Brizy Pro Review
By Sean Ondes | Last updated: June 25, 2020
Brizy Pro is still a fairly new WordPress page builder with an absolutely gorgeous interface. With over 50,000 downloads, Brizy Pro is growing and with all of its recent improvements has huge potential to compete with the more popular page builders.
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Brizy Pro Review at a glance
Pros
- Elegant UI
- Well priced
- Integrated global popup builder
- Helpful features like copy/paste and import/export
- Full site editing. Make changes to the header and footer directly in the page editor.
Cons
- Limited selection of page elements in the pro version
- No live preview for some dynamic elements
- Leaves code behind when deactivated
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Brizy Pro compared to other page builders
Usability
Brizy’s UI is Clean and Uncluttered
The first thing that you see when you load the Brizy editing screen is a gorgeous blank canvas. Right away after loading the editing interface for Brizy I knew that I was in for something special. I wasn’t dissapointed. The UI options are simply laid out and beautiful. It’s just about the best looking interface in a WordPress page builder that I’ve seen!
The Brizy interface is simply beautiful. (I know I keep saying this but it really is!) Using Brizy is also a treat. Elements drag smoothly from the panel. Brizy brags about using the high performing React.js library for their UI. That was a good choice.
Activating an element’s settings option brings up a well laid out panel that’s easy to navigate. From the options panel, you can find options to adjust everything from entrance animations to colors, add custom CSS and element IDs and a whole lot more.
A super useful addition to the UI that Brizy adds is displaying a row’s padding when hovering over it. Little touches like this that help the user save time are highly appreciated.
I did come across a minor problem when I added a the blog post element. The live editor showed the posts but instead of the post’s featured image and content, there was only a placeholder. I started over and repeated these steps but still couldn’t see the featured images.
The posts were displayed normally on the preview for the page. They’re just not visible in the live editor. This isn’t glitchy behavior. I discovered an article on the Brizy site that indicated that this unfortunately is the planned approach.
Brizy Pro Features
Brizy’s Design Elements
Brizy Pro includes only a limited collection of elements such as text, icon, gallery, carousel, and form. This is one of the very few shortcomings of this page builder. However, on the plus side, the elements included are absolutely the most essential. This means anyone using Brizy Pro probably won’t suffer much by being restricted to this limited selection of elements. Documentation on their site explains that new elements will be added up until and beyond the official release of the Pro version. According to their documentation, Brizy Pro will be released sometime in 2019.
Brizy Pro Has Excellent Integrations
Connect Brizy to Your Favorite Services
Brizy Pro brings with it a lot of integrations to powerful marketing tools like Mailchimp, ConvertKit, HubSpot, Salesforce, and Zapier. Brizy also integrates well with WooCommerce and Yoast SEO. With Brizy Pro, you also get integrations with ACF, Toolset, Pods, and Metabox.
Brizy Fonts and Media
Enhance your Brizy built designs with Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts integration. Brizy also lets you easily embed YouTube and Vimeo video, audio from Soundcloud, and images from Unsplash.
Build Dynamic Pages in Brizy Pro
This is Brizy’s name for their full theme editing features. Brizy lets you easily take full control of your Post template, Archive, and 404 pages with Brizy Pro’s Dynamic Content feature. This is a really cool addition that makes Brizy Pro shine!
Brizy Pro also gives you the power to completely customize your site’s headers and footers. Coming soon on Brizy Pro’s roadmap will be adding the same control over WooCommerce and Search results pages. They lead the pack of other page builders by allowing editing of headers and footers from while editing any page. This feature saves a lot of clicking around between page and theme editing.
Brizy Pro + Custom Fields
If you use custom fields, Brizy Pro has you covered. Brizy Pro has built-in full integration with Advanced Custom Fields, Toolset, Pods, and Meta Box.
Layouts and Templates
Brizy Pro’s Layouts Are Gorgeous
Brizy Pro really shines when it comes to the included pages and sections (called blocks in Brizy) layouts! They include 500+ full-page layouts, page sections, and pop-ups.
Brizy Pro has really made improvements with their included layouts. They are very well designed, modern looking, and, most importantly, they look really, really nice. Every block section is also available in both a light and dark version. Brizy organizes their pre-built full page layouts into packs and includes 26 of them with the Pro version. Each pack is basically an entire website. Some of the layout packs include between 5 and 10 fully designed pages. Nice!
Headers and Footers
Brizy Pro also has pre-built header and footer blocks that can be added to any section of the layout. Unlike theme builders (like the one included with Elementor and the Beaver Themer add on for Beaver Builder) where a customized header and footer controls are visible on the entire site, the Brizy header and footer blocks only affect the page where they’re placed.
While this feature doesn’t turn Brizy into a full fledged theme builder, this is a great feature for building a landing page or micro-site.
