Elementor: A Fantastic Editor for Designing Beautiful WordPress Pages and Posts

This afternoon, I spent a few hours building my first client site using Elementor. If you’re in the WordPress industry, you’ve probably already heard the buzz about Elementor—they’ve just hit 2 million installations!

For the last couple of years, I’ve been using Avada for all of my clients. The theme is elegantly constructed, utilizing a combination of theme and plugin to maintain formatting capabilities. It’s well-supported and has some fantastic elements that previously required development or purchases.

Elementor is different because it’s only a plugin and can seamlessly work with virtually any theme. On the site I built for this client today, I used the Elementor Hello Theme, a base theme that the Elementor team recommended.

I was able to build a fully responsive site with sticky menus, footer regions, customized landing pages, and form integration right out of the box. It did take a little bit of getting used to Elementor’s hierarchy, but once I understood the templating, section capability, and elements, I was able to drag and drop the entire site within a few minutes. It saved me days of time, and I didn’t have to edit a single line of code or CSS!

WordPress Popup Publishing Rules and Designs

It’s not often a plugin comes with such incredible capabilities. Still, with Elementor, you can set conditions, triggers, and advanced rules for how you want popups to publish… all in an easy interface:

The designer is quite phenomenal, and they even provide some off-the-shelf examples for you to design!

In Addition to the Popup Functionality, Marketing Features Include

Limitations of Elementor

It’s not a perfect plugin, though. I’ve run into a few limitations that you should understand:

Integrations Include

If you’ve ever programmed integrations in WordPress, you know how difficult it can be. Well, Elementor has pre-developed integrations with Intuit Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, ConvertKit, Campaign Monitor, HubSpot, Zapier, donReach, Drip, GetResponse, Adobe Fonts, reCAPTCHA, Facebook SDK, MailerLite, Slack, and Discord!

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Extending Elementor With More Features!

Ultimate Addons is a growing library of genuinely creative and unique Elementor widgets that open a whole new range of design possibilities for you. This incredible package includes:

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Whether you’re a design professional or a newcomer, you’ll speed up your workflow and achieve exceptional designs with complete ease.

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