Jeffrey Dalrymple takes a look at the current state of Elementor’s new v.4 editor. Where are they nailing it and where is it drifting?

New product owners and developers wonder why their products fail to gain traction while Elementor’s numbers continue to rapidly climb. There was a time when you could launch a good product and it would sell itself by word of mouth, but the WordPress ecosystem is so large and fractured now that just sharing on Facebook and X aren’t enough. The truth is that it takes a lot of continuous marketing to break through, and that effort has to be sustained. Part of Elementor’s success was that it went outside of the Facebook bubble and marketed to designers in design publications and other places they lived. It looks like the Droip team is following that playbook. Droip has a good (sponsored) write-up in Smashing Magazine that plays to a designer audience.

Nexter Blocks Pro comes with an entire toolkit that includes the large Nexter Blocks collection, the feature rich Nexter Extension plugin, the Nexter Theme, and WDesignKit library.  In this video I walkthrough what each of these brings to the site building experience.

Alex de Borba shares his assessment of FluentCart and how it fits in the WordPress ecommerce ecosystem.

The new version of Elementor is introducing atomic elements and the ability to work with CSS classes directly. For the most part this is working well, but there is a problem, which I show in this video, that I hope the Elementor team can fix.

AnalyticsWP is a self-hosted analytics plugin that is more accurate than Google Analytics and is very easy to use. In this video I do a walk-through showing the features and then discuss its pros and cons.

Voxel is a WordPress theme with features for creating directory and membership sites. It comes with a number of advanced features and has Elemetor integrated as its builder.

I’ve been using All in One WP Migration for backing up and migrating sites during testing and development, but recently took a closer look at WPVivid and noticed a number of advantages, even in its free version. In this video I show some of the advantages of using WPVivid over using the All in One WP Migration plugin.

Oddly, here is an in-depth comparison of Elementor and Divi … written by the Oxygen team and published on the Oxygen blog.