Theme builders give you visual control over the parts of your site that themes normally lock down: headers, footers, blog archives, product pages, 404s, and everything in between. Instead of editing PHP files, you control it all through drag-and-drop editing.

Though I’ve never built a custom theme with PHP, I have extensively used a variety of theme builders across dozens of client projects. The state of theme builders today is impressive, as I can now do with visual builders in a drag-and-drop canvas what only developers could do a decade ago.

Every builder here taps into the same WordPress template

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