The builder
A WordPress page builder that draws the page you actually ship
You drag a block onto the page, set it in the side panel, and look at the result — not at a preview of it. Desktop, tablet and phone are three buttons, not three guesses. And the page you are rebuilding can stay online the whole time you work on it.
No shortcodes.
Ever.
91 blocks
- Text, heading, image, gallery, video, button, divider
- Grid, columns, groups, sections, accordion, tabs
- Form, newsletter, search, menu, languages, social
- Post list, product, pricing, quote, counters, map
- Custom fields, template parts, code snippets
In the window
- Save without touching the page visitors see
- Publish now, or at a time you set
- Two versions side by side, the difference in colour
- Desktop, tablet, phone — one click each
- Undo and redo as far back as you like
- The page as a tree: fold, drag, duplicate, rename
- Utility classes per block and per screen size
Missing on purpose
- No shortcodes left in your text if ambera ever goes
- No second editor your client has to learn
- No front-end framework loaded for visitors
- No subscription — buy once, updates for a year
- No lock-in: export a whole site as a demo and take it
Three screens
One window, three widths.
Every block can be set per screen size: a row of four becomes one column on a phone, a gap shrinks, a picture moves under the text. What you set for the desktop holds for the tablet until you change it there. And you see it immediately, because the builder renders the page with the same code the visitor gets — there is no separate preview mode that lies to you.
Draft
Rebuild a page while it stays online.
In WordPress, every change to a published page is live the second you hit save. Here the page has two states: the published one, which visitors see, and the draft, which is yours. Saving changes nothing out there — the toolbar says «Draft — not live». You publish with a button, now or on Monday at five. And if the draft turns out to be a bad idea, you throw it away and the live page was never touched.
Versions
Two states, the difference in colour.
Every save leaves a version behind, with a date and a name; ten of them are kept. Pick one and it appears next to the page as it is now — side by side, or one on top of the other. What was added is green, what is gone is red, what changed is orange, with a list of the differences block by block. One click restores it, and that restore is a version too. This is not a diff with angle brackets: it is the page as it was, next to the page as it is.
The tree
A long page, still readable.
Next to the page stands its structure: sections, grids, columns, blocks. Fold away what you are not working on, drag a section up, duplicate a column, give a section a name so your client finds it again next year. This is what keeps a forty-section landing page workable instead of a scroll hunt.
Questions
Can I work on a page that is already live?
Yes, and that is the part WordPress does not do. Saving stores a draft; the published page stays exactly as it is until you publish, either right away or at a time you set. You can look at the draft without publishing it, and discard it without the live page ever noticing.
Does the builder need a separate plugin?
No. The builder is part of ambera Theme Builder, including the free Light version. Pro brings all 91 blocks; Light brings the ones a normal site needs.
What happens to my pages if I remove ambera?
The layouts belong to ambera; the text stays with the page as content. There are no shortcodes to leave a mess of square brackets in another theme.
Can I keep using Gutenberg?
Yes. A page without an ambera layout is edited in the block editor as usual and rendered inside your templates. Plenty of people build the site here and write the blog there — in the block editor or the classic editor, chosen per post.
How fast are the pages?
The builder writes lean HTML and one stylesheet per page, with no front-end framework. Cache, WebP and AVIF and locally served fonts are part of the same plugin, so there is nothing else to install for speed.
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Built in Switzerland. Built for WordPress.