Your First Page With WPBakery Page Builder: A Beginner's Guide to Building It Yourself
You have just had WPBakery Page Builder activated on your WordPress site, you open a page, and you see a blank canvas with rows, columns, and elements staring back at you. Where do you even start? This guide builds your first real page with you, step by step — a simple business homepage — so that by the end you understand rows, columns, elements, templates, and responsive checks well enough to build the next page on your own.
No experience needed. If you can use Word, you can do this.
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First, a Mental Model: Rows, Columns, Elements
Everything in WPBakery is built from three layers, and once you see them, the whole builder clicks into place.
A row is a horizontal strip of the page — a full-width band that holds your content. Your page is a stack of rows: a hero row at the top, a services row below it, a testimonial row, a footer call-to-action row.
A column divides a row into vertical slices. A row might have one column (a full-width heading), two columns (text on the left, image on the right), or three columns (three service boxes side by side).
An element is the actual content inside a column: a heading, a paragraph, an image, a button, a video, a separator. WPBakery ships with 50+ content elements, so most things you want on a page already exist as an element — you just drop it in and fill in its settings.
Think of it like building with bricks: rows are the floors, columns are the rooms, elements are the furniture. You will never need a more complicated model than that.
Step 1: Open the Editor and Choose Your View
Create a new page in WordPress, give it a title, and open the WPBakery editor. You will see two editing options: the back-end editor, which shows your page as a structured outline of rows and columns, and the front-end editor, which lets you click and edit directly on the page as visitors will see it.
For your first page, start in the back-end editor. The structure is clearer there, and you can see exactly what you are building. You can switch to the front-end editor later to fine-tune text and spacing visually. Both editors change the same page, so nothing is lost by switching between them.
Step 2: Add Your First Row and a Hero Heading
Click "Add Row." A row appears, and you are asked how many columns it should have. For a hero section — the big headline at the top of the page — choose one column, full width.
Inside that column, click "Add Element" and choose the Text Block or a heading element. Type your headline — something plain and honest, like the name of your business and what it does. Then add a second text element underneath with one or two sentences explaining it. Finally, add a Button element and link it to your contact or services page.
That is your hero section done. It took three elements in one column in one row. Before moving on, click the row's settings and give it a background — a colour, or an image with a parallax effect if you want something more striking. WPBakery supports parallax and video backgrounds on rows, but for a first page, a simple colour or image background is enough.
Step 3: Build a Three-Column Services Section
Now add a second row, this time with three columns. In each column, add the same combination: an image or icon element at the top, a heading, and a short text block describing one service.
Here is where a beginner habit pays off: build the first column properly, then use Element Presets to save its styling. A preset is a saved style for an element — set the heading size, colour, and spacing once, save it as a preset, and apply it to the headings in the other two columns with one click. Your three service boxes will look consistent without you having to remember the settings each time. This is also the fastest way to keep a whole site looking professional: define your presets early, reuse them everywhere.
Add a heading row above the three columns if you like — a row with one column holding a heading like "Our Services" and a short line of text beneath it. Small touches like that turn a pile of boxes into a designed page.
Step 4: Try a Template Instead of Building From Scratch
You do not have to build every page by hand. WPBakery includes 100+ predefined templates, and its Template Manager lets you browse and insert them. Try it now: on a test page, insert a template and look at how it is put together — the rows, the column layouts, the elements it uses. Templates are a learning tool as much as a shortcut. Seeing how a professional template is structured teaches you faster than any tutorial.
When you find a template close to what you need for a real page, insert it, then replace its text and images with your own. That is a legitimate workflow used by professional developers every day — nobody rebuilds a contact section from scratch when a good one exists.
Step 5: Save Your Layout as a Reusable Template
Once your homepage looks right, save it. In the Template Manager, you can save any page — or any section of a page — as your own template. Next time you build a similar page, insert your saved template instead of starting blank. If you build sites for clients, this is how you get faster with every project: your first site teaches you the layout, and every site after it reuses what worked.
Step 6: Check Your Page on Mobile and Tablet
This step is the one beginners skip, and it is the one visitors notice most. WPBakery supports responsive design, but you still have to check it. Use the responsive preview in the editor, or simply open the page on your phone.
What to look for: text that overflows its column, images that are too large, buttons that are hard to tap, and three-column sections that look cramped. WPBakery lets you adjust column behaviour per device — for example, making three columns stack vertically on mobile instead of squeezing side by side. If something looks wrong on your phone, fix it in the column or row settings before publishing.
Step 7: Publish, Then Keep Learning
Publish the page and view it as a visitor would. Then keep going: experiment with the Grid Builder to create a blog or portfolio listing, try the Skin Builder to restyle an element to match your brand, and explore the 250+ addons when you need a feature the core elements do not cover. If you have not got the plugin yet, you can start with the WPBakery Page Builder yearly license and follow this guide as you build. WPBakery also works with ACF, WPML, TranslatePress, Contact Form 7, and WooCommerce, so as your site grows, the builder grows with it.
One caution for beginners: do not install twenty addons on day one. Add them when you have a specific need, one at a time, and check the page still works after each one.
Getting WPBakery in Bangladesh
WP Theme Bazar offers WPBakery Page Builder as a yearly seller-assisted activation for ৳1,000 per year (regular ৳1,500) for one site. price may change — see the product page for the current price. The same store also sells a one-time WPBakery listing for ৳2,000 — the yearly option costs less if you only need it for a year or two, while the one-time option wins over a longer period. Activation is seller-assisted: the WP Theme Bazar team activates the original license directly on your site, and the private license key is never shared with you. For reference, the official Regular license is $64–$69 one-time (about ৳7,700–৳8,300) with lifetime updates. There is no official free version, so the yearly listing is the lowest-cost way to start.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to know code to use WPBakery? No. Rows, columns, and elements cover most pages entirely. Custom CSS is available on rows and elements if you ever want finer control, but it is optional.
What is the difference between the front-end and back-end editors? The back-end editor shows your page as a structured outline of rows and columns — best for building. The front-end editor lets you click and edit content directly on the page as visitors see it — best for fine-tuning. Both edit the same page.
How do I reuse a section on another page? Save it as a template in the Template Manager, then insert that template on the new page. You can save whole pages or single sections.
Will my WPBakery page look right on mobile? It will if you check it. Use the responsive preview, and adjust column stacking per device where needed. Always test on a real phone before calling a page finished.
Is WPBakery the same as Visual Composer? WPBakery was formerly called Visual Composer Page Builder (renamed October 2017). Visual Composer Website Builder is a separate React-based product with no migration path from WPBakery.
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