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Page Builder Sandwich: Foundation

What Page Builder Sandwich does for foundation, and which of it is free.

What it does

  • Pages saved as standard WordPress blocks — Everything you build is stored as normal blocks. SEO plugins read it, other tools can edit it, and if the plugin is ever switched off the page still shows its content. No shortcodes left behind.
  • Sandwich Studio: a full-screen visual editor — A drag-and-drop canvas that shows the real page with your real theme, plus a layers panel, undo history and keyboard shortcuts. It edits the same blocks, so you can switch to the normal WordPress editor at any time.
  • Works inside the normal block editor too — All our blocks and style controls also work in the standard WordPress editor, for people who prefer it.
  • Automatic upgrade of old Page Builder Sandwich pages — Pages built with the old plugin (pbs-row/pbs-col HTML, old buttons, old table columns) are converted to the new blocks on first open, with a backup kept.
  • Latest WordPress and PHP, tested every release — Built for WordPress 6.8+ (tested up to the latest release) and PHP 8.2–8.5, with an automated test matrix run on every release (including the WordPress nightly build) so a new WordPress version never breaks customer sites.
  • Security by design — Every save and action is checked for the right user permission and a valid request token; all input is cleaned and all output escaped. Fixes every problem that got the old plugin closed.
  • Translated into 58 languages, right-to-left ready — The whole interface ships in all 58 of our languages, with full Arabic/Hebrew right-to-left layout, like our other plugins.
  • Import from Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder and WPBakery (Pro) — A migration tool that converts pages from the big builders into our blocks, so people can switch to us without rebuilding their sites. Headline selling point.

Free or Pro

A feature marked (Pro) needs a Pro licence; (Agency plan) needs the Agency plan. Everything else is in the free edition.

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