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Hello! I am learning to use WordPress and I see that a lot of people recommend Elementor, and they say there’s a free version. But, when I try to download it, I need to have WordPress creator (which is around 40$ per month. So is Elementor this expensive to get?
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Don’t use WordPress.com! Use literally any other hosting company. Read the pinned post in this sub.
WordPress com is a company. You don’t need to buy some membership to use wordpress.
Buy any hosting you want, all of them has wordpress installer. If there is not, you can download it from wordpress.org and install manually.
And yes elementor is free for me . There is some paywall on beautiful widgets, but you can find them on other elementor widget plugins like eakits, royal elementor etc.
If you know some css you don’t need pay anything for business websites. I made more than 50 websites with elementor as freelancer and I never bought elementor pro.
I’ve paid for some themes and plugins (especially for e-commerce websites) to fulfill the client needs but not elementor.
Edit: I really don’t get why I am getting downvoted for this. Did I give some wrong information? If you need to buy 100$ of plugins to create simple 4 page business websites, It is not my problem.
In this instance, you get exactly what you pay for!
It is free but you need to host your WordPress site on a server.
Also, for the full features of Elementor you will have to pay either 59$ per year or 99$ per year (for all features)
If your serious about creating a website, try and follow this guide 😊
https://www.marcus-aurelius.com/build-a-website-from-scratch/
So Elementor is not free, but WordPress is. I see everyone else here helped explain the difference between [.](https://Wordpress.com)com and .org, so you should know where to start with that.
Elementor is a page builder plugin that you can buy access to and install on your WordPress site. It adds a custom UI on top of WordPress that allows you to build your site using the drag-and-drop components Elementor comes with (they call them widgets). So let’s say you want to add a block of text on your website. Elementor has a widget for text that you drag onto your page layout, wherever you want it, then allows you to customize the text how you choose. Font family, font weight, font style, color, etc. It’s basically just a GUI for building with HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript that allows you to do most of your building without having to code anything.
For WordPress, Elementor is one of the more popular page builder plugins out there. They have a $59/year option that allows you to install it to one website and gives you access to the most common features and 50 of their widgets. The next step up is the $99/year option that gives you access to all of Elementor’s features and all of their widgets, plus allows you to install it on up to 3 websites. I’d personally recommend the $99/year plan as it allows for additional customization to your code and CSS, but pick what works best for you.
Also, be aware that WordPress just dropped a new major version, 6.5. Most of the big name plugins out there will be caught up with compatibility with WordPress 6.5 pretty quickly, but there may be some that will take a while to be updated to work with it.
Good luck out there, and happy building!