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Find out why I believe it's THE very best WordPress theme for non-coder graphic designers. Find out why I believe it's THE very best WordPress theme for non-coder graphic designers. Skip to content. I understand GP being a theme and Elementor is a Page Builder and Genesis being a Framework. What theme should I install with the Elementor page builder? All the answers below! So you want to know which theme to use with Elementor? You’re not the first person to ask. These three themes were designed with Elementor in mind. Are they all free?
Today, dozens of page builders are available for WordPress. But only two of them provide a true, distraction-free, what-you-see-is-what-you-get experience with zero tech skills and imagination needed: Elementor Pro and Thrive Architect.
Are they the same? Not at all. While building your pages with both of them feels like flying first class, the purpose of the editors is different. Let us help you find the right one for your goals.
Although Elementor has a free version as well, we're comparing the prices of Elementor Pro and Thrive Architect.
The reason behind this is that Elementor Pro has more and better features than the free version, which makes the plugin more comparable to Thrive Architect.
- 30 Day Money Back Guarantee
- No Subscription
- One Year Of Premium Support
- Lifelong Plugin Updates
- 276 Landing Page Templates
- 30 Day Money Back Guarantee
No Subscription- One Year Of Premium Support
- One Year of Plugin Updates
- 100+ Landing Page Templates
At first glance, Elementor Pro seems to be the cheaper option, but there's one important difference between the two packages: Thrive Architect offers lifetime updates while Elementor Pro doesn't.
If you can't install the necessary updates for a plugin, it will stop being compatible with the other plugins you use and, eventually, with WordPress.
To get updates from Elementor after 12 months, you need to purchase the package again.
For Thrive Architect, you only have to purchase the plugin once and you'll be able to build your websites with it for as long as you want.
Let's have a look at what features each plugin offer
Thrive Architect | |
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Pre-Sales Support | |
One-time fee | |
Demo Can Be Downloaded Directly from WordPress | |
See Number and Location of Currently Active Installs | |
Knowledge Base and Tutorials | |
Drag and Drop Editing | |
Compatible with Any Official WordPress Theme | |
Landing Page Template Library | |
Save templates | |
Easy Search Among Elements | |
Edit built content with the backend WordPress Editor | |
Custom margins and paddings | |
Inline text editing | |
Elements hierarchy | |
TypeFocus / Text Animation | |
Save custom colors | |
Background section overlay | |
EMS API integrations | 1 (Mailchimp) |
Most of the features one plugin has to offer can be found in the other one, or the difference is tiny. Here's to recap the most important differences:
Elementor offers a free version. The free version is obviously way more limited than the pro version, but this is a great way to try the basic features of the plugin for as long as you want. Thrive Architect gives you 30 risk free days after your purchase.
The Elementor landing page templates can also be used as page content templates which can come in handy when you build a homepage or an about page. In Thrive Architect, this feature is yet to be released.
Thrive Architect is big on email marketing, which is a powerful way to keep in touch with your future clients.
The plugin offers API integration with 23 email marketing providers, but you can also connect your webinar and email delivery services to the plugin with an API key.
In Elementor, you need to install a separate plugin if you want to connect an email marketing service other than Mailchimp.
The Thrive Themes family has many more plugins other than Thrive Architect - there are plugins to build opt-in forms, limited time campaigns, quizzes, images and so on.
By having different plugins within the same brand you can make sure that all the plugins are a 100% compatible with each other and no matter how many of them you use, they won't cause any conflict, something that is otherwise common for WordPress plugins.
What are the elements can you use to build your posts and pages with?
Thrive Architect |
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Text element |
Animated Headline |
Image Carousel |
Alert Message |
Columns |
Content Box/Container |
Click to Tweet / Blockquote |
Content Reveal |
Countdown Evergreen |
Custom HTML |
Disqus Comments |
Facebook Comments |
Fill Counter |
Google Maps |
Icon Box |
Lead Generation |
Number Counter |
Portfolio |
Slides |
Social Share |
Spacer Element |
Styled List / Icon List |
Excel-style Table |
Tabs |
Toggle |
WordPress Content |
WordPress Login |
Menu Anchor Element |
It's easy to spot the big difference between the types of elements these visual editors offer. The most basic elements (text, image, columns, button) can be found in both plugins, but the rest make it clear that Thrive Architect and Elementor Pro are often not used for the same purposes.
