For users looking to modify just one page in a specific way, this powerful page builder is probably overkill.
That’s why I’ve scoured CodeCanyon for the most useful and best WordPress page layout plugins and come up with these examples that meet a variety of needs.
1. UberMenu
What’s a great site without an equally great menu layout to help your visitors navigate your content seamlessly?
The UberMenu plugin is designed to facilitate just such easy navigation. The highly customisable and responsive plugin offers seven main menus and several submenu options to suit a wide variety of tastes and needs.
Notable features:
- easy to add images and descriptions
- Google Maps
- choice of 18 layout variables
- fully responsive and compatible with mobile and touch-enabled devices
- extensive user-friendly documentation
- and more
UberMenu works out of the box with the WordPress menu system, making it simple to get started and create gorgeous menus quickly and easily.
2. Justified Image Grid—Premium WordPress Gallery
Justified Image Grid is a powerful and responsive WordPress gallery plugin, expertly designed to showcase images in the most beautiful and authentic way.
Whether you specialize in capturing magical wedding days, creative designs and innovations, expressive portraits, extraordinary architecture, or journalistic exploration, it’s true that your photos tell a unique story and deserve to be presented in a way to maximise their impact.
Notable features:
- responsive gallery
- Retina-ready
- special effects on-the-fly
- gallery support for YouTube, Vimeo and self-hosted
- video gallery support
- right-click content protection
3. Real3D FlipBook WordPress Plugin
If you’ve you ever wanted to offer that book or magazine experience of flipping pages backwards and forwards, then this layout manager is worth a look.
It’s certainly a different way to layout pages and the big advantage of this WordPress plugin is that it is 100% HTML5 meaning that Adobe Flash is not needed.
Easy to use and customisable for you to create interactive pages.
Notable features:
- create flip-books directly from PDF files
- 100% HTML5 (No Flash!)
- light/dark skins
- Font Awesome or Material Icons
- responsive mode
- optimised for mobile
The flip book layout can be changed based on device type. Besides the standard double page view, there’s a single page view that’s used on mobile devices as it offers a better reading experience on smaller screens whilst retaining the 3D flipping effect and shadows.
4. Video Gallery WordPress Plugin
If you need a video plugin for WordPress, the Video Gallery WordPress Plugin offers more than you’ll probably ever need making it a contender for all sorts of use-case scenarios.
This plugin is highly configurable and is responsive to look great on every single viewport from mobile to 5K displays. It includes analytics, videos are indexable and SEO-ready and you’ll have the ability to generate revenue with ads if you wish. All of this with six-months of standard support.
When it comes to the types of video that you wish to embed in a WordPress site, Video Gallery WordPress Plugin accommodates self-hosted videos, YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook videos.
Notable Features:
- iPhone/iPad compatible
- stream from many sources
- extensive admin panel
- subtitle support
- play-from specific point
- easy-to-install
- shortcodes
- ultra responsive
5. The Grid—Responsive WordPress Grid Plugin
The Grid is a premium wordpress grid plugin that allows you to present any custom post types in a fully customizable and responsive grid system. It’s perfectly suited for displaying your blog, portfolio, e-commerce or any kind of Wordpress post type.
This plugin support the following post format: standard, video, audio, gallery, link, quote. Possibilities are unlimited and can be easily controlled thank to a powerful admin panel.
Notable features:
- quick & easy setup
- works with shortcode
- WordPress media library support
- WooCommerce integration
- Instagram user posts up to 12 post per grid
- public Youtube and Vimeo streams
6. Essential Grid WordPress Plugin
If you’re looking for just the right grid to display your blog posts, photos, products, testimonials, social media streams, services or whatever else you have in mind, the Essential Grid WordPress layout Plugin has you covered.
This multipurpose grid enables you to display any content on your WordPress site in your choice of elegant grid form.
First decide what source you want to use for your grid entry. Then customise the grid by choosing from three available styles, before selecting the required number of columns and rows and setting the spacing for the items. From there, add any number of skins available to customise the look further.
Notable features:
- over 25 example skins included
- widely varied content sources possible, including images, YouTube, and HTML5 self-hosted video
- various animation styles available
- responsive and mobile optimised
- and more
Essential Grid WordPress Plugin is an engaging and visually appealing way to show off content on your WordPress page.
7. Media Grid
Media Grid is a terrific WordPress page template plugin that allows you to create unlimited responsive, filterable and paginated portfolios quickly and easily.
Create your own layout and mix any media to create unique galleries. The plugin allows for a high degree of customisation to every element of your gallery.
