Elementor

You don’t get to schmooze with potential clients or collaborators in the Experts Network. Maybe you have plenty of ways to network and don’t care about that. Nor will you have access to phone or email support.

But anyone can join the Elementor Forum, the unofficial support community. Just register for a free account using Twitter or your email address.

The free version has no theme or form builders, and no design-oriented popup builder. No WooCommerce builder or widgets, or motion effects.

Free plan features

The Elementor page builder itself and 40+ basic widgets. Everything you need to build a fully responsive website. Including the obvious:

• Heading
• Image
• Text editor
• Video
• Button
• Divider
• Spacer
• Google maps
• Icon
• WPForms

You also get this cool widget called an inner section, a container you can drag into a section to nest other elements inside of. We think that’s a surprisingly advanced feature for a free version.

Pro features

The list is long, so I’ve broken it down into widget categories.

• Text editing. Animated headline, blockquote, table of contents, code highlight, and share buttons.
• Media. Posts, portfolio, slides, gallery, and media carousel.
• Functional. Login, form, nav menu, countdown, and Lottie integration.
• Facebook. Comments, page, button, and embed.
• Business. Price list, price table, call to action, testimonial carousel, and reviews.

The z-index settings are essential if you use sticky elements. By using the z-index values to prioritize elements’ stack order, you can eliminate that annoying overlap problem.

Elementor Pro comes in five tiers.

Essential

• $49/year
• 1 pro site
• Premium support for 1 member

Advanced

• $99/year
• 3 pro sites
• Premium support for 1 member

Expert

• $199/year
• 25 pro sites
• Premium support for 1 member
• Elementor Experts Network Profile

Studio

• $499/year
• 100 pro sites
• VIP support for 5 members
• Elementor Experts Network Profile 

Agency

• $999/year
• 1,000 pro sites
• VIP support for 10 members
• Elementor Experts Network Profile

Customers with Premium support can expect an average response time of one day. VIP support gives you a live chat option, which is nice if there’s an emergency.

This much design power does not often come in such a user-friendly interface. You can tweak almost any setting of any element block to make your site look exactly the way you want it to. And the controls are all in one dock, organized by tab.

A word of caution, though.

Elementor makes it so simple and fun to build professional pages and posts that it’s easy to forget it’s a tool, not a robot designer.

You’ll still have to plan, create, and format your content first. You’ll still need design skills. You’ll still need to know (or learn) what style and advanced settings actually do to use them well.

Because even if you’re using the most powerful and intuitive page builder in the world, it’s still possible to build an ugly page with user experience problems.

So don’t let its power and simplicity tempt you to take shortcuts. You’ll get the best results from Elementor by digging in and learning it inside and out.