Elementor offers many elements for portfolio-like pages and online presence, e.g. image gallery, portfolio, social media like and embed.
Thrive Architect on the other hand focuses more on helping you build a truly conversion optimized website. It's the ultimate tool for online marketing.
Elements like the evergreen countdown for limited time offers, star rating and table for product reviews, table of content for quick scanning, social share option for better engagement, or a more elaborate pricing table all help you achieve these marketing goals faster and with less work.
That being said, you can achieve a conversion optimized website with Elementor and a porfolio-like page with Thrive Architect, but the process of building these types of pages are way easier and quicker with the 'right' editor.
A landing page is a page on your website with a single purpose - usually that of converting your visitors to subcribers, buyers or fans. Pre-designed templates can be of big help.
Thrive Architect |
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Coming Soon Page |
One Step Lead Generation |
Confirmation Page |
Thank You Page |
Course Page |
Homepage |
Product Launch |
Sales Page |
Video Page |
About Page |
Both plugins offer a wide range of templates, but slighly different ones.
Thrive Architect provides a pre-designed template for every step in the sales funnel: from the first visit encounter with your brand to becoming a satisfied client. The primary goal of the template is successful marketing and increasing your conversion rate.
Elementor offers less conversion focused templates and focuses more on online presence (with the exception of the Ecommerce templates).
What we liked here is the ability to use the templates as a regular page content template as well, not just as a landing page, so the template library includes templates for regular pages too. This feature is yet to come in Thrive Architect.
In Thrive Architect, you can convert your page into a landing page without leaving the front-end editor. The page automatically turns into the right size.
In Elementor Pro, this process is somewhat longer: you need to go back to the WordPress backend and switch your page template to Elementor Canvas before you get started with landing page building.
Can you really do everything?
There are no surprises with Thrive Architect: what you see is truly what you get.
When you edit an element, there are no windows opening on top of each other, the editing experience is a 100% distraction-free. You apply every setting and change in the sidebar menu.
You fully customize every element with sliders, applying the exact color, size, shape, font and space and column width without having to count pixels.
The text editing is brough to a whole new level: Thrive Architect works with inline editing, being the first visual editor that introduced this feature. You can change any part of the text, even if you just want to change the color or size of a single letter.
Every element can be placed wherever you want, simply by dragging and dropping it - whether its above, below or next to another element.
You can add any new element with a simple click, unique to Thrive Architect.
Elementor Pro has it all...almost.
Similarly to Thrive Architect, the editing happens exclusively in the sidebar menu, making sure that you are not at all distracted while you're editing.
Text can be edited either inline or in the sidebar menu, inside the well-known WordPress text editor. The changes you can apply to the text right away are somewhat limited, for example you can't select only a piece of text to modify.
Every color, shape, size, font type, column widht and space can be changed the way you want, most of it with the help of sliders.
The elements can be organized into columns, but to achieve this, you need to set up the columns beforehand.
Without setting them up, you can only organize the elements vertically: only above and below one other.
You can delete some of the elements with the Delete button on your keyboard.
Enough of theory! Watch how the editors really work in action
Rearranging Elements
Columns
Adding Space to Elements
Rearranging Elements
Columns
Adding Space to Elements
Elementor Pro
Without a doubt, you will be able to build beautifully designed, fully customizable pages for your WordPress website with Elementor Pro. Most changes can be applied within seconds and you get free hand over what you want to achieve.
Although, with a little workaround, you can achieve practically anything you want, the main focus of the page templates and elements (or widgets, in Elementor lingo) is online presence, portfolio, building a profile for yourself and for your business.
If this is your main goal and you don't need to rely on your website to get clients and customers, you will enjoy using Elementor.