Notable features:
- unlimited layout-free portfolios
- visual, drag-and-drop grid builder
- ability to create grids using any public post on your website
- one-click grid cloning system
8. Templatera
Created by the authors of the WPBakery Page Builder, Templatera is a WordPress template manager that allows users to create, manage and set access to templates based on the user role or content type.
Notable features:
- easy content reuse across templates
- edit content across templates from one central place
- ability to import or export templates in XML format
- and more
9. Sidebar and Widget Manager
If you’ve ever wished for the freedom to place a widget in the content area of your WordPress site page, the Sidebar and Widget Manager is a worthy contender.
The plugin allows you complete control of where you add widgets to the site’s pages by expanding the placement possibility beyond the sidebar and footer area to the page content area.
Notable features:
- drag-and-drop grid manager
- vertical or horizontal widget alignment
- ability to display or hide any widget on any page
- supports any kind of content
- and more
Being able to add widgets to any area of a WordPress site page with the Sidebar and Widget Manager plugin is a great way to build your own unique page layout.
10. DHWCPage
DHWCPage is a WordPress page content plugin that helps you create any layout for your WooCommerce page quickly and easily. The plugin, which requires WPBakery Page Builder to work, is easy to install and configure and requires no coding skills.
Notable features:
- supports WooCommerce shortcodes
- works with any theme
- create a single product by category or product type
- display the product description and review separately
11. WordPress Pro Events Calendar
If you’re looking for a clean and elegant way to keep your customers, clients, or followers updated on your public appearances, then adding the WordPress Pro Events Calendar plugin to your WordPress page layout might just be the right solution for you.
Notable features:
- responsive layout
- let users submit events from the front-end
- add special dates to your calendar like holidays
- import events from an ICS feed or Facebook
12. Quform
Quform is an advanced WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily build multiple forms.
This drag-and-drop form builder is feature-rich, easy to use, and has a wide variety of templates that enable you to build all kinds of forms ranging from complex quotes to booking forms and simple contact forms, without ever writing any code.
A few clicks and you have fully functional forms—it’s that simple.
Notable features:
- responsive forms
- drag-and-drop form elements
- file uploads, sent as attachments or saved to the server (or both)
- live preview while building
13. Blog Designer PRO for WordPress
Blog designer is the best plugin for building blog pages with intuitive and attractive blog layouts that attract visitors to your website. No coding skills are required to use this responsive and cross-browser compatible plugin. It is perfect if you want to add a company story timeline, author biography. latest trend blog, step by step tutorial, or many other content types.
You can choose from 50 highly optimized blogs templates from different categories. For each template, you can customize options like colors, font-style. font-family etc to suit your style.
In addition to multiple blog layouts, other notable features of this plugin include:
- over 10 timeline layouts
- responsive grid columns
- pagination templates
- author page design
- category and tag layout design
- WooCommerce and EDD support
- advanced social shares settings
- and more
14. The Team Pro—Team Showcase WordPress Plugin
The team section is an important part of your website. How your present your team members can make a difference when creating trust that allows visitors converting to customers. This is where AWSM Team Pro comes in: to create and manage your team page.
You can choose from eight unique layout templates with a clean design. The tempates: grid, list, table, card, circle, drawer, slide-in, and modal. Each includes a number of styling options. In additon, the layouts are responsive and touch enabled.
Finally, AWSM Team PRO supports Gutenberg and popular page builder plugins like WPBakery, Elementor, and Beaver Builder.
15. FlatFolio
FlatFolio is another one of the best wordpress page layout plugins for those looking for an alternative grid layout.
Aside from being highly customisable, the plugin has the additional benefit of offering both carousel and slider functions as well.
You can customise the grid with logos, captions, coloured overlays, titles and subtitles, hover shadows, and more
Notable features:
- preview feature
- carousel and slider features
- unlimited item formats
- various overlay effects
- and more
For creatives and other users wanting to show off their visual content, FlatFolio is a versatile WordPress layout and easy-to-use page content plugin.
Find Your Layout Plugin on CodeCanyon Now!
The layout of your website and pages right can make or break your website. Getting it right means great customer experiences. Getting it wrong means content arranged on screen in a disorderly manner that leaves visitors confused.
These plugins just scratch the surface of page layout plugins available at CodeCanyon. So if none of them catch your fancy, there are plenty of other great options there to hold your interest.
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This post has been updated with contributions from Johnny Winter and Franc Lucas. Johnny is a staff writer with Envato Tuts+. Franc is a writer for Envato Tuts+ who enjoys exploring the world of SaaS.
