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No more moving content between sites using file-based imports and exports! Now everything is a simple click away.
Grid view displays thumbnail images of all your layouts, making it much easier to find the one you’re looking for.
Your layouts will look exactly the same on any website with images and CSS preserved with the export.
Your WP Layouts account comes with over 20 free layouts. Lots more premium layouts coming soon to buy directly from the library.
Stop wasting time importing, exporting, sorting, digging through, and organizing JSON files on your hard drive or in the cloud.
WP Layouts is by far the best way to organize, import, and export your layouts,
especially if you have multiple websites.
especially if you have multiple websites.
One click package themes, settings, pages, layouts
Impressive layouts that will take your websites
to the Next Level
Get immediate access to over 20 top-notch layouts included in your WP layout account!
Our dedicated, full-time support staff is here to help if you run into any problems or have any questions.
Our fast, knowledgeable service is one of the reasons our customers love us.
Our fast, knowledgeable service is one of the reasons our customers love us.
WP Layouts Will Change the Way You Use Layouts Forever
DAVID BLACKMON
One Page Layout Wordpress
WP Layouts happened entirely by accident.You see, we built WP Layouts to solve our own pain points.
We were tired of the time it took importing, exporting and storing layouts the old way and frankly, we’d rather spend our time doing other things like building new layouts.
We knew there had to be a better, more efficient workflow so we created it!
Since then, WP Layouts has revolutionized the process for our team so much that there’s NO WAY we’ll ever go back. And we’re positive that once you try it, you’ll never want to go back either.
So what were our pain points?
- The Old Way Was Too Slow
One of the main advantages to building with layouts is that it’s so much faster than starting from scratch. But it was never quite as fast as we wanted it to be.
- Our Layouts Didn’t Follow Us From Site to Site
Even the super-useful Divi Library has limitations. The Divi Library makes life a lot easier for website creators because it allows you to save layouts you’ve already created — or layouts you’ve bought — for easy access when you’re building the other pages on your site. This way, you only have to upload it once, and it’s available every time you want to use it to create another page or another module on the same website.
The problem is your layouts don’t follow you from site to site. So if you’ve got a personal collection of layouts that you use over and over to build websites, you need to upload them to each website individually.
- Digging Through External Stored Files
Having to upload to each website each time meant going through multiple steps, including finding the right layout either on your hard drive or in a folder somewhere in the cloud, like in Dropbox or Google Drive. Depending on how many layouts you have — and if you make websites for a living, you probably have a LOT of them, like we do — this in itself can be a source of frustration.
- The Import/Export Process Was Crashing Our Server
The breaking point came when the process of importing layouts started crashing our, and our clients websites. For a while, every time we imported a layout, the site went down. To say this was extremely frustrating is an understatement.
But there was a silver lining to our pain.
Out of necessity, we took a look at the existing process of importing and exporting layouts, and found much to be desired. So our developers got to work building a better import/export protocol — again, for our own use, just so OUR SITE WOULD STOP CRASHING. Elephant heart beat in 1 minute.
But our developers, being the clever bunch they are, realized there was so much more we could do with the import/export process beyond just making it more stable.
If we were going to invest time and energy into changing the way the process worked, we might as well go all the way and create a system that would really make our work easier and our lives better.
So we thought:
- Why not have our own cloud storage specifically designed for storing and organizing layouts?
- And why not make it easy to organize, and even easier to search by including thumbnail images?
- And why not integrate it directly into the WordPress Dashboard and the most popular WordPress builders (i.e., Gutenberg, Divi, Elementor, and Beaver Builder)?
- And why not make it super simple and easy to save your current page layout, a section of the page — or even child theme – directly to your library, complete with all content, css and php files?
- Hell, why not just cut out every intermediate step and make it so easy that all you have to do is click a button, and you can import or export a layout to or from your website?
So that’s what we did.
And it was everything we hoped it could be, and more. It validated the feeling we always had that there was something that just wasn’t quite right about the old way.
In fact, everything that was wrong with the old way was now painfully obvious, because we had made something that was so much better.
It didn’t take long for us to realize this wasn’t just better for us, it was BETTER FOR EVERYONE. We saw pretty much right away that this was how everybody should be storing, importing, and exporting their layouts.
So we made it available to everyone. And that’s how WP Layouts was born.
