Elementor Page Builder Review

While I find Elementor’s interface to be very streamlined and smooth, but I don’t think this is what makes Elementor stand out as there are many visual page builder with a similar sleek interface.

However, there are lots of areas where Elmentor has gone beyond in comparison with other visual page builders. Which is why today it is actively used on over 4 million WordPress sites.

Let’s go through some standout features…

01. Huge Widget Selection for Design Flexibility

One of the prime features of Elementor is its huge collection of Widget library. Elementor has as much as 30 basic widgets in Free version and you can get access to more design-oriented widgets in the pro version.

The best thing is, Elementor team keeps updating the widget library with new Widget over time. From social icons to pricing tables, login forms, sliders, post grids, and more, you get enough widget to design your desired content.

But it’s not just about the 60-75 widgets that come with Elementor Pro, you can extend Elementor with third-party Elementor addons and get access to even more widgets and templates.

With so many options, you can almost always find a widget that does exactly what you want it to.

02. Inline text editing

Having to enter text in the sidebar area of the editor or a popup rather than directly into your page design is by far a major problem of most of the page builder available for WordPress.

In fact, Elementor was also not having inline text editing capabilities in the past, but last year they added Inline text editing which gives you a convenient method for editing text on your page.

Now you can just click on the page and start typing.

03. Detailed Style and Positioning Rules

To put simply, Elementor gives you more designing and styling options than most of the other popular page Builders.

You can of course make basic tweaks like switching up colors, fonts, spacing, etc.

But then Elementor Pro gives you loads of advance designing and styling options. For example:

• Shape Divider:  It gives you a great way to add fun transitions between each section of your page. You can choose from more than 25 different shapes and that can be 100% customized to create an endless and versatile array of dividers.

Here is an example of Shape divider:

• Motion Effect: It lets you create eye-catching animation like mouse tracking or 3D tilt, including sophisticated parallax effects.

Watch this Tutorial to check the Motion effect feature live.

• Custom Positioning: It is one of my favourite designing options in Elementor. It lets you position elements anywhere on the page. That means unlike other page builders, you are no longer restricted by your sections/columns layouts.

Watch this quick YouTube Tutorial to understand d the custom positioning feature. (You’ll love it)

And of course, if the inbuilt settings are not enough, Elementor Pro also lets you add custom CSS directly to any of your individual elements.

04. Huge Collection of Template Selection to Save You Time

While Elementor gives you everything to build your page from scratch, but you don’t always need to do everything yourself thanks to the Elementor template library.

Elementor Template library is divided into two categories:

• Pages — Full page templates for different purposes like homepage, sales page, lead generation page, about page, etc. All you do is customize them to meet your needs.
• Blocks — In this section, you’ll find templates for specific parts of a page, like an author bio, call-to-action, footer, header, FAQ, etc. You can mix-and-match them like legos to build complete designs.

Note: Once you have some of your own design, you can also save them as templates or blocks to reuse them.

05. Mobile previews and responsive design controls

Nowadays, more people browse the internet through mobile devices than the computer. In fact, according to the 2020 first quarter search report – Mobile devices (excluding tablets) generated 52.6 percent of global website traffic.

So, it means your designs should look greats no matter how people are browsing.

To make sure your page designs look good on all types of devices (computer, laptop, mobile & tablet) Elementor all design elements are pre-responsive.

On top of that Elementor let you easily preview how your designs look on the different devices within a single click.

But this is not what makes Elementor the most responsive page Builder.

Elementor lets you control the styling option for each element based on a user’s device.

For example – You can have different heading sizes for Desktop, mobile as well as Tablets. Similarly, you can have different font colors for different devices and so on.

Elementor also takes things further by letting you show and hide individual sections or elements on certain devices.

For example – If you have a large full-width hero section on your page that you don’t want to display on the mobile version of your site. Elementor’s responsive design control lets you hide it on mobile devices with just click of a toggle.

06. Flexible Form Widget and Integrations

Above I mentioned the huge collection of Widget available in Elementor Pro, but its worth mentioning out a specific widget called “Form” widget.

Elementor allows you to build complete and beautiful online forms in minutes, controlling every aspect of layout, spacing, and structure

It lets you collect any type of data from your user – emails, number, URL, dates, and more using dedicated fields

On top of that, you can hook your forms with any email marketing services like Mailchimp, Mailerlite, Convertkit, ActiveCampaign, GetResponse, and more.

There’s also a Webhook option that lets you connect to Zapier (and the thousands of apps available there), as well as chat integrations for Slack and Discord.

07. Easy undo/redo and full revision history

It’s pretty common that we often make mistakes and when it comes to designing the probability of making mistake gets higher.

So, If you do mess something up, Elementor makes it easy to undo your mistakes in 3 different ways.

First, you can press CTRL + Z on your keyboard to manually undo your most recent changes.

Second, every single change you make in your design is recorded and can be reverted as needed.

Lastly, every time you save your design, you’ll also get a completely new revision and you can easily revert your design to any revision you made in the last 30 days. (Isn’t it cool)

08. WooCommerce Builder for Custom eCommerce Designs

If you have ever tried to build a Wocoommerce site, you must be knowing how complicated it is to customize the layout of these types of websites.

With the Elementor WooCommerce builder feature, you reach a pixel perfect custom-designed store without writing a single line of code.

Elementor’s WooCommerce builder deals with the two most fundamental areas of WC sites:

• Single Product page: It lets you create the perfect product pages with pre-designed templates that get more sales.

• Product Archive page: It lets you optimize the look and feel of pages that showcase your products.

I’ll recommend you to watch this YouTube to see how Elementor can easily help you build a WooCommerce site:

09. Popup Builder for Marketing, Usability, and More

If you are using Elmentor Pro, then you don’t need to use a separate plugin like OptinMonster or Thrive lead for creating opt-in or popup forms.

You can use Elmentor Popup Builder, you can create any modal you can imagine: Fly-In, Full Screen, Hello Bar, Bottom Bar, Classic, Slide-in and more.

The best thing is Elementor allows you to use the same designing interface to build all sorts of popups and display them anywhere on your site as per hundreds of triggering and targeting conditions.

On top of that, you can use the full array of Elmeneotr widget in your popup – This opens up a lot of possibilities:

• You can create Email opt-in popups with the Form widget and connect them directly to your email marketing service provider.
• Login popups using the Login widget.
• Create promotion and sales banner to get more eyes on your special offers by including them inside popups
• You can use it to Reveal your premium content (content locks and upgrades) to users who opted in or agreed to your terms
• Social share button popups using the Share Buttons widget.
• Display exit-intent popup to motivate your visitors to stay or buy, just when they are about to leave your site

The possibilities are pretty much endless!

One more thing which is worth mentioning here is it’s Advanced Yet Intuitive Targeting rules.

It lets you determine where you want to display popups on your site (Like a specific post, page, category or anywhere else) as well as when you want to display your popup (Like when your user click on something, After X amount of time, at the time of exit and so on)

10. Clean code if you ever deactivate Elementor

Even some popular page builder like WWPBakery or DIVI completely messes up things when you deactivate them from your site.

As soon as you deactivate them, they will leave thousands of shortcodes on your age designing with those page builder.

Thankfully, you don’t have to worry about something like that with Elementor. It leaves no shortcode on your page even if you deactivate the plugin. Though you’ll obviously lose all the styling but that doesn’t mean your page will look odd. All the texts, images, links will appear as it is.