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Elementor

Score9.1 out of 10

121 Reviews and Ratings

What is Elementor?

Elementor is a Wordpress page builder and creative toolkit featuring a drag and drop live editor, 100+ widgets, and tools to landing pages and popups.

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Elementor Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Elementor has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 121 ratings of Elementor's features
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Top Performing Features

  • WYSIWYG editor

    What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Availability / breadth of extensions

    There is a broad library of extensions, plug-ins, modules or add-ons that allow users to easily customize their websites without building custom code.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Admin section

    The admin page is easy to navigate and use.

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Form generator

    Users can build website forms for visitors to fill out.

    Category average: 7

  • SEO support

    The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.

    Category average: 7.6

  • API

    An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.

    Category average: 7.9

Who Buys & Uses Elementor

Elementor Reviews

What users are saying about Elementor.
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Pros

  • Intuitive user interface and drag-and-drop editing
  • Streamlined design process with pre-built templates
  • Capability for creating mobile-responsive designs

Cons

  • Software updates occasionally introduce site-breaking issues
  • Editor performance and speed require optimization
  • Limited built-in widgets for complex page designs

Excellent front end WordPress Builder

Incentivized
David VictorineView profile
Lead Developer at Nozak Consulting (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Elementor on a weekly basis to build WordPress websites for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from local mom and pop service shops up to multi-location and franchise websites. I also educate business owners and their teams on how to use Elementor and make their own updates to their websites when they need to. Elementor provides an easy UI for building a world-class website with responsive designs.

Pros

  • Mobile friendly layout and responsive designs
  • Image optimization
  • dynamic content
  • SEO friendly web builder

Cons

  • reducing DOM size and increasing page speed times
  • additional SEO features would be great
  • better global settings and education around those features

Return on Investment

  • Positive: allowed us to expand our team and have multiple people work on website builds.
  • Allowed us to educate clients and help them take over their own websites.
  • Negative - it's hard to prevent people from uploading large image files.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Divi

Other Software Used

WPForms, Rank Math, WordPress

Elementor the solid choice

Incentivized
Michał KuczekView profile
Programmer in Engineering at SLC (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Elementor to design and build websites for over 200 clients. It is the best wordpress builder we found while testing many others during the past 6 years. It is easy to use for new wordpress developers. It significantly speeds up the design process, for many smaller projects designing in software like Figma is even non necessary, you can start directly in Elementor.

Pros

  • Website building using a drag and drop editor
  • Editing the predefined styles using the custom css panel
  • Designing simple websites directly in the builder

Cons

  • More streamlined organization of settings in the editor
  • Better code completion in the custom css panel
  • Speedier editor loading and switching between pages

Return on Investment

  • It has allowed us to offer profitable web services to smaller clients
  • It has allowed us to create cheaper websites
  • Elementor is a very fun way to get people into web design who are newbies

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Divi, Wix, Squarespace and Webflow

Other Software Used

Webflow, Next.js, Firebase, Supabase, Cloudflare

Elementor review.

Incentivized
Jonathan VenablesView profile
Garden Designer at Jon Norman Garden Design (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WordPress is a great CMS, but it has a terrible default page design feature. Elementor is a plugin that allows you to create WYSIWYG web page designs using a set of pre-created, customizable widgets to design any web layout you need.

Pros

  • Page Layout.
  • Page Design.
  • Web page templates.
  • Pop-ups.
  • Forms
  • Image galleries.

Cons

  • Limit to the number of widgets available.

Return on Investment

  • Ease of use.
  • Creates great websites.
  • Intuitive to learn.

Usability

Other Software Used

Rank Math, NitroPack

Best Tool for Website Design and Creation.

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Marketing (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our SaaS website is developed using Elementor. As the head of demand generation, my role was to ensure the site is SEO-compliant and integrates well with third-party tools for capturing leads and Intent. Elementor does a fantastic job as it is first easy to use, helps maintain the website, and provides an easy interface for adding and editing existing webpages.

Pros

  • Create a website.
  • SEO Compliant.
  • Third Party Integration.
  • Ease of Use.
  • Drag and drop.

Cons

  • Website development using AI can be Improved.
  • Sometime the layouts can get misaligned for minor edits.
  • The images are sometimes hard to fit into the container.
  • More online tutorials can be created on the company page.

Return on Investment

  • Website can scale automatically to fit user screen size.
  • The website can be up and running within minutes.
  • Using elementor submissions lead capture can be blissful.
  • Elementor Pro features can make your website impressive.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Divi, Wix and Webflow

Other Software Used

Adobe Express, Factors.AI, WordPress, Upwork, Perplexity, Lusha

Mandatory Wordpress Toolset

Incentivized
Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Elementor makes Website edits easy and easily beeing handed over to collegues. Also beeing able to use templates, save exisiting content, duplicate, and rework is the most important feature. Global elements and containers are by far the best part and why we do not switch away.

Pros

  • global styling elements
  • easyiness

Cons

  • complexity due to too many features
  • speed and codebase size

Return on Investment

  • none that we measured actively

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Heyflow, Webflow and Wix

Other Software Used

n8n, Slack, Zapier