Intro to Elementor - April 2019 Elementor Meetup

Welcome to Elementor Meetup (First event Elementor Meetup in India)

Session Points that we will cover today
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1. What is Elementor?
2. Who are the Founders?
3. Why Elementor for your WordPress website?
4. Comparison with other page builders.
5. Before and After Elementor.
6. What can you create with Elementor?
7. Learning resources.

This will be the best session for you if you are thinking to start your journey with the any of the WordPress page builder then first go with it and you will identify that why Elementor is best instead of others.

This session is presented by Mr. Alkesh Miyani (WordPress Developer) who have more than 6 years of experience in WordPress and it's an ecosystem. He is working with Elementor from last one year and he really inspired with the solution providing by Elementor.

Transcript

2. Session Points that we will cover today 1. What is Elementor? 2. Who are the Founders? 3. Why Elementor for your WordPress website? 4. Comparison with other page builders. 5. Before and After Elementor. 6. What can you create with Elementor? 7. Learning resources.
3. 1. What is Elementor? • For those who are new in this industry, Elementor is a web page builder unlike other page builder that are available in the market. • It is also known as Live Page Builder i.e. What you see is what you get.
4. 2. Who are the Founders? Yoni Luksenberg Ariel Klikstein Founded in June 2016
5. 3. Why Elementor for your WP site? • Light-weight page builder. • By default, anything and everything that we create is Responsive. • Easy User Interface. • Coding skill is not required to develop simple web page.
6. 4. Comparison with other page builder 1. Elementor Free 2. SiteOrigin Free 3. Beaver Lite Free 4. Divi Premium 5. WPBakery Premium
7. Lets compare Open source page builder Elementor SiteOrigin Beaver Editing Mode Front end visual Back end Complex front end Inline editing Yes No Yes Save own template Yes No Yes Code lock-in No Yes No Active installation 2+ million 1+ million 500 k+ Languages 52 25 15 Issue Solved 76% 94% 43% Launched 2016 2011 2014
8. Before Elementor • Only Wordpress Developer can develop websites. • Complex UI. • Less learning materials.
9. After Elementor • Almost anyone can build a website without having technical knowledge. • Now web designer can create a complete website without the help from developer. • Elementor Community Support to learn and solve issues.
10. 6. What can you create within Elementor? • Custom Widget • Custom Template • Pop up
11. 7. Learning resources • https://elementor.com/learn • https://developers.elementor.com • https://elementorresources.com • https://learnelementor.co • https://facebook.com/groups/Elementors
12. Conclusion Why you should use Elementor as a Page developer? - Elementor has the best UI for Page building and day by day it’s popularity is increases with rapid speed. - Number speaks for it self 2+ Millions active users.
13. That’s all from my experience Thank you so much for listening me Alkesh Miyani twitter: @miyanialkesh7 wordpress.org: https://profiles.wordpress.org/alkesh7/