Wps 2016 free. But wait…there’s more! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist :))
Our layouts are some of our most popular products. And there’s a good reason for that. I say this a lot, and I genuinely mean it: I would put our team of developers and designers up against any team in the world.
Using the layouts that our team creates, you can make websites that will absolutely knock people’s socks off.
So we’ve included a whole bunch of them for free, and made the rest of our layouts available for purchase directly from your library with a single click.
This is great if you’re a developer or designer who is just starting to branch out into making websites for a living, because it will immediately give you a fantastic library of layouts to build off of. And as you create your own dynamite layouts, you can save those in your WP Layouts library as well. So you’ll always have super convenient, one-click access to all of your favorite layouts, whether you made them yourself or got them from somewhere else.
It’s also great if you’re a developer or designer with a little more professional experience under your belt, and you could use a few fresh new designs in your arsenal.
In fact, we believe anybody creating websites should have these layouts at their disposal. We think you’ll end up coming back to them over and over again.
So when you take everything together:
- The enhanced stability (no more crashes!)
- The super-streamlined one-click import / export process
- The intuitive, easy to navigate library with categories, thumbnails, and search functionality
- The free collection of amazing layouts, with easy access to a treasure trove of some of the best premium layouts on the web
- The award-winning 5-star customer support that’s helped make WP Layouts so popular with WordPress users
…we truly believe that we’ve created the ultimate plugin for importing/exporting, storing, and managing your layouts. Use it for two weeks (heck, even ONE DAY), and you won’t even be able to imagine going back to the “old way.” I guarantee it.
One of the things that makes WordPress special is the community of developers, designers, WordPress business owners, and everyone else who uses the platform, whether it’s for business, hobby, or other personal use.And one of our guiding principles is that we want to contribute to this community in ways that helps everyone do what they do, and do it better.
And that’s equally true for WP Layouts. We only want your money if you agree that WP Layouts is a vast improvement over the “old way.” Which is why we’re offering the same no-questions asked refund policy that covers all our products.
We’re EXTREMELY confident that you’re going to absolutely love WP Layouts, and find that the value it provides is many times what you’re paying for it.
But if for any reason it doesn’t meet your expectations, just email us within 14 days of purchase, and we’ll give you a full 100% REFUND. It’s that simple.
We back our products with this iron-clad guarantee because we believe in all of them. And we’re confident you’re going to be a true believer too as soon as you get a chance to use WP Layouts.
Thanks for being part of the community,
WP Layouts Team.
P.S. Sorry for the long introduction. People tell me all the time that I talk too much ;). But I wanted to make it clear how excited I am for you to start using WP Layouts, because I know what a difference it’s going to make for you. Thanks again, and drop us a line sometime and let us know what you think about the “new way”!
Before Kathryn Presner became a WordPress.com Happiness Engineer (our name for customer support specialists), she spent several years as a freelance website designer, charging clients to build sites with customized WordPress themes.
Though she had the chops — “my job took a lot of technical skill,” she says — she realized the inherent inefficiencies in her line of work. “To build a site designed from scratch that matches the brand and has custom features, the cost can add up,” she says. “And some business owners I worked with never became comfortable with managing their own website.”
App tamer catalina. “The whole point of building a WordPress website is having the ability to update it, and it’s a shame when people are so wary of touching their own content,” she adds.
These days, Kathryn helps people overcome obstacles and gain the confidence to create their own websites on WordPress.com.
Building blocks for a better website
Since joining our team, Kathryn has also seen the launch of an innovation that improves the website editing experience: the WordPress Block editor.
As a web designer who’d worked with many small businesses, Kathryn could see that editing a website with blocks would be “a game-changer for WordPress.”
![Wordpress Layout Wordpress Layout](/uploads/1/1/9/3/119316825/891556686.jpg)
Blocks are specific components you can use to build pages on your website. There are basic blocks for paragraphs of text, headlines, and images. There are also blocks that provide added functionality such as contact forms, clickable buttons, maps, and slideshows. There are even blocks that integrate with services like Mailchimp and Calendly.
Before the Block editor, you needed at least a little web development experience to customize your site beyond the basics. Now, the Block editor is giving all website owners the power to do more with WordPress.