Although Thrive Architect was without doubt made for successful marketing, the elements and templates are also well-designed. You can make sure that your pages will not only be conversion focused, but also pleasing for the eye.
The main goal of all the elements and landing page templates is to help solopreneurs, entrepreneurs and businesses build a website that will convert more visitors into leads, clients, customers, and lifetime fans. This is important for any business, but essential for businesses that fully operate online.
If your goal is to get more engagement and clients, Thrive Architect is the right tool for you.
Build beautiful, fully conversion optimized website and watch your business grow.
Updated: January 2, 2018
Filed Under: Elementor Tutorials
Filed Under: Elementor Tutorials
Over 400k people love and use Elementor on their website because it's the best page builder for WordPress. Also the fact that it is free might have something to do with it ?
The problem is not all themes are able to give you those beautiful full-width rows and remove the page title by default.
This need prompted me to contact Brainstorm Force, my favorite WordPress developer, and ask them to solve this problem.
The accepted and created this amazing free plugin.
Elementor
How To Make Any WordPress Theme Compatible With Elementor
Welcome back to another video my name is Adam
from WPCrafter.com where I make videos about
from WPCrafter.com where I make videos about
WordPress for non-techies just like me and
in this video on the show you how you can
in this video on the show you how you can
get Elementor a very popular page builder
to work with anything pretty much so what
to work with anything pretty much so what
happens typically when you want to use a page
builder on a theme if there isn’t some direct
builder on a theme if there isn’t some direct
integration or some specific integration you
don’t get that beautiful fullwidth row and
don’t get that beautiful fullwidth row and
you there’s extra things added to pages like
a title and margins and padding’s and it could
a title and margins and padding’s and it could
be a bit annoying but there is a new solution
that just came out to that works with virtually
that just came out to that works with virtually
any page builder and virtually any theme and
there is direct Elementor integration with
there is direct Elementor integration with
it and it’s pretty amazing so this is the
problem that you run into so I’ve got a page
problem that you run into so I’ve got a page
right here created and I want to use Elementor
with it so you just create your page and then
with it so you just create your page and then
you click on edit with Elementor and this
is what happens were going to be contained
is what happens were going to be contained
into this area so if I click on add a new
template just to make this quick and simple
template just to make this quick and simple
and here let me choose not that template because
that’s a pro template I’m just go ahead include
that’s a pro template I’m just go ahead include
choose this one click on insert this is what
happens when you want to use Elementor with
happens when you want to use Elementor with
a theme that doesn’t have specific support
for Elementor there’s going to be this frame
for Elementor there’s going to be this frame
around your neck to get the full with aspect
of Elementor see right here I’m stuck with
of Elementor see right here I’m stuck with
my page title I’ve got all this space here
in this space off to the left into the right
in this space off to the left into the right
and this is not at all leveraging the beauty
of what you can create with Elementor so looks
of what you can create with Elementor so looks
fine when the edges of the container of the
same color as a content right here but these
same color as a content right here but these
pictures it just doesn’t look right that’s
not how it’s supposed to look well the good
not how it’s supposed to look well the good
news is is there is a solution for this so
let me get out of this him to go ahead and
let me get out of this him to go ahead and
click on save and then I’m in a go back into
the dashboard and show you how you can get
the dashboard and show you how you can get
Elementor to work with virtually any theme
that you wanted to work with so I’m to go
that you wanted to work with so I’m to go
to plug-ins and there’s a new plug-in that
just came out it’s called a full with page
just came out it’s called a full with page
templates and actually I had a part to play
in this plug-in I wanted a plug-in that I
in this plug-in I wanted a plug-in that I
can use any page builder with any theme and
I got together with someone that is an amazing
I got together with someone that is an amazing
developer they have several very successful
plug-ins they sold hundreds of thousands of
plug-ins they sold hundreds of thousands of
copies of their plug-ins and they said you
know what Adam will make this plug-in will
know what Adam will make this plug-in will
give it away for free and it’s right here
it’s called full with page templates for any
it’s called full with page templates for any
theme and page builder so just go ahead and