Theme Compatibility
Brizy Pro will work well with just about any theme that is modern, well coded. To get the most out of Brizy Pro, any theme you use should include a full-page layout. Unlike some other page builders, Brizy Pro includes its own blank page template. Be aware though that the Brizy template doesn’t display the header or footer sections. That makes it great for distraction-free landing pages but not a regular page.
Recommended Themes for Brizy Pro
- Astra
Installation and Removal
Installing Brizy Pro
Brizy Pro is a premium add on for the free Brizy plugin so you’ll need both installed on your WordPress site. After purchasing the pro add on, the download link and license can be found in your account on brizy.io. For anyone familiar with WordPress, installing the Brizy and Brizy Pro plugins is straightfoward.
Removing Brizy Pro and Lock-In
Brizy Pro isn’t exactly shortcode based but it does use something similar. After deactivating, there is a lot of leftover code. If you plan to edit that content or switch to another page builder then you’ll need to manually remove it all first.
Performance and Updates
Brizy Pro Loading Speed
The Brizy Pro live editing interface loads very quickly. During my testing, I very seldomly experienced any slowness or lag with the live preview. On the front end, a Brizy Pro built page loads fast!
Update Frequency
The Brizy team has been busy. According to Brizy Pro’s changelog, they’ve been releasing updates at least every two weeks and sometimes as often as every few days. They’ve already resolved a few of the problems I’ve written about in older versions of this review. Hopefully, they’ll soon address some if not all of the shortcomings that I found.
If you want to keep tabs on Brizy’s upcoming features and fixes, Brizy has a public Trello board. There you can see their roadmap for future development.
Customer Support and Documentation
Brizy has recently released a dedicated support system for customers. This is a big improvement compared to sending customers to a Facebook group or their GitHub repository.
A downside of Brizy’s new support system is that even if you’re logged in you won’t be able to see the other user’s support requests. In my years of trying to figure out one computer trouble or another, I’ve solved most of my own problems by reading the support requests and solutions written by others.
I predict that Brizy may get tired of answering the same questions over and over and just switch to an open support forum. Personally, I also put more trust in a company that does business out in the open. Nailed it! Brizy now has an open forum where you can search for your problem and see if someone else has figured out a solution.
Brizy’s Growing Documentation
Brizy has been building out its documentation library over the past months. They offer a few dozen basic articles and how-tos. If you’re just getting started with Brizy or are entirely new to WordPress page builders, you’ll probably find some help there. The documentation library is growing but you still won’t find any advanced tutorials or video walkthroughs like those available for Elementor or Beaver Builder. Brizy now sprinkles videos throughout their support documentation!
Cost
Brizy is currently free for downloading from their website and the WordPress plugin repository.
Brizy Pro is out of beta release and all licenses are available. All Brizy licenses come with complimentary access to Brizy Cloud.
- $49 3 sites license with 1 year of support and plugin updates
- $99 Unlimited sites license with 1 year of support and plugin updates
- $299 Ultimate Use license for unlimited sites with lifetime support and plugin updates. They’re only offering 1000 of these lifetime licenses. I can’t think of another page builder with this good of a plan! This deal shouldn’t be passed up.
Conclusion
Brizy Pro is a very nice looking page builder with enormous potential. Even though there are some really nice aspects to Brizy Pro, I have to differ from a few of the most popular reviews that I’ve read. I’ve seen a few reviews that range from 4.5 to 4.9. This includes an aggregate rating of 4.9 on Product Hunt!
I can’t see how anyone could give an honest 4.9 out of 5 for a page builder that leaves behind a code mess when deactivated and includes such a small number of page elements in its pro version. These two problem areas make a nearly perfect rating completely out of the question.
The Brizy Pro team definitely has a couple of bugs to work out. It’s no longer acceptable to leave behind code when deactivating a page builder – not in an era of Elementor and Beaver Builder.
It will be exciting to see how Brizy Pro develops. None of these issues should stop you from trying out at least the free version of this page builder. Considering how much the Brizy team has accomplished in the last year, the Ultimate Use license is an amazing deal!
I’ll definitely be keeping on eye on Brizy Pro. You should too.
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About Me
Sean Ondes
My name is Sean. I've been building websites for more than 15 years. For the last 8 years, I've been working almost exclusively with WordPress and Shopify.
I've read all the blog posts that review the "Best WordPress Page Builders" or the "Top 5 WordPress Page Builders". They can be helpful but after I finished all that reading, I still didn't know which one to choose.
The only thing left to do was try them all. I've spent my own money and hundreds of hours testing every WordPress page builder that I can get my hands on. I'm putting all this together because I personally have needed a resource exactly like this for a long time!
I' don't favor any single page builder over another. I'm not really even promoting WordPress. This guide is for people who have already decided that WordPress is the right fit for them and need the flexibility of using a page builder.