Elementor- All New Cutting Edge Page Builder for WordPress
Page builder is a time saving add-on which is helpful to add the content with grid based layout. With page builder you can create columns and add your content such as text, images, widgets and video etc. Now most of the paid themes comes with a page builder to make your job easy.
Till now siteorigin’s page builder was the one and only open source page builder, and now here comes another free and open source page builder for wordpress i.e. Elementor by Pojo Themes.
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Introduction to Elementor Open Source Page Builder
Elementor is a new free and open source page builder for wordpress with live and front-end editing features. Elementor is advanced yet simple to use page builder, it is faster compared to other page builders. You can edit anything on the page except the header & footer with Elementor.
Section and Column Manipulation with Elementor
Creating columns with Elementor is easy with drag-n-drop interface, with Elementor you can have a great control over columns and sections. You can align your content to top, middle or bottom inside the section, change the margin and padding of the section, apply different kind of borders, add background (both image and video) to your section and change the typography as well.
It is also possible to show or hide the section in mobile, tablet or desktop and add custom CSS class for the section to style it your own way.
Widgets of Elementor Page Builder
Elementor page builder comes with the great set of widgets such as column, heading, text editor, image, button and divider. Along with these basic components you get YouTube video widget, Google maps, number counter, progress bar, tabs, accordion, toggle box, icon set, icon list and alert etc.
How to Use Elementor?
Using Elementor page builder is pretty easy, Install the Elementor plugin and go to any page you want to edit and click on “Edit with Elementor” button. You will be taken to a live front end editor where you can edit the page with a bunch of customization options.
Final Thought
Elementor team is very passionate and is working hard to add more widgets to its page builder and hence you can expect more with this team in the future. Give a try to Elementor page builder right now and don’t forget to say a simple “Thank you” for their awesome product.
Hi Shrinivas, thanks for this piece. Any idea how one can edit the Home page? It doesn’t show up in the list of pages.
Hi, Create a page and choose homepage template for it, then go to “Settings > Reading” and choose your homepage from front page dropdown, now you should be able to edit the homepage.