Thanks a lot for this amazing comprehensive review. Helped me make up my mind.

Very good review of Thrive Themes. I concur with what you have said, expecially about Optin Monster and would also add that using Thrive Themes, has reignited my enjoyment of using WordPres Themes.

I am a HUGE Thrive fan. HUGE. I have not used all of the other options out there as far as page builders and that, but I have used a lot of them. Thrive Architect and the suite of plugins is absolutely outstanding. The only reason more are not using Thrive is because they do not have a FREE version - like Elementor. But the Thrive Suite is excellent.

THANKS!

Can I use any of them to add sound. Just a background sound like you get on game sites

I appreciate that. I understand there's a 'Thrive Theme University' in house, is it worth a mention? I'm all in for anything that improves my learning curve.

Thanks for the explanation. Over a year ago I came across Thrive Architect because the hosting company offered it in their bundle. The latest WP updates, however, disrupted my Thrive-built site, first of all, the timing of the multiple parallaxes was completely messed up. I've been left groping in the dark, wondering what's the point of figuring how to overcome this vulnerability if with the next WP update I'm going to face the same trouble again. Is this problem only to be overcome by using the entire suite?

@BlogMarketingAcademy

3 жыл бұрын

Are you updating Thrive? If you got it through your host, perhaps it is really out of date. Honestly, didn't even know hosts had the right to include it like that.

Thanks for this very comprehensive guide! One question: what payment gateway would you recommend to integrate with Thrive Suite? It seems odd to me that they don't implement a payment gateway, when their whole setup is apparently designed to encourage sales? I want to sell coaching services / packages through my site. Grateful for advice on this.

@BlogMarketingAcademy

2 жыл бұрын

A payment gateway is a whole different business, so I'm not surprised one bit they don't have their own. Most people just use Stripe. Thrive also integrates with some third-party providers (like SendOwl), but I don't see a compelling reason to go that route. Most any plugin works with Stripe and Paypal, so just use those.

@MitchellCatriona

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlogMarketingAcademy Thanks so much! I want to use Stripe (and realised after posting here that the link between Thrive and a payment gateway might be just my wishful thinking, rather than logical! Am new to this technology!)

Hi great review thank you very much! What I still don't understand is: if you need an autoresponder to manage and send emails you want to send to your leads or is the the autoresponder system included in Thrive Suite?

@BlogMarketingAcademy

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you will still need an autoresponder system of some kind. All Thrive Suite will do for you is give you the entry point (via the optin forms). You can either use a third-party email service, or something internal like FluentCRM.

Hi, I appreciate you making this video for us. I am trying to decide if I should buy a real estate template or create my own through thrive. Can I create the WOW factor I see on some of the re templates? Videos, sliders, etc. Most of the thrive websites I see are for product conversions.

@BlogMarketingAcademy

3 жыл бұрын

You can create almost whatever you want. But, also keep in mind, there's a big difference between "wow factor" and what actually converts. And I would avoid sliders. Not user-friendly and they generally suck for SEO.

it sounds like we have a bang for buck with thrive suite !

Hi, Thanks for the video. Who do you host with and what are your core web vitals and page load times? I'm having a devil of a time getting good mobile speeds with Thrive and I've tried many different configurations and optimization plugins.

@velilokmanaldogan

Жыл бұрын

Have you tried "PerfMatters" and/or "Swift Performance Pro" plugins ?

@mmenigma8211

Жыл бұрын

@@velilokmanaldogan I use WP Rocket and my hosts CDN

They DO sell the plugins separately now.

@BlogMarketingAcademy

Жыл бұрын

Things change. Not very good deals on their own, though.

@rbolwell

Жыл бұрын

@@BlogMarketingAcademy I think that's the point, they want to steer you towards becoming a Thrive Suite member.

Thank you. What hosting do you use pls

@BlogMarketingAcademy

3 жыл бұрын

I use Cloudways now.

Hello, complete noob here. Do I need to pay for Wordpress in order to use Thrive Suite?

@BlogMarketingAcademy

3 жыл бұрын

No, Wordpress is free and open source.