A website builder worth trying out
August 19, 2019
A website builder worth trying out
Overall Satisfaction with Elementor
Elementor is a Wordpress page builder that allows me to create attractive, interactive and creative web pages on our WordPress website. As the website designer, I was looking for a cost-effective plugin that helped me to create various types of landing pages and even blog posts. I had been using the free version for 6 months and wanted more flexibility and power in customizing the pages to suit my visual branding so I invested in the pro plan.
- You can create professional and creative web pages and it works with all the WordPress themes I've used.
- Free plan with some useful features to get started with.
- Easy to set up and get started with and if you get stuck provides useful video tutorials.
- Has a great Facebook community that provides tips, advice, and support.
- What Elementor could really improve on is being more flexible with the plan that only allows you to use on one website. I was moving my website and when I tried to upload my paid plugin to the new website as the old one was deleted it didn't allow me and stated I had to purchase a new pro plan. I was so frustrated as I still had 5 months left on the old plan. So, more flexibility and understanding of plans is needed.
- Needs to improve the number of glitches and Elementor not being available as that can be very frustrating when you plan to be making edits on your web pages.
- Better integration with other plugins. The discovered some of the issues I had faced with Elementor was because it wasn't compatible or conflicted with themes and other plugins.
- Positive: Provides a free plan for those not ready to invest.
- Postive: The paid plans are cost-effective and worth it.
- Negative: Unable to use the paid plugin on another website if you're moving your site to a new host due to the licensing restrictions. Resulting in having to pay for another plugin.
I started out using Elementor first and invested in the paid plan and then when I needed to move my website to a new host I was unable to use my previous paid plugin so I decided to try out Brizy. After being stung but Elementor I decided to not invest in Brizy and use their free plugin instead.
I found that Brizy was much easier to use, provided a lot more themes, functionalities and looked more professional and that's just with the free version. Elementor needs to have competition and definitely needs to improve what it offers.
I found that Brizy was much easier to use, provided a lot more themes, functionalities and looked more professional and that's just with the free version. Elementor needs to have competition and definitely needs to improve what it offers.
Developer
10-100 pages
Elementor Feature Ratings
Evaluating Elementor and Competitors
- Price
- Product Features
I had been using Elementor for 6 months and needed more features and ways to customize it to suit my business needs and had a look at the pro features and realized investing in the plan was the only way I could create the webpages I needed. The pro plan was a reasonable price and on top of that, I liked that it came with 12 months support.
If I had to do it again, I would have tested out Elementor for much longer and tried out alternatives. Since I had been using Elementor and most of my webpages were Elementor based I didn't want to try something that may have been totally different. I also would have made sure to only invest in the yearly pro plan once I knew which web hosting provider I wanted to commit to for the next 12 months.
Elementor Support
Pros | Cons |
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Knowledgeable team Immediate help available Support cares about my success | Slow Resolution Not kept informed Slow Initial Response |
Using Elementor
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Easy to use Technical support not required Feel confident using Familiar | Inconsistent |
- Drag and drop.
- Uploading images and embedding HTML.
- Adding bulk text.
- Making the pages mobile responsive.
- Resizing the videos.
- Creating integrated landing pages with an email service provider.