The free Image Optimizer plugin by Elementor just passed 800,000 active installs. Congrats to the Elementor team on reaching this milestone.

This podcast interview with Miriam Schwab and Oliver Sild might be of interest to developers interested in the free Patchstack managed Vulnerability Disclosure Program. They discuss how the program works and how it is of benefit to theme and plugin developers.

The Elementor team is continuing to expand their offerings. They are now offering services for things like site migration, setting up lead magnets, or malware cleanup.

See Paul Charlton curse in this video on how to turn off Elementor AI

Here is a nice design tutorial from Jeffrey Dalrymple. He shows how to create a subtle skeuomorphic (realistic 3d) effect that can be applied to buttons, cards, or other block elements. Elementor is used in the video, but the principles can be used with any builder.

For Elementor users – here is a helpful tutorial from Mark Crowell on how to find the causes of and how to fix horizontal overflow issues.

Elementor introduced a new “Lite” plan that only has Elementor free. It is $36 the first year and then goes to $144 a year. They also raised pricing on the other plans.

Jeffrey Dalrymple has been busy making courses but now he is making videos again. Here is one showing how he creates a starter site that uses Elementor. A starter site is a site template with your plugins and theme installed and configured. You can then clone it for a quick start every time you being a new build.

A new Elementor beta 3.20 has been released and Paul Charlton takes a look at the features. The main one is more visibility conditions.