download install and activate this plug-in
download install and activate this plug-in
so now what happens is when you go to create
a page you can have this new option available
a page you can have this new option available
right here so where it’s going to say templates
and when you go on the drop-down there’s these
and when you go on the drop-down there’s these
three new options goal with full with no header
footer and no sidebar so full with is going
footer and no sidebar so full with is going
to make it look how I intended on that page
the title is going to be removed it’s going
the title is going to be removed it’s going
to be stretched full with their skin to be
no margins or anything like that the next
no margins or anything like that the next
one will also do that but it will remove the
header and the footer so it’s ideal for landing
header and the footer so it’s ideal for landing
pages now you can create beautiful landing
pages for any theme using Elementor and last
pages for any theme using Elementor and last
is you there’s going to be no sidebar so this
will give you great integration now there
will give you great integration now there
are other ways of doing this by the way but
there’s nothing as simple as this it’s three
there’s nothing as simple as this it’s three
clicks and you’ve got the perfect integration
so for example on my website I use a page
so for example on my website I use a page
builder but I had to have some custom CSS
written that I have to add to each and every
written that I have to add to each and every
page it was complicated getting that to work
and there’s just so many lines of code and
and there’s just so many lines of code and
there are some other solutions to that require
40 different options in your clicking around
40 different options in your clicking around
the find the right combo to get it to work
this is the perfect three click solution to
this is the perfect three click solution to
integrate Elementor with essentially any theme
so let me show your miniatures this fullwidth
so let me show your miniatures this fullwidth
template I want to click on updates and then
I’m in to go to that page I created so actually
I’m in to go to that page I created so actually
let me refresh as you can see the perfect
integration so now you see my title is gone
integration so now you see my title is gone
you see that margin appear is gone now the
image stretch perk stretches perfectly from
image stretch perk stretches perfectly from
left to right and it’s from top to bottom
and then you could see at the bottom here
and then you could see at the bottom here
the end of my Elementor page meets perfectly
with the footer of the theme so if I didn’t
with the footer of the theme so if I didn’t
want the header and the footer I would’ve
chosen no header footer like that let me do
chosen no header footer like that let me do
an update and I’ll do a refresh to show you
that so right now you see I have this header
that so right now you see I have this header
I just refresh the page and that header is
gone so this is ideal for any kind of landing
gone so this is ideal for any kind of landing
page that you want and I scrolled all the
way down to my footer is gone as well so this
way down to my footer is gone as well so this
is the perfect solution to anyone that wants
to integrate Elementor with any theme or use
to integrate Elementor with any theme or use
Elementor on an existing website to create
some landing pages and is also a better solution
some landing pages and is also a better solution
because it’s in a plug-in so if you were using
save the generate press theme fantastic theme
save the generate press theme fantastic theme
it works perfectly with just about any page
builder but you have all these checkboxes
builder but you have all these checkboxes
that you have to check in order to get it
to look like this but what happens if you
to look like this but what happens if you
wanted to stop using that theme and use a
different theme it it’s not been a kind of
different theme it it’s not been a kind of
calm go with you unless you’re using a plug-in
like this so right now if you using generate
like this so right now if you using generate
press in order to get the beautiful full width
and then you want to change it you lose it
and then you want to change it you lose it
all so this is really the one plug-in that
you want to install on every website that
you want to install on every website that
you’re using Elementor on so that down the
road if you want to try a different theme
road if you want to try a different theme
you can easily do that and not lose these
beautiful pages that you’re designing in Elementor
beautiful pages that you’re designing in Elementor
not lose the perfect look of it without the
margins of the padding’s in the titles and
margins of the padding’s in the titles and
all of that kinda stuff to just be one click
to switch themes so essentially now when people
to switch themes so essentially now when people
asked me hey what are themes that work with
Elementor it’s an easy answer if you use this
Elementor it’s an easy answer if you use this
plug-in it’s essentially going to be anything
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