Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder

Description

THE #1 WEB CREATION PLATFORM, POWERING OVER 16M WEBSITES WORLDWIDE.

Elementor, the leading WordPress website builder,empowers you to build professional, pixel-perfect websites. With an intuitive, no-code drag and drop interface, you can build any website.

Revolutionize the way you build websites with Elementor AI, a native AI integration. Create complete sections, original text, code, and images instantly, or reference another website to recreate its layout in your website.

Unlock all features with Elementor Pro.

PIXEL-PERFECT WEBSITES

Gain full control over your website’s design and layout with Elementor’s Page Builder. Drag elements to the canvas, and position them to achieve your desired page structure, and functionality.

Leverage Flexbox and CSS Grid Containers to create professional, lightweight, and responsive layouts. Use Elementor’s Nested Elements to elevate your design and unlock more freedom by nesting elements within other elements, such as placing widgets within the content area of Tabs or Accordions.

ADVANCED CAPABILITIES

With Elementor’s robust features and over 40 free widgets, you can create unique websites. Use advanced design capabilities, such as uploading SVG files, applying masks, box shadows, gradient backgrounds, headline effects, shape dividers, built-in CSS controls, and more.

FULL WEBSITE KITS AND TEMPLATE LIBRARY

Save time, or find inspiration with designer-made website kits and templates. Apply a Full Website Kit to get a website in a snap, including the Homepage, Service Page, and more. Use the library to import Single Pages, Blocks, or Popup templates. Or create and export your own templates and import them to another website to create reusable blueprints.

FULLY RESPONSIVE

Adjust the content and presentation of your website per device. With Custom Breakpoints, adjust your website’s design for an ideal experience on every device. Display content based on device type, set alignment, spacing, layout, order, etc.

40+ FREE WIDGETS

Elementor includes 40+ free widgets for professional and engaging websites:

  • Heading. Add eye-catching headlines.
  • Image. Control the size, opacity and more.
  • Text Editor. Just like the WordPress editor.
  • Video. Add YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion or self-hosted videos.
  • Button. Control every aspect of the button.
  • Image Box. A box with image, headline and text.
  • Testimonials. Customer testimonials.
  • Icon. Place one or more of 600+ icons available.
  • Icon Box. An icon, headline, and text with one widget.
  • Social Icons. Link to your social pages with the Facebook/X (formerly Twitter) icons.
  • Image Gallery. Display your images in a grid.
  • Image Carousel. Create rotating carousels or sliders for chosen images.
  • Icon List. Use any icon to create a bullet list.
  • Counter. Show numbers in an escalating manner.
  • Progress Bar. Include an escalating progress bar.
  • Nested Tabs. Display content in vertical or horizontal tabs.
  • Nested Accordion. Display any type of content in collapsible sections.
  • Toggle. Use the Toggle to hide or display content, like FAQ.
  • Rating. Display how many stars (or another icon) other visitors gave.
  • Alert. Include a colored alert box to draw visitor’s attention.
  • HTML. Insert code into the page.
  • Shortcode. Insert shortcodes from any plugin into the page.
  • Menu Anchor. Link any menu to this anchor.
  • Read More. Set the Read More cut-off for the excerpt in archive pages.
  • Sidebar. Add sidebars onto the page.
  • Google Maps. Embed maps into the page.
  • SoundCloud. Add SoundCloud audio bits.
  • Divider. Separate content with a designed divider.
  • Spacer. Add space between elements.
  • Text Path. Attach your text to a path.
  • And counting…

ACCELERATE YOUR WEB CREATION PROCESS

To accelerate your workflow Elementor includes workflow and collaboration enhancing features, including:

  • Finder – quickly navigate between different pages and website components, or create new website parts quickly.
  • Add to Favorites – pin frequently used widgets to the top of the widget panel.
  • Copy & Paste Between One Editor to Another – copy any element or layout from the Editor of one website to another.
  • Revision History – restore and compare previous versions of your website.

FAST LOADING WEBSITES

Website performance impacts your visitor’s experience and search result ranking. Therefore, Elementor continuously invests in improving performance and partnered with Google Chrome to identify more ways to optimize, without impacting design. Features include: reduced DOM output, improved media file loading, reduced CSS and JS files, lazy loading, faster font loading, optimized front-end asset loading, and more. Check our performance page.

Looking to boost sites performance? Meet the Image Optimizer plugin by Elementor: an easy-to-use WordPress plugin that effortlessly reduces image sizes without sacrificing quality. Compatible with popular formats like JPEG, PNG, WebP, and GIF, it ensures a visually stunning, high-speed website – download now!

