UPDATE to Is Elementor the new WordPress Dashboard?

Update: Oct 29th, 2024
The pro version is not a professional level plugin. Updates are still causing huge CSS issues rendering sites unreadable. This is manifesting as downtime in site monitors. Blocking updates is worse amateurish. No other plugin causes this error:
Unable to find an appropriate plugin version name = ‘elementor-pro’ sourceId = ‘2’ version = ‘3.24.1’
But Elementor Pro has been causing this for nearly a year. So dropping a couple more stars while trying to understand why I have paid so much for so long.

Elementor is causing more and more issues. Too many to write about as I still have to click ten times through the morass of pop ups and that’s all the time I’m willing to spend.

If you can’t allow updates to work properly and you can’t fix the breakages when a site does update you may want to find work that inspires you to do better.

These issues have now been normalized in the wordpress ecosystem. As I wrote to Ma.tt some years ago. WordPress is being destroyed from the inside.

<!– wp:paragraph –> <p class=””>Too many clicks – Dialogs may cause ham.<br><br>Login to my client site to correct a misspelled word.<br>Update Dashboard opens to unexpectedly display:<br>1 click to close ELEMENTOR dialog<br>1 click to close regular ELEMENTOR version dialog<br>1 click to run the regular ELEMENTOR version updater<br>1 click to run the pro ELEMENTOR version updater</p> <!– /wp:paragraph –> <!– wp:paragraph –> <p class=””>1 click to plugins. “2” indicates at top that 2 ELEMENTOR plugins are out of date. Only ELEMENTOR plugins are out of date.<br>1 click per ELEMENTOR checkbox to select.<br>1 click to run updater.</p> <!– /wp:paragraph –> <!– wp:paragraph –> <p class=””>2 more clicks plugin page because “The version was updated successfully!” Includes link to trouble shooter if ELEMENTOR update site breaks.</p> <!– /wp:paragraph –> <!– wp:paragraph –> <p class=””>3 screen and 10 clicks later it becomes safe to work on website. Every few days. I might want ham to come. Because yum.</p> <!– /wp:paragraph –> <!– wp:paragraph –> <p class=””>Then once I get into the editor a blue ELEMENTOR notification displays.<br>1 click to open dialog and read the ELEMENTOR advertisement title to be sure site isn’t broken.<br>1 click to close dialog and go back to work.</p> <!– /wp:paragraph –>

Update Dec. 18th, 2024
I came back to see if there was any way I could reduce the stars for my review.

Elementor is total sh!t.
At this point, I’m thinking of using AI for everything. I need to get away from the now dozen clicks required to clear elementor from my dashboard. It’s beyond bloatware. It’s fatcrapware.

Specifically, you won’t notice how bad it is until you’ve been using it awhile. The issues are in the cache handling. When they update the plugin there’s a 90% chance it will break at least one website. Fixing it entails going back and starting from scratch on the issue that had to be worked around the first time. They are releasing beta software. It’s super upsetting since I’ve been a good customer. Now that I had to repay again, I will try to share my pain as often as possible. They won’t care but you should.

Login a site running elementurd and you’ll click 12 times before you can work on the site. For the first time I’m looking for an alternative to wordpress.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by deleted. Reason: Everything seems broken. Too many unresolved issues
• This topic was modified 3 years ago by deleted. Reason: Reduce Stars and provide an experience update
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