Slides from my talk at WordPress Vienna MeetUp October 11, 2017.

1. Elementor Page Builder
WordPress Vienna MeetUp
October 11/2017
Rolf Mistelbacher
Fresh van Root.com

2. •A few slides about Elementor
•My highlights > why I like it
•How to get started
•DEMO
•Your experience / discussion
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4. Elementor
• Company:
• Pojo Me Digital LTD was
Founded in 2014
• „Premium WordPress themes“
• 2015 work on Elementor
started
• First Elementor plugin
release: June 1, 2016
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7. The business side of it
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9. Highlights
„My Highlights“
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10. The „real“ WYSIWYG experience
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11. Real mobile edting experience
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12. Template gallery
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13. Save Content as Widget
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14. Save Content as Widget
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15. Ways to design individual components
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16. Section dividers
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17. Redo / Revert & Revisions
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18. Visibility settings for sections
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19. Simple form builder
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20. Options for background
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21. Getting Started
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22. Which underlying theme?
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23. Install plugin
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24. Full Canvas
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25. Load a readymade template and play with it
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26. Very Basic Concept
• Sections (Layout)
• Columns (Layout)
• Content Components (Content)
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27. Read the blog to keep up with changes
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28. Many tutorials,.. (including my own)
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(15 months…)

29. Demo
• Create a Page
• Import template
• Edit background
• Change text
• Editing experience mobile vs. Desktop
• Show different elements
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30. Use cases
• Time2market > quickly build a page for marketing purposes
• Prototype your page with Elementor > play around and see
whats possible
• One scroll / single page layouts
• Not meant for building a corporate page with hundred pages
• But maybe the tool to build that one special page,..
• It is not a tool to publish
• blog posts
• Longform text posts / text heavy pages
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31. Findings
• If you are completely new to WordPress you will be overwhelmed by
the amount of options to design your site – not the best way to get
started with WordPress
• Newbies will create very ugly pages at first
• A webdesigner can get pretty far without touching code
• Case of good enough vs. custom made (CI/Branding)
• Cant comment on performance of Elementor pages or how hard it is
to manage a bunch of Elementor pages long term
• If a design trend emerges you can expect that it gets integrated in
Elementor (many releases / updates)
• UI changes a lot!
• If you are a WordPress geek you will have much fun with Elementor!
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32. Thanks!
freshvanroot.com/blog
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