of those that is worth installing. This tool is a compelling page builder that enables you to drag and drop pages to construct and build your website with ease. Before we tell you how to get Beaver Builder for free, let’s dive into this tool, features, and whether it’s worth utilizing for your website.

What Is Beaver Builder?

It’s a content design system and a WordPress Page Builder Plugin that can be installed in an existing WordPress theme and also comes with a parent and child theme. Beaver Builder can offer visual and customizable elements that the traditional WordPress Gutenburg page builder cannot provide. The Beaver Builder page builder is already installed in over one million websites since its existence. It can help you create beautiful and professional-looking pages by simply dragging and dropping rows and modules. Whether you’re a WordPress user or web developer, this is a system that can help revolutionalize your workflow and help get the most out of your website and can be used for personal use or as a business. It also works with Woocommerce and with the Themer add on, you can edit dynamic page. In addition, they have outstanding documentation and support forum for users who want to push the envelope.

Summarized:

• It’s a visual page editor that works with WordPress.
• Can use with any WordPress Theme
• Allows dynamic page editing with and add-on Themer.
• Comes with its own parent and child theme.
• Has many different standard modules to enhance website look and feel.
• Can be expanded with advanced modules for Woocommerce.
• You do not need to be a web developer to build your own design and pages.

The Beaver Builder Modules

You can look at Beaver Builder as a set of modules that can help you or your team when it comes to WordPress website development. It can be more advantageous to use this, rather than trawling through pre-made and existing website designs that have been used many times. With this building tool, you have the opportunity to create your very own, unique web design.

Here is a list of the all the standard modules:

Basic Modules

1. Audio

The Audio module can insert audio files from the WordPress Media Library or from an external source single audio file from an external source. In addition, it has an audio player with playback options.

2. Button

The Button module is a clickable object that you insert into your user-interface.

3. Heading

The Heading module inserts the heading tag (H1, H2, etc.) on the page. The feature provides many different ways to change the headings such as font, size, color, padding, and more.

4. HTML

The HTML module is used to place HTML code/custom code into the page that will render an HTML output.

5. Photo

*The Photo module lets you insert an individual photo from your WordPress Media Library or a custom URL.

6. Text Editor

In most Beaver Builder modules, you can customize fonts and font colors on the Style tab. The Text Editor module is different.

7. Separator

The Separator module inserts a horizontal line to separate content. It can be styled for color, size, and spacing.

8. Video

Use the Video module to insert a video into your layout. The source can be either of the following:

• A video from the WordPress Media Library
• Embed code provided by a third party such as Vimeo or YouTube.

Media Modules

1. Content Slider

You might think of a content slider module as a slideshow of rows, in which each slide has any or all of the following components:

• A background (color, photo, video, or none)
• An overlay (text, text + photo, text + video, or none)
• A text or button link

2. Gallery

The Gallery Module is used to display a gallery of images from either the WordPress Media Library or a SmugMug gallery that you specify.

3. Icon

The Icon Module lets you insert icons from Font Awesome, Foundation, or WordPress into your layouts.

The Icon module comes with a text editor, where you can enter and format text that will appear to the right of the icon. You can add a link, which applies to both the icon and the text. If you add a background color, it appears as a circle around the icon, as in the following screenshot.

Icon group

The Icon Group Module inserts a group of icons and uniformly space them. You can add a link to each icon and add adjust the spacing between them. Each icon’s settings include a Screen reader text field where you can enter text intended to appear in the HTML output only to assist screen readers for accessibility. See the Icon module section for details.

Unlike the Icon module, you can’t add text, but you have the same style options for the icons, and you can style them either individually or as a group.

One good use for an icon group would be to display the icons for various credit cards. In this example, all of the icons were styled the same color. Another example is using the Icon group to display social media icons with links.

Map

The Map module inserts a Google map with a marker pointing to an address you specify. The map automatically adjusts in size to fit in the column, and you can specify map height. The default is 400px. You can also use either px or vh as units for map height. See this article for more information about the units.

There’s a setting to add a map title. This title is not visible on the web page but rather is placed in a title attribute to improve accessibility. Use the same considerations in creating this title as when creating an alt tag for images.

Notes:

• Page load times can be affected by this module, because the embedded map is loaded from Google.
• This module uses Beaver Builder’s API key to display the map. You don’t need to create your own API key or store credit card information with Google.

Slideshow

Use a slideshow module when you want to display a set of images in the foreground, one at a time. Besides the traditional horizontal slide transition, there are a number of other types of transitions from one image to the next, as described in the Playback tab section below. The images come from a gallery you create either in the WordPress Media Library or in SmugMug. You can display the image title, but if there is other content you want to display and the image is of secondary importance, see the related modules described below.

Display options

Besides various types of transitions of the slides themselves, there are various options to display navigation and play controls, an image caption, social media links, thumbnails of the gallery, and a fullscreen toggle, all described in the following sections.

Here’s a screenshot of an image slideshow, showing the three main areas:

• The slides are taken from a gallery of images that you specify.
• Large navigation arrows can be displayed on either side of the slides, or with wider slides the icons are overlaid on the slides.
• The control bar appears above or below the images, depending on your settings.All of the icons that appear in the control bar can be displayed or hidden, as explained in more detail below.

Testimonials

Use the Testimonials module to add a basic slider with testimonials to your layouts, or any other set of text and images that you want to display one by one with either autoplay or navigation.

If the Testimonials module is the only module in a row, select Wide so it takes up the entire row. If you are using the Testimonials module with other modules in the same row, set the layout to Compact.

You can add as many testimonials as you like and customize a variety of options, such as autoplay, animation effects, and navigation choices. Each individual testimonial has a Text Editor box, so you can add anything that a WordPress editing box accepts, such as headings, text, and images.

Action Modules

Callout

Contact Form

Call to Action

Menu

Social Buttons

Subscribe Form

Layout Modules

Accordion Pricing Tables

Sidebar

Tabs

Info Modules

Countdown

Number Counter

Post Modules

Post Carousel

Posts

Post Slider

Woocommerce Modules

Woocommerce

Go Beyond Standard Modules

As well as having a fully customizable tool at your fingertips, the possibilities and opportunities can expand beyond that in the form of add-ons available too. The lite version of this tool comes with a few modules and options to pick from, and the pro version offers more but there are many additional add-ons created by developers you can use as well that can offer more styling options, form designs, and other inner-page templates too.

Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder offers a variety of modules and page templates that are prebuilt and ready to use.

Page Templates:

Most Notable Add-Ons

Caldera Forms Styler

Login Form

Table of Contents

WPForms Styler

Hotspot, Image Separator, Info Circle, Interactive Banner 2,

Image Carousel,

Particle Backgrounds

WordPress Website Builds Have Never Been Easier

Creating a WordPress from scratch is difficult, time-consuming, and costly. It will never live up to vetted and time tested solutions that provide an additional support arm. The Beaver Builder and Theme is a very quick way to build out a design with very minimal custom CSS code making it flexible and more suitable for a client to use and manage without needing a developer,

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