What is Builderius, and how do I start now?
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Builderius is a visual development environment for WordPress. This means you build by clicking, but underneath there is no abstraction you see in page builders. The structure you see in the builder is the real HTML, the styles are real CSS, and the data comes through a real query layer. So it looks like a builder and feels like development.
That also means there is more than one way in. You can start with the visual interface, build things manually, start with the AI, open the code editor and tweak every pixel (as if anyone used pixels anymore). This is a short tour of the workflow, with a video for each step. Watch the ones that match where you are, continue with a hands on experience.
And give us feedback. Weβre listening.
1. Start with the interface
Before anything else, see how the builder is laid out. The navigator holds three tabs: the element tree, the selectors, and the variables. The settings panel is where you set markup, styles, and bind data. Releases are where your work is kept safe. None of it is hidden, so the first hour is mostly learning where things live.
You do not start from a blank page unless you want to. On setup you choose a starting point: standard settings with the framework and demo templates, minimal to bring your own, or a ready-made starter site to take apart and learn from.
2. Build with AI
The fastest way to get a the scaffolding for the page is to ask Sense AI for it. It reads the live project, so it knows what is selected, which CSS classes already exist, and how your data is structured. It builds with your system, not around it. When it finishes, you are looking at ordinary Builderius elements you can continue editing by hand.
3. Or build it by hand
If you would rather build it yourself, you can do all of it by hand. The fastest manual start is to use the Design Library: drop in a ready-made wireframes and adjust it. Or build the structure from scratch and lay it out with real Flexbox and Grid. Either way you style visually with controls that are real CSS underneath, and you can open the code editor at any point.
4. Bring in dynamic data
WordPress data comes in through GraphQL. You write drop a snippet, tweak it, bind the result to an element, and the HTML is filled with it. No limiting yet complicated settings panel, no PHP to extend what UI allows. The editor previews the data as you go, so you see what you are binding before you bind it to your elements structure.
5. Ship it
When the website is ready, you ship through releases. All the work so far is in a development branch, test, and push to production only when you mean to. If something breaks, you roll back. From there the same project can stay a live WordPress site, move to another install, or export as a static site.
Where to go from here?
Try the demo and follow the stage that fits the work in front of you. The interface first if you like to look around, the AI first if you want a result on the page fast.
To go deeper on any stage, explore the documentation: https://docs.builderius.io as well as our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Builderius/playlists
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