Building a car dealer website with beaverbuilder and CarDealerPress

By Auto Matic Marketing | March 1, 2017

Ever since we started using WordPress for car dealer websites, I have been on a mission to find the “perfect” website theme.

My criteria:

Must be well built and stable
Simple to use – so even a car dealer can use it 🙂
Work seamlessly with the CarDealerPress plugin
Play nicely with other plugins common for car dealers
Build a clean site without the need for a graphic designer

Going back to 2008, this list seemed pretty achievable. Unfortunately after testing out A LOT of themes, there was always something that didn’t work as desired. We ended up using Genesis from Studiopress as a framework and Dynamik from Cobalt Apps as a child theme/builder. This is still a great combination and checked all the boxes except for one… simple to use. On a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the hardest to use, this combination was about a 5. For WordPress power users it is great, but it needs to be a 1 or a 2 for car dealers.

Enter beaverbuilder

I have been hearing a buzz in the WordPress world for some time regarding beaverbuilder. The thing is, changing the website theme you use is a big deal. New training videos, the need to get everyone up to speed, etc., etc.

That said, I started playing with a copy of beaverbuilder and quickly fell in love with it. It checks all the boxes so we have started the migration. We are updating the default theme on the Auto-Matic-Marketing Dealer Network, updating our own sites, and changing out the tutorials.

The following 5 videos go through building a car dealer website home page integrated with the CarDealerPress plugin.

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