Horrible, horrible development

I’ve been using elementor for almost a year now, and the changes in this code and plugin seriously make me question the development and future of this plugin.

Plugin developers have no clue, when it comes to implementation of features, refuse to follow standards, force everyone to use their ‘ideas’ as if they were all that great, and don’t follow any sort of proper update path, which, of course, ends up breaking all kinds of stuff. Some examples:

The standard when it comes to two factor authentication is TOTP. Unfortunately, developers refuse to listen to their users and force individuals to use email 2fa, which has a plethora of issues in and of itself, and a number of places where things can go wrong, thereby locking individuals out of accounts. Follow proper standards

Over the past year, numerous “updates” have been made to code. Usually, this would be good, but developers simply refuse to adhere to any sense of coding standard, which causes sites to break, because, well, no standards were followed.

Support is about as clueless as you can expect outsourced support to be. If it aint in their magic computer box of answers, well, you get shrugged off with things like “I can’t duplicate that” or “I don’t know” or “that’s not our problem” (seriously, that was a reply).

Elementor COULD be a great plugin, if they got their stuff together, started listening to clients that had a clue what they’re doing, and followed standards. Instead? Well, we have higher prices, broken websites, and account lockouts, because they DON’T do any of that.