--- title: Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An... description: Kirki is a WordPress visual page builder featuring an infinite freeform canvas, similar to Figma or Webflow. It differentiates itself from traditional builders... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/meet-kirki-wordpress-s-first-visual-builder-with-an-infinite-canvas-smashing-magazine-mdwwfnt0k twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas — Smashing Magazine | daily.dev og:description: Kirki is a WordPress visual page builder featuring an infinite freeform canvas, similar to Figma or Webflow. It differentiates itself from traditional builders... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/meet-kirki-wordpress-s-first-visual-builder-with-an-infinite-canvas-smashing-magazine-mdwwfnt0k og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mdWwfNt0K.png og:image:alt: Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas — Smashing Magazine og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas — Smashing Magazine **[Smashing Magazine](https://daily.dev/sources/smashing)** · 13 min read · 3 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Kirki is a WordPress visual page builder featuring an infinite freeform canvas, similar to Figma or Webflow. It differentiates itself from traditional builders like Elementor by generating cleaner code with fewer DOM elements, resulting in better Lighthouse scores. Key features include concurrent multi-device responsive editing, Figma-to-WordPress import, a built-in dynamic content manager (replacing ACF), class-based styling with CSS variables, a visual interaction/animation builder, real-time multi-user co-editing, and a built-in page audit tool. Pricing starts at $59/year for one site or $499 lifetime. A free version with substantial features is available on WordPress.org. The article is a sponsored review comparing Kirki favorably against Elementor across performance, features, pricing, and ease of use. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@dimkiriakos** · 2 upvotes > Too late for more page builders after Full site editing natively supported from WordPress without any priceing plan. there is no reason to use other than gutenberg as page builder if you really need a page builder and not to build your custom and dedicated layout with classic themming with the less bloating code than ever. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [8 Best WordPress Plugins 2026: Animation, Data UI & Builder](https://daily.dev/posts/8-best-wordpress-plugins-2026-animation-data-ui-builder-31c3u7ojm) · Codrops · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Discovering Element Pack PRO: The Complete Elementor Toolkit for WordPress](https://daily.dev/posts/discovering-element-pack-pro-the-complete-elementor-toolkit-for-wordpress-nd6e8nquz) · WP Mayor · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Discover Jumplinks Flow: Visual Feedback Your AI Agent Can Act On](https://daily.dev/posts/discover-jumplinks-flow-visual-feedback-your-ai-agent-can-act-on-j7cjd08u8) · WP Mayor · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#wordpress](https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress), [#nocode](https://daily.dev/tags/nocode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/meet-kirki-wordpress-s-first-visual-builder-with-an-infinite-canvas-smashing-magazine-mdwwfnt0k) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas — Smashing Magazine","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/meet-kirki-wordpress-s-first-visual-builder-with-an-infinite-canvas-smashing-magazine-mdwwfnt0k","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/meet-kirki-wordpress-s-first-visual-builder-with-an-infinite-canvas-smashing-magazine-mdwwfnt0k"},"datePublished":"2026-07-07T12:09:54.512Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:48:58.905Z","description":"Kirki is a WordPress visual page builder featuring an infinite freeform canvas, similar to Figma or Webflow. 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