Elementor Review

Elementor is a WordPress website builder. And a robust one at that.

Constantly improving itself—whether for the features offered or the inclusion of professional looking templates even at their free level (though the better ones are obviously behind the paywall) again, I can not recommend this plugin more. It is quite honestly the first thing I install on any project.

That drag-and-drop editor…mm. Nice. No overthinking. Move what you want. Place where you want. Delete what you want without worrying if entire elements that you wanted to keep will go along for the ride into oblivion.

Guess what’s also included?

A way to see how your website is going to look responsively (y’know, across other devices, namely mobile). And you can edit while viewing this way, making sure your tailored changes show properly from desktops, to tablets, to cellphones.

I’ve found that I still need the assurance of developer tools and the devices themselves, just to be 99% (because nothing is ever 100 where the internet is concerned), but for the most part it’s pretty good.

What else?

The Elementor Landing Page builder. With all the widgets from countdown timers to form creation, you can definitely create professional looking websites for just about anything.

Oh! And let me not forget the ability to create your own popups. Although, as someone who maintains a multitude of popup blockers (because to hell with annoying adverts) I can admit that from a marketing perspective I do see the point of having a way to grab the visitor’s attention. And it’s been my experience that this WordPress plugin offers you a lot of ways to customize just how obnoxious you want to be with your popups. From frequency, to which pages show the advertisement, to even how easy it is to allow viewers to close your ads, variety is here.

Please don’t abuse this power though.

Moving on…

Elementor also integrates well with a lot of other well known marketing tools, plugins and social media platforms.