ACCESSIBILITY BEST-PRACTICES

Elementor offers accessibility tools and enhancements to help you provide a better experience for all users. Including HTML 5 semantic, full keyboard navigation menu, ongoing improvement of features, widget, and more.

A STRONG COMMUNITY

Join a global community that helps each other achieve their goals. Get answers, solve problems with other members, share knowledge, and more. Join community discussions, meetups, enjoy hundreds of YouTube videos, articles, and tutorials made by members worldwide.

Developer API

Elementor is open-source, Therefore developers have full access to documentation about the Editor’s code components including hooks, integrations and controllers. This includes a developer’s website, Developers Docs, Developers Blog, GitHub, Add-on Developers Newsletter, and more.

TRANSLATED TO 63+ LANGUAGES, INCLUDES RTL SUPPORT

Elementor supports multiple languages and typographies and is RTL compatible, with Editor translations to over 63 languages OOTB. Elementor is also compatible with WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, and more.
If you would like to contribute, add a new language via translate.ww.wp.xz.cn. See our guide on how to translate and localize the plugin.

ELEVATE YOUR WEBSITE WITH ELEMENTOR PRO

Create unparalleled websites while saving time, money and resources with Elementor Pro’s full website builder. Get access to 100+ professional widgets, features, and tools.

Elementor Pro’s features include:

  • Exclusive Kits and Templates – get a jumpstart or get inspired with pre-designed kits and templates.
  • Advanced Motion Effects – create unparalleled experiences by making elements on your website move, or keep elements in view at all times using sticky effects.
  • Industry-leading Theme Builder – customize your theme parts including header, footer, single post, post archive, single product, product archive, 404 page, and more.
  • WooCommerce Builder – design and customize every part of your online store to boost conversion.
  • Professional Form Builder and Submissions – collect lead submissions to stay connected with your visitors.
  • Popup Builder – display popups to the right visitor at the right time to boost conversion.
  • Dynamic Content – populate your website with content from your WordPress CMS.
  • Loop Builder – design your own listing template and leverage alternate templates to promote specific content within your listing grid.
  • Mega Menu widget – create simple or sophisticated menus for an intuitive navigation experience for your visitors.
  • Marketing automation and CRM integrations – connect your forms to your favorite software to stay connected with visitors.
  • Scroll Snap – create engaging experiences and ensure visitors scroll through your website as intended.
  • Custom fonts & icons – ensure you follow GDPR requirements and match your website’s fonts and icons to your brand.
  • Role manager – provide collaborators with appropriate access and editing capabilities.
  • Blog post widget – create a template to display blog posts.
  • Nested Carousel – design captivating carousels using any widget in each carousel slide.
  • Global widgets – adjust the content, styles and settings of a widget and reuse it across your website.
  • Custom CSS – apply custom css to any element, or globally to elevate your design.
  • Custom Code – apply custom code anywhere on your website to elevate its experience.
  • 90+ Professional widgets

Build professional websites with Elementor Pro!

SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE

Elementor places a paramount focus on security, evident through our acquisition of industry certifications such as ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 27701, and SOC 2 Type II. These certifications underscore our commitment to implementing robust security measures, and highlight our dedication to adhering to recognized industry standards.

To build secure and reliable software, we follow a Secure System Development Lifecycle based on industry best practices. Our development process integrates multiple services that monitor vulnerabilities and configuration mistakes, including those in third-party libraries. Each line of code we release undergoes manual and automated quality assurance to detect and address any potential issues.

We encourage ethical security research through our Bug Bounty program. We collaborate with leading bug bounty services to provide opportunities for researchers to report vulnerabilities in our services. Our bounty programs include a triage team available 24/7/365.

For more information: Trust Center.

RESOURCES AND SUPPORT

USE OF 3RD PARTY SERVICES

To improve the user experience, Elementor may use the following 3rd party services if the required feature is enabled:

  • Google Fonts – are loaded to add additional fonts to your website. Google’s TOS and Privacy Policy
  • Some Elementor features require loading additional assets from Elementor.com. These assets are not used for tracking purposes unless it’s explicitly mentioned otherwise, in which case you would need to approve it and manually opt-in. Learn more about our TOS and Privacy Policy.

