Elementor: Best Page Builder for WordPress with Theme Builder Features

Elementor Pro is an add-on to the free version of Elementor page builder. It will give extra features to design advanced custom layouts and templates for the web pages. With the help of Dynamic content, you will be able to create a custom layout for Woocommerce related pages and products.

Basic free version plugin is suitable to create attractive static pages, but to customize Header, Footer, Woocommerce pages Elementor pro is required. Elementor Pro works with any kind of theme you are using.

Elementor Pro Add-on Features

1. User Interface

With a modern user interface and live preview you can achieve the layout of a website based on your vision, even you do not even know to code. With the help of multiple sections and columns, you can create the most complex layout.

Elementor Pro gives premium templates across multiple niches so you can import templates directly and customize that based on the requirements.

Adding Custom CSS options give more flexibility over the design.

2. Elementor Pro widgets

Elementor Pro gives you 50+ elements in addition to free widgets, This will make your task easier, and no need to install any third-party plugins.

You will get a Form widget that even sends the notification to your mail and integrates with Zapier so no need to use any form plugins likes, Ninja Forms, Fluent forms, or Gravity forms.

Sliders Widget gives the best view for your landing page with a call to action button.

You can showcase your previous works or any picture with the help of an advanced Gallery widget.

The Social Share button gives the option to share any post or product on Social Media like Facebook or Twitter.

3. Pop Up Builder

Elementor Pop Up Builder is a powerful feature of the Elementor where you can create any sort of popup without using different popup makers.

You can kind of Popups like Registration Form, Social Sharing, Woocommervce products and even place that pop-ups where you want in the page for example in the center, notification bar, sidebar or anywhere.

With the flexible targeting, option content will pop up on the screen after some trigger happened.

In advance options based on roles, based on device, some amount of page view you can trigger the popups.

Elementor Theme Builder

Elementor Theme builder helps to create the entire theme setup or to create selected page templates. You can create a custom header, footer, blog page, Woocommerce shop page, or Woocommerce product page. The best use of theme builder is if you create a template for one post you can use that for every post, no need to create the same layout again.

Theme builder gives some extra widgets to create post/product page templates some of them are Title, Author, Content, Excerpt, etc.

You can add a template for the entire site or in a selected part of the site.

Dynamic Content

Dynamic content works with the concept of ‘build it once and use that anywhere’.

Dynamic content is Elementor’s most powerful tool that is very useful in creating Dynamic templates, Dynamic content helps you to get content from anywhere from your site, and using that in your template is also easy.

Creating a Dynamic template is an easy first drag and drop text widget then click the icon (showed below), the dropdown of dynamic tags will open you can select which one you want, the custom fields also appear in the list you can use that too.

Elementor Free V/S Pro

With Elementor you can create an attractive website with more blocks and sections but to enhance that to the next levels you might require Elementor pro.

The developers who want to make an experiment in the layout can use custom CSS options that give more flexibility to build layouts

From a Marketing perspective, Popup builder gives more visitors to the site that will increase the leads.

Pro’s and Con’s

Pricing.

Elementor pro comes in 3 different variants like personal, plus, and expert the detailed features you can see in the pricing.

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Final Verdict

If you want a WordPress page builder plugin to build your pages Elementor is one of the options, you will get a free version at WordPress.org you can try that out, once you got familiar with all the widgets and features you can use the Pro version by updating that to Elementor pro.