Elementor isn’t the new kid on the block anymore. It’s a fully fleshed, constantly evolving website builder, with a lot of aces up its sleeve.
Despite stiff competition, it has quickly become one of the most popular, visual page builders for WordPress, and it continues to grow at a rapid pace.
Since it’s release in mid-2016, Elementor has had over 5 million installs and an impressive 4.8 star rating on WordPress.org.
People clearly love it — but is this just the latest fad, or is Elementor truly the ultimate page builder for WordPress?
Let’s find out in our Elementor review.
The Good, Bad, And The Ugly
For this review, I fired up Elementor to see how well this page builder fares in comparison to popular alternatives.
From here on out, I’ll share my experiences using this tool, as well as what I liked and didn’t like along the way.
Let’s do this.
Installing Elementor
There’s nothing worse (well almost nothing) than wanting to test a new WordPress page builder and running into technical issues when you’re trying to install it.
Adding Elementor to your WordPress install is as easy as adding any other good plugin:
If you’re lucky enough to own the Pro version, installation here is also easy peasy. Just download your installation ZIP file, upload it via the ‘Add Plugins’ screen and away you go.
This is a lot easier than the process certain WordPress page builders follow, including the one I had to upload via FTP.
If you’re not familiar with FTP, it’s what Fred Flintstone used to upload his page builder plugins.
N.B. Elementor Pro is an “add-on” for the free version of Elementor i.e. you need the free version installed for the Pro version to work.
