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Elementor

Score8.9 out of 10

110 Reviews and Ratings

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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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Key Features

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

  • Page templates

    The CMS has standard webpage templates or types of web pages (e.g. homepage, article page, interior page, blog page, etc.); users can also build custom templates.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Admin section

    The admin page is easy to navigate and use.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Library of website themes

    A library of website frameworks or themes is available as a starting point for building a website.

    Category average: 6.7

Areas for Improvement

  • 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: 8

  • Form generator

    Users can build website forms for visitors to fill out.

    Category average: 7.1

  • Internationalization / multi-language

    The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.

    Category average: 7.7

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Elementor.
Based on HG Insights installation data
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

6.5%

145,349 installations of 2,223,752

“Flexbox building has a deeper learning curve than the previous sections/columns builder. In-editor guidance would be helpful here.”

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#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

2.6%

57,902 installations of 2,223,752

#3 most frequent

Other Services (except Public Administration)

2.0%

45,455 installations of 2,223,752

Reviews

What users are saying about Elementor.
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Excellent front end WordPress Builder

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

Best Tool for Website Design and Creation.

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Marketing (11-50 employees 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 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

A great web builder for WordPress at a great price

Incentivized
Nathan LittletonView profile
Director in Corporate at Nathan Littleton (1-10 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • Significantly reduced development time
  • That reduced time is leading is to create better websites as a result.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

WordPress, Bricks, Squarespace, Wix and Webflow

Other Software Used

WordPress, MailerLite, Campaign Monitor by Marigold, Zapier, Pabbly

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

Incentivized
Rachel GarwoodView profile
Social Media and Web Developer in Social Media at Beyond Measure Market (11-50 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • Our sales have really grown over the past five years of using Elementor. We went from fulfilling less than five orders a month to now 10-15 per months. And we are a small bulk food store with a small audience.
  • We have been able to add plug ins along with Elementor to customize our products, store, and pages.
  • We haven't done as much with SEO and Elementor. I feel like this is one area that we could probably do better.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Square Online, Shopify, Robly, easyTithe and Apptivo

Other Software Used

easyTithe, Apptivo, Shopify