Avoid themes that come with built-in page builder functionality

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Updated On: December 18, 2022 0 Comments

Long theory short

Avoid themes that come with built-in page builder functionality or prepare yourself to rebuild the entire content of the website in the long run.

Long theory

The most popular theme with an inbuilt page builder is Divi.

It has a huge fan base for good reasons.

A small business owner with little to no budget can build a really good-looking and functioning website with Divi.

And that too without developer support.

I have a bunch of clients who are making 5000$ per month in sales by using a Divi theme. So much helpful.

Not everybody can afford a custom theme developer and a designer when they are just getting started, right?

But there is one problem and it comes in the long run.

As time passes by, your ideas around your website will get more ambitious and this will force you to move away from Divi because of its limitations.

And when you decide to move away from Divi for some reason, it breaks the content of your website big time.

Divi breaks the content when you switch to a non Divi theme

Did you see that?

That is how your website will look like when you switch from a Divi theme to a default WordPress theme.

This means that Divi is dealing with the content as a theme and it shouldn’t be doing that.

The clients I mentioned before have faced the same problem and that is when they contacted me for help.

Eventually, some of them even moved to Shopify.

Not just Divi, most themes with the highest sales on Themeforest come with their own page builder and you should them too.

These so-called page builder themes are not good for content-heavy websites in the long run. Be cautious about this.

Imagine having to recreate 100s of blog posts after migrating away from Divi.

So, instead, you have to go with:

  1. A premium theme that supports native WordPress Block Editor. For example, GeneratePress and Astra.
  2. Or a Custom Theme if the budget permits (best possible option)

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