The Elementor design team released the third site template kit. This one is targeted to portfolio sites. These site kits are “complete websites” in that they provide common pages that are pre-designed. This template kit is very attractive and colorful and breaks out of the common template mold based on stock photos.
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Elementor Pro – New Pro Gallery Widget
Elementor released a new Pro Gallery widget with is a very nice gallery with a number of display options (tile, masonry, grid, justified). You can add multiple galleries and get a filter option as well. One thing that I noticed about this addition is that the Elementor team created the gallery JavaScript from scratch with […]
Premium Addons for Elementor New Color Transition Widget
The new Premium Addons Color Transition Widget is pretty cool. It gives you the option for background color transitions where you can have the background of a section change color when you scroll it into view. In their demo, they pair it with some image easing to create a subtle, yet eye-catching effect.
PowerPack for Elementor – New FAQ Widget
PowerPack is another Elementor addon that gets a frequent mention because they are regularly updating their product. The latest addition is a FAQ widget. You have the ability to manually enter your FAQ question and answers and style the display accordion. There are several things though that make this a standout widget. First, you can […]
Crocobloack JetElements – New Bar Chart Widget
Crocoblock added a new widget to the JetElements plugin. The bar chart widget allows you to manually enter the labels and values for bar charts or you can use dynamic data to populate the values. I was glad to see that they continue to include the dynamic data options with new widgets.
Crocoblock – New JetStyleManager Plugin
If you are a Crocoblock user then you are the owner of an plugin suite that just keeps giving. They introduced a new JetStyleManager plugin. It adds new “Editor Load Levels” settings of None, Low, Medium, Advanced, and Full. The settings apply to most of the Crocoblock widgets. As you ratchet down the load level, […]
Astra Pro 2.1
Astra Pro 2.1 was released with the major feature being the ability to move inline theme CSS to a separate CSS file. This should make it easier for browsers to cache and make page load faster.
Flexible Elementor Panel Walk-through
I did a walk-through of the Flexible Elementor Panel plugin. This doesn’t add widgets, but instead adds some nice quality of life enhancements to the Elementor editor. If you aren’t familiar with the plugin then checkout the article or video.
Unlimited Elements Widget Creator Tutorial ACF and Conditional Logic
I created an article and accompanying video where I used the Unlimited Elements Widget Creator. The Widget Creator is a feature of the Unlimited Elements addon pack. You need to know HTML and CSS, and maybe some JavaScript, depending on what you are trying to create. I created a simple sales banner that pulled the […]