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Screenshots

  • Visual Drag and Drop Editor - Design your website layouts and place any element anywhere on the page for pixel-perfect designs.
  • Full Design System - Enjoy a professional workflow and ensure consistency across your site. Define your settings, use them globally, and instantly adjust them any time.
  • Responsive Design Fully edit your website and customize the behavior on desktop, tablet, & mobile to optimize the visitor experience on every device.
  • Kits and Templates - Jumpstart your web creation process or get inspired with professionally-designed templates or full website kits available for your immediate customization.
  • Nested Elements Leverage Elementor's Nested widgets to place any widget inside the content area of another widget - like Tabs, and Accordion for complete design flexibility.
  • Motion Effects - Add entrance animations and transitions to any element in your website to captivate visitors.

Installation

Minimum Requirements

  • WordPress 6.0 or greater
  • PHP version 7.4 or greater
  • MySQL version 5.0 or greater

Recommended Requirements

  • PHP version 8.1 or greater
  • MySQL version 5.6 or greater
  • WordPress Memory limit of 64 MB or greater (128 MB or higher is preferred)

Installation

  1. Install using the WordPress built-in Plugin installer, or Extract the zip file and drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to Pages > Add New
  4. Press the ‘Edit with Elementor’ button.
  5. Now you can drag and drop widgets from the left panel onto the content area, as well as add new sections and columns that make up the page structure.

For documentation and tutorials visit our Knowledge Base.

FAQ

How do I install Elementor?

To install the free version of Elementor, follow the steps below:
From your WordPress dashboard -> Go to Plugins -> Click on ‘Add new’-> In the Search field, enter Elementor and choose Elementor website builder.
Press install -> After installation, click Activate.

Does Elementor work with all the themes?

Elementor works all the themes that respect the coding standards of WordPress set by its Codex. It is recommended to use Elementor’s Hello Theme, a lightweight blank canvas, to enjoy full flexibility when using Elementor, and optimize your experience.

Is Elementor compatible with Gutenberg?

Elementor and Gutenberg work seamlessly together. As a user, you can easily decide which editor to use at every point while editing your site.

Can I create an online store?

Yes, with the Elementor Pro WooCommerce Builder you can customize every page of your store to create an amazing customer experience that drives sales.

Does it work with other WordPress plugins?

It works with almost all the plugins. If you experience an incompatibility issue, please report it to us and to the plugin that conflicts with Elementor.

Do I need to know how to code?

No! Elementor provides you with all the widgets and features that you need to build a proffesional website without using code.

Do i need to know how to design?

No, you can choose between professionaly designed kits and templates that fit toevery industry and have all you need to create your own profesional website.

Will elementor slow down my website?

As Elementor prioritizes speed and performance, you enjoy better and faster performance with each new version of Elementor. When testing the same page layout on older versions you can see a significant performance improvement, from a score of 82 in Google PageSpeed Insight in version 3.1, to a score of 95 i in version 3.5.

Is my site secure with Elementor?

The security of your website is extremely important to us and we take proactive measures to assure that your websites are secure. Elementor is ISO 27001 certified, and has a dedicated team of security professionals that implements industry best-practices for maximum security and compliance, 24/7.

There is also a managed security Bug Bounty program, utilizing the community power by enabling 24/7/365 crowdsourced vulnerability detection.

Can I buy templates separately?

Of course, you can use any template that supports Elementor.

Is Elementor compatible with Post and Custom Post Types?

Of course! You can set which post types will enable Elementor in the settings page.

What is the difference between Elementor’s free Plugin and Elementor Pro

Elementor’s Free version allows you to explore our revolutionary drag & drop live editor, basic widgets and templates. Elementor Pro (Essential, Advanced, Expert, Studio, and Agency) empowers you with more professional tools that speed up your workflow, give you access to human-powered support, help you build more advanced content, and convert visitors. See full comparison here.

How can I become a Contributor

If you want to contribute, go to our Elementor GitHub Repository and see where you can help.
You can also add a new language via translate.ww.wp.xz.cn. We’ve built a short guide explaining how to translate and localize the plugin.