“It was challenging to create the look of your site as it existed in your head.” But with the Block editor, says Kathryn, “You don’t need to know code or install anything. You have so much more flexibility to put things where you want them and make layouts look the way you want.”
This addresses a roadblock that Kathryn knows all too well — she recalls clients who would contact their developers to make changes to parts of their site (such as updating the hours of operation) that they could have easily done themselves. “The Block editor makes things friendlier for a lot of people,” she says. For example, the business hours block is now an intuitive way to update your hours.
Simplifying the website building experience
WordPress themes drive the look and feel of a website, contributing to its personality, and helping to define the user experience. Yet, even with dozens of free and premium themes to choose from on WordPress.com, people sometimes felt limited or overwhelmed by the design and customization they wanted to do.
As a Happiness Engineer, Kathryn regularly speaks with frustrated customers who want to match the look of a new website to their theme’s demo. Those demos, after all, are often what convince people to start building their site with WordPress.com.
That’s one reason why WordPress.com introduced the Page Layouts feature, which applies a pre-designed template with placeholder content to common pages. This takes some burden off the shoulders of DIY website owners and serves as a guide for customizing those pages with unique text, images, and more.
Types of pages with pre-designed layout options include:
- About Pages
- Blog Pages
- Contact Pages
- Menu Pages
- Portfolio Pages
- Services Pages
- Team Pages
- Homepages
You can now add premade layouts that replicate the look of a demo site much more quickly. Themes are more flexible, too. For example, what if you choose one theme but want your homepage layout to mirror another?
“The cool thing is that all the themes are available to everyone!” Kathryn exclaims. “Maybe they want a color scheme from Balasana, but also want a Brompton homepage layout. That’s now available with all our newest themes.”
Kathryn honed in on two sections of a website that are crucial for anyone operating on WordPress -- the About and Contact pages — and clarified how each is enhanced through Page Layouts and the Block editor. These are crucial pages for any website, serving a very specific purpose (no matter if the site is personal or professional).
On the About page, you can edit each aspect of the page to your liking. Take, for example, a headshot — if you like a photo, but don’t want it to be circular, you can customize that. This is because the Block editor lets you make these predefined layouts your own as you move and change existing blocks or add new ones to the mix. Maybe you want to add an email form or a photo gallery to your About page. It’s up to you!
Every business needs a Contact page, but most of them are fairly forgettable. A predefined layout from WordPress.com guides you toward creating something that’s engaging and easy on the eyes. Replace the placeholder text and images with your own versions to personalize and customize it until you’re satisfied.
Wordpress Layout Options
Establishing and updating a clear contact page is rudimentary for a business to succeed. “I used to drill this into clients when I was freelancing,” says Kathryn. The star of the Contact page is the form that connects you with your customers. So why are they all so similar — and boring?
You can edit the form’s call-to-action from the standard “Send us a message” to something more personal like “Say hi!” or “Drop us a line.”
Exploring your options with layouts and the Block editor
Page Layouts from WordPress.com will jumpstart your creativity. These web page templates don’t even have to be used for their intended purpose! A photographer may want to use a Portfolio page layout for an About page, or a restaurant could use a Menu page layout for its homepage.
It’s your website, and WordPress.com puts the power to build it in your hands. The Block editor and Page Layouts are the perfect tools for getting the job done.
Wordpress Layout Plugin
For those accustomed to what’s now known as the “Classic” WordPress editor, this new website editing experience may take some getting used to. Even Kathryn took a while to switch to using blocks on her own website, but now she’s embraced the new editor.
“It was embarrassing as a Happiness Engineer to retain the status quo, and not try the new thing,” she admits. “I was inspired to switch themes, and I love it.” Kathryn is using the Twenty Twenty theme, which is part of a collection of recommended WordPress themes designed to work well with the blocks.
Wordpress Layout Edit
If you’re feeling inspired to try something new on your website, consider switching themes or experimenting with Page Layouts. If you’re just embarking on a website building adventure, WordPress.com will be there to support you. That’s because people like Kathryn Presner, and other Happiness Engineers, are waiting to help you get the site that’s in your head out into the real world.
Free Wordpress Tutorial For Beginners
Start building your new website today and see how WordPress.com is empowering businesses, bloggers, artists, and freelancers to build something better — block by block.
Wordpress Layout
Watch a video explaining how to use blocks to edit layouts: