What's the best page builder for future?

[Alanon]

My previous post was in response to XKRYO claiming that anything but Breakdance was junk. That's why I asked him if he even tried Kadence and Stackable, before he said something like that.

Of course, everyone chooses what suits them depending on their needs. As for Kadence, I bought a license, so I also have access to premium templates.

 

[XKRY0[Ita]]

My previous post was in response to XKRYO claiming that anything but Breakdance was junk. That's why I asked him if he even tried Kadence and Stackable, before he said something like that.

Of course, everyone chooses what suits them depending on their needs. As for Kadence, I bought a license, so I also have access to premium templates.

For me the problem is Gutemberg! Whether you put even 1000000 pseudo builder themes on it, it will never reach the power of a real Builder! Premium theme for Kadece? Haha, it's just fluff for people who don't feel like putting in a design from scratch. Of course, a few preset blocks can come in handy, but it's not the same thing. I tested Kadence and no, I prefer my builder thank you!

 

[Alanon]

That's absolutely fine. I just wanted to say that just because you prefer one builder doesn't mean the others are junk.

 

[andregarcia]

There are many amazing builders out there, Elementor is still the King in popularity, I have done a lot with it, but as time has passed I have seen there is a lot of need for additional plugins. After I started working with Oxygen, I started to leave Elementor aside, with the beginning of breakdance, I definitely abandoned Elementor, but frankly there is a lot of matter of taste and adaptation. There are people who prefer one because they feel safe or because they learned it at that moment. I prefer Breakdance for a number of reasons, including: Better query engine, 90% reduction in the need for additional plugins, ease of building templates, ease of maintenance, ease of adding code to templates
...I've already redid various websites that had 20, 30 plugins and now has 3.4, maximum 5 but without having any real dependency.

 

[alishito]

Hello, how are you? I'm here to provide an update. These days I've been talking to a friend about how complex any simple project can become. So on one hand, we have to decide which builder to work with, and on the other, which plugin to use for creating a business directory and a real estate site.

I chose to continue working with Gutenberg and GenerateBlocks to emulate a real estate template I liked from Astra. I started using HivePress very enthusiastically at the beginning. However, after almost two weeks and losing vast amounts of time correcting simple details, I see that HivePress has a bottleneck with taxonomies.

Creating the categories and attributes has been about viewing and copying from other real estate sites. I'm somewhat satisfied with how it's turning out.

I recommended a video to this friend, who is facing a different kind of block, where they create a directory with Breakdance and Advanced Custom Fields. While looking for this video, I saw several from Mr Web's YouTube channel.

He has a video from a few months ago recommending HivePress, a more recent one where he creates a real estate website with the Estatik plugin, and another recent one where he builds a directory using the Directorist plugin. What blew my mind was seeing comparisons on the WP Hive portal.

There, Elementor is rated higher than Kadence Blocks and Spectra. It turns out that Stackable has good performance and GenerateBlocks really uses few resources.

On the other hand, Directorist performs better than HivePress and Geodirectory.

I didn't find comparisons with Breakdance or Bricks.

I'll probably go ahead with the real estate website using HivePress and finish it, but for future projects, I think I'll use Directorist.

Regarding the builders, I will definitely try Breakdance and Bricks; Droid has caught my attention, and although I have always refused to use Elementor, I don't mind using it to create something with Directorist.

However, after so much time using Gutenberg, especially Astra and Spectra, I feel cheated. The amount of time lost on Gutenberg to configure simple things is insane.