Reviews

March 27, 2024
I upgraded too elementor pro yesterday and it has brocken my site. I have logged it with elementor and the technician assigned has given me all the work to do even thoough they have full access. it didnt work so now i sit with a brocken site waiting for them to respond. Shocking
March 26, 2024
Stuff get's rolled out. They haven't tested It. It doesn't work or worse... it causes new problems. I am an Elementor Pro subscriber with 20+ sites. It has gotten to the point that I'm don't like updated the plugin, which is a ridiculous potion to be put it. It's a recurring process that needs resolving.
March 23, 2024
I Think Elementor is a very versatile theme on the market, compared to the most that are on the other side very old fashioned and hard to use. What I would love to see is a real flexblock, on the same model of the dead flothemes. If you do this, a fluid block they is going to be a real game changer. Keep going in this way. You are the best.
March 23, 2024
Unfortunately this is just the most heavy plug in when it comes to server resources. Especially noticeable when used on a site along with woocommerce plugin, those 2 do not get on well, they are both heavy. It requires permanent updates to the database and in fact you are nearly always notified about it after login in the wp dashboard. Often times makes the site soo slow you can't even edit it, costing you time. Elementor knows about it but even after several years later they still can not come up with a solution. There probably isn't any since its just too bloated. We use the Pro version which makes it even more difficult to run and we use 6 core server. The principle is good, if you have no deep knowledge of wordpress and coding you can play quite a bit as an absolute beginner and start quite quickly with some hiccups but on a real site especially woocommerce site it is an absolute pain. I we given up. The best is to shed the hog and migrate to lighter solutions without Elementor.
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Contributors & Developers

“Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder” has been translated into 63 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

3.20.3 – 2024-03-26

  • Fix: Edit with Elementor button is missing for pages that had been previously edited with Elementor when using WordPress 6.5 (#25495, #25496)
  • Security Fix: Improved code security enforcement in Text Path Widget

3.20.2 – 2024-03-20

  • Fix: Media file is not allowed to be uploaded within the editor (#25077, #25187)

3.20.1 – 2024-03-13

  • Fix: Radial background gradient is not working as expected in responsive mode (#25038)
  • Fix: Tabs widget remains visible when disabled in the Element Manager

3.20.0 – 2024-03-11

  • Tweak: Enanached TTFB metric by removing UI controls and some arguments from frontend loading for better site performance
  • Tweak: Resolved excessive DOM output when using Grid Container and Flexbox Container widgets
  • Tweak: Added X icon to Font Awesome icon library (#23345)
  • Tweak: Added Threads icon to Font Awesome icon library (#23345)
  • Tweak: Restricted HTML widget privileges to admin users only for enhanced security and control
  • Tweak: Introduced the capability for admin users to grant HTML widget usage permissions to non-admin users in the Role Manager
  • Tweak: Refined Editor’s unit selection DOM output for better efficiency
  • Tweak: Implemented accessibility improvements in Dynamic Tags control
  • Tweak: Implemented accessibility improvements in widget panel sections
  • Tweak: Implemented accessibility improvements in Site Settings items
  • Tweak: Implemented accessibility improvements in the Elements panel keyboard accessible
  • Tweak: Implemented accessibility improvements in Color Picker control
  • Tweak: Implemented accessibility improvements in Site Settings header buttons
  • Tweak: Implemented accessibility improvements for actions in the History panel
  • Tweak: Implemented accessibility improvements for revisions in History panel
  • Tweak: Added semantic <time> wrapper for items in History panel
  • Tweak: Added semantic <search> wrapper to Widgets search
  • Tweak: Promoted Build with AI feature to Stable status
  • Tweak: Global Style Guide feature merged to version
  • Tweak: Promoted Inline Font Icons feature to Stable status
  • Tweak: Activated Grid Container feature by default for new sites
  • Tweak: Removed separator-none argument from all Editor controls
  • Tweak: Relocated Icon and Content Spacing controls to the Box section in Icon Box widget
  • Tweak: Relocated Image and Content Spacing controls to the Box section in Image Box widget
  • Tweak: Relocated Alignment control from Content tab to Style tab in Button widget
  • Tweak: Replaced Position select control with toggle control in Tabs widget
  • Tweak: Replaced Icon Position select control with toggle control in Button widget
  • Tweak: Hide the Border Radius control of Drop Cap in Text Editor widget
  • Tweak: Hide image controls when image is not selected in Image widget
  • Tweak: Removed Size control for new usage in Button Widget
  • Tweak: Replaced Dismiss Icon select control with toggle control in Alert widget
  • Tweak: Replaced Additional Options select controls with toggle controls in Image Carousel widget
  • Tweak: Added missing title attribute to the Editor preview iframe
  • Tweak: Added a new reference to the Extensions page from Add New Plugin screen
  • Tweak: Improved flexibility of the widget promotion area for better extendability and customization
  • Tweak: Implemented general improvements to i18n for enhanced global support
  • Tweak: Updated eicons library to v5.28.0
  • Tweak: Standardized section names across various Elementor widgets for uniformity and clarity
  • Fix: Compatability issues with various 3rd party plugins when Optimize Image Loading feature is activated (#24226)
  • Fix: install_compare() in Experiments Manager throw an error in PHP 8.2+ if get_installs_history() returned an empty result

See changelog for all versions.