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So I have about equal the experience with Elementor and Divi, maybe a bit more with the latter. I’m thinking about making a new site soon (it will have to do with blogposting and booking appointments). Would you advise me to use Elementor or Divi? And why? Or is it just a matter of personal preference? Thx in advance
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Personally, I would move to Astra Pro and Spectra Pro block. It is a bit of a learning curve, but so much better than either of your options.
I’d probably go with Elementor Pro, because it’s more popular, so you’re more likely to find solutions to any problems that may come up while you’re building the site.
Build with Gutenberg and save yourself a lot of assets cleanup and work to speed things up.
As for Divi and Elementor: Both have a lot of bloat. Both are heavily used by agencies to pump out plenty of sites – so it can be done but it’s not worth the headaches if you have any development skill whatsoever.
Gutenberg is not difficult to learn, it’s easy to develop for, and 10/10 recommend from a speed perspective. Most of my team’s builds have little to no work necessary for site speed improvements out of the gate.
elementor is easy, i think
If you want to stay in a more traditional space, I recommend GeneratePress Pro.
You can build block based layouts.
Their Elements feature is pretty great, allowing you to build out content Elements with the block editor and hook them into your front end.
If you want to go with the modern approach, go full site editing with block patterns and custom blocks, either native or via ACF Blocks.
We usually work with Elementor, so that is what we would recommend.
Most frameworks and builders have a lot of flexibility. I would suggest to pick one and build all the sites you can with it. Every year maybe setup some time to know whats new in builders, maybe give them some test drives and see if it would be better for your productivity.
We try to avoid rethinking which builder or theme to use. We usually have a stack or base of all the things we usually need and go from there.
I’d recommend Gutenberg as well. It’s free, has faster loading time and will continue to improve in the future.
There are a lot of Gutenberg apologists here… use elementor or find someone w/ a template library
Between the two, Elementor. But there’s better tools now than both of those.
Bricks builder. But it’s gonna be a learning curve if you’ve only ever used Elementor and Divi.
If you make use of a lot of Elementor or Divi templates, stick with one of them. Divi is also getting a great update to version 5 in the near(?) future where they’ve really sped up the tool and produced code, their website features a free demo to try.
If you’d rather build things more on your own, take a look at Bricks Builder.