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Elementor Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.1 out of 10
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9.1 out of 10

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Recommendations

Users recommend using the free version of Elementor for multiple functionalities and upgrading to Elementor Pro for more advanced features. They suggest using Elementor with a cache application and a hosting provider like Knownhost and LiteSpeed Cache for optimal performance. Users also recommend using lightweight and compatible WordPress themes with Elementor. They highly recommend Elementor for beginners in website designing and emphasize its user-friendly interface. Additionally, they suggest joining the Elementor community for help and support.

Users highly recommend Elementor for creating professional websites, mentioning its usefulness for B2B platforms. They suggest trying the free version before upgrading and consider it one of the best website building software options for WordPress. Users advise learning a bit about web design to get the most out of Elementor. They mention that Elementor has pre-designed templates that are easy to modify, saving development time.

Elementor is recommended by users for webpage designing, suitable for both beginners and professionals. Its user-friendly nature and useful functionalities make it a preferred choice. Users suggest it for WordPress users who need a landing builder without much coding knowledge, and they also recommend joining the Elementor Facebook Group for quick feedback and suggestions.

Users highly recommend Elementor for website building, highlighting its speed and accuracy. They suggest exploring the platform thoroughly and giving oneself time to learn all the available features, as it is easy to use once familiarized. Upgrading to the paid version provides access to pre-designed templates and extra elements.

For WordPress developers, users recommend trying Elementor as it is considered the best way to create web pages. They also mention that learning code is important when using this tool.

Reviews

41 Reviews

Best Tool for Website Design and Creation.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Wanted to create a website quickly and get it running within a week's time. The step-by-step guide on installing Elementor and creating the basic webpage was easy and time-efficient. Some of the advanced features can be time-consuming, but they are definitely worth it once you start creating professional sites. It fits in from basic to advanced sites; I don't think there could be any scenarios where it can be inappropriate.

Vetted Review
Elementor
5 years of experience

Mandatory Wordpress Toolset

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Global elements and beeing able to reuse them anywhere are by far the best part.

Vetted Review
Elementor
5 years of experience

Excellent front end WordPress Builder

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Elementor is well suited for a lot of different website types, from basic static sites, to sites with dynamic content. E-Commerce is where it starts to get tricky, and can sometimes struggle with robust site search functionality. If you're building a very large site, you may want to consider a more stream-lined and light weight solution.

Elementor the solid choice

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Websites that mainly host content, need to be edited often and do not require very custom functionality. For clients who want a very stable system and have a bigger budget, custom theme development is still a better choice, but the gap is closing and Elementor seems to be going in the right direction.

Elementor review.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Elementor is well-suited to help you create visually appealing websites easily. If there's a limitation, many parameters can be applied to a page component, which can be tedious to set up correctly.

A great web builder for WordPress at a great price

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Elementor as a web builder for full websites and landing pages, both for my own businesses and for client businesses. It originally replaced our existing process of creating custom WordPress themes or tailoring purchased themes to suit our needs. Now we build websites/pages mostly from scratch using Elementor. It's used across 50-100 websites, some large, some single pages. We make use of more advanced features such as dynamic data through custom fields and loops.

Pros

  • Theme builder (header, footer, site parts)
  • Forms, with options for what to do with form submissions after they've been submitted (email, collect , push to EMS)
  • Easy to use widgets for things that would otherwise need coding manually (sliders, carousels, flip boxes etc.)
  • Pre-built templates
  • Dynamic conditions for content display

Cons

  • Occasional plugin conflicts
  • Occasional differences in appearance between the editor and live page.
  • Flexbox building has a deeper learning curve than the previous sections/columns builder. In-editor guidance would be helpful here.
  • Some options/widgets available in other builders aren't in Elementor, which means additional plugins are sometimes needed.

Likelihood to Recommend

Honestly I think it's suitable for most use cases when building web pages/sites - even for more complex sites with dynamic data. I've built sites with several custom post types and advanced loop queries with no significant issues. There might be a steep learning curve if you're completely new to it however - I don't think the flexbox building is that intuitive, even as an experienced web designer.

