Elementor made building this website a nightmare
September 20, 2021

Elementor made building this website a nightmare

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Elementor

I always used the Jupiter X theme from Artbees for designing websites because they had a very easy-to-use and fully customizable web page builder called WPBakery. I was disappointed when I saw they stopped supporting WPBakery and made the switch to Elementor. [In my experience] Elementor is not good. I kept using it more and more hoping that I would get used to it, but it is so incredibly flawed and filled with bugs that it quite literally makes changes to your website on its own. That shouldn't be possible, but it makes very strange and unappealing changes regularly while using it. At first, it looks very user-friendly. When you begin building your website the Elementor setup does look nice and is easy to use. However, when you get into the more detailed parts of your site Elementor just falls apart. For example, for changing font size and other typography options in a text box, you have two separate areas where Elementor gives you buttons to change the options and you have two additional places where you can change the exact same settings using HTML/CSS. That is four separate places to do the exact same thing and changing any one of those settings will not affect the other three. Elementor almost always starts with two of those settings filled in with different default values. Then it seems to randomly choose between the four options for which settings it will use on your site. It's just a mess to get all the elements of your website in order.
  • [I believe] it does nothing well.
  • Filled with bugs.
  • Reduce the number of places to adjust the same settings.
  • Made me completely change the way I build websites.
  • Encouraged me to become a full-stack developer so I would never again have to use this.
I want WP Bakery back.

Do you think Elementor delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Elementor's feature set?

No

Did Elementor live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Elementor go as expected?

No

Would you buy Elementor again?

No

[I feel] with any website being developed Elementor should not be used. I will not recommend Elementor to anyone. I almost never write reviews on products. When I do it's generally because I think the product should get a higher review. However, my experience with this product over the last two years has been so bad that I had to share this somewhere for potential customers to see it.

Elementor Feature Ratings

WYSIWYG editor
2
Admin section
1
Page templates
1
Library of website themes
1
Mobile optimization / responsive design
4
Publishing workflow
1
Form generator
1
Content taxonomy
4
SEO support
2
Bulk management
2
Availability / breadth of extensions
1
Community / comment management
1
API
5
Internationalization / multi-language
5
Role-based user permissions
1