Easy To Use, Mobile-Responsive Website Builder and A Wordpress Buddy!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We had launched an entire 80 page blog using studiopress and a combination of another 12 plugins. However, we had no internal competencies in using the associated advanced version of genesis blocks. The initial template we had chosen was more aligned with genesis blocks. However, for phase 1 launch, most the requirements had been met without genesiss blocks - until - a specific requirement came in: Many of the product pages needed a tabular format and the associated plugins for tabular display were not rendering as desired. This stalled the entire project and we sought technical consultations and Elementor came to rescue. The front end is very intuitive , learning curves much less complex and the output is completely mobile responsive!

Pros

  • Easy to use front end and thus reduced learning curves
  • Does not require very design competencies for minor operations/info. updates
  • Definitely mobile responsive and friendly
  • Integrates very well with wordpress including studiopress (Genesis wordpress)

Cons

  • Could definitely use an AI bot for ad-hoc customer queries
  • Very limited Wdgets available in free version - If you have complex pages, go pro
  • Ensure robust internet speed (50 MBPS bare minimum) to be able to operate it. Below 8 GB RAM is not advised

Likelihood to Recommend

The user interface is so intuitive that a devoted fresher with prior web design training and creative, right brain skills could easily come up to speed and deploy long form sales pages and similar complex webpages. However, it is not recommended for someone who has no web design creativity/inclination and the manager will be better off (A) delegating the initial design to an expert and (B) training internal staff on tactical updates. The tool is quite powerful, overall

Vetted Review
Elementor
1 year of experience

Great tool for building websites

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

client website builds

Pros

  • easy to use interface
  • easy licence management
  • good options for design and layout

Cons

  • breaks a lot after updates
  • the new flex grid is hard to use

Likelihood to Recommend

great system, easy to use and manage

Vetted Review
Elementor
8 years of experience

Elementor is a great web editing platform to use for small businesses!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a bulk food store and sell many of our items online. We use Elementor to edit our home page, hours/contact page, sales page, etc. It is a lot easier to edit using Elementor since it provides a drag and drop style of editing versus the more complicated alernative of coding.

Pros

  • Utilizes a Drag and Drop style of editing
  • Keeps things mobile and tablet friendly
  • Formats things nicely and keeps things uniform
  • Gives lots of options for adding text, images, buttons, html coding, etc.

Cons

  • It can be hard to remember to switch to mobile view to make sure it computes well on cell phones and tablets.
  • The updates sometimes can mess with the theme and site, and requires some editing to get it back to the correct format.
  • There is an Elementor Pro version that gives more options, but it does cost a yearly fee, which can add up over time.

Likelihood to Recommend

I feel like Elementor is a really great option for the web editor that isn't as familiar with coding and wants a more simple way to edit the site. It gives you all of the things you need to build a really complex site with without making it feel overwhelming and complex on the back end.

It may be less apporpriate for a very large business or a website that requires more specific edits and coding, but for most scenarios and small businesses, I think it is perfect! We are very happy with it!

Yep, I love Elementor

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Elementor as the theme design layer of Wordpress websites that we build for ourselves and clients. We have chosen to use it because it has professional-level options for us as designers and developers, but it is simple enough for us to be able to hand over to the client to make changes if and when they want to. It is easy to use, very visual, and gives access to the settings that proper designers want to use.

Pros

  • Visual design for Wordpress themes
  • Easy to drag-and-drop content elements
  • Comes with good pre-made themes
  • Access to advanced settings for front-end devs

Cons

  • Some specific features like slideshows, if you want a very customised experience it has to be manually created
  • Some 3rd-party themes that are built on Elementor lose compatibility after updates if they're not well made
  • It requires an extra layer of support because it's not a core part of Wordpress

Likelihood to Recommend

Use it when you're designing and building websites when you want beautiful visuals and easy customisation. It has professional-level options for us as designers and developers, but it is simple enough for us to be able to hand over to the client to make changes if and when they want to. It is easy to use, very visual, and gives access to the settings that proper designers want to use.