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Thank you Trent, a very concise and informative overview of both. Interestingly I had a site built for me not knowing anything about page builders and with limited experience myself of website building. I had made it clear to the developer that I would need to edit the site from time to time. For me then WP Bakery was going to be a chore and require me to update my knowledge. I had picked Elementor Pro for the job before seeing your video, but you definitely reenforced the changeover. Thanks again, excellent review.
Thank you very much! I am not sure if im gonna need to watch more of you videos but I just subscribed anyway because you explained this so well and you only have 600+ subscribers yet.
I am using Elementor and I came here because my friend said I should consider WpBakery. I'm staying. No ways man. Thank you for the video. Nearly made a terrible decision
same with me. kinda afraid I can't be free to do my design. but my friend told me that WP Bakery is good for our page speed and GTMetrix than Elementor, do you think so?
This video is incredibly well put together and easy to follow. Thanks for the insights. I'm looking at building my first site and deciding between themes that use either WP Bakery or Elementor... This made the decision for me.
When I saw the title I thought is was about baking something (lol) and it seemed odd because of your channel, but seeing it love the perspective great work Trent!!
I'm a Pro subscriber to Elementor and Divi. Both are great! I currently only use Brizy, which is recent and growing fast. Easy to create and develop websites. Clean, creative, I find it perfect for web design. It has uncomplicated models and blocks! About WP Bakery, ex-Visual Composer, watching your video I gave up.
This is very informative Trent, where were you when I was setting up my site!? Really appreciate you sharing this. Also love the quality of your video, good work!
Thank you Trent for sharing about these templates. I tried one time Elementor and it felt really easy to use. I appreciate your comparison with WPBakery!
Very good content. Very helpful factors in making a decision on which is best for you.. I like how you share areas to avoid (how some sites will make it live before you are ready when trying to preview)...
Thanks for clearing that up, I've a site which was built for me using bakery but I've found it a real pain to make changes, I'm going to rebuild it using Elementor.
Honestly thatnk so much for this video! I've been using WP Bakery since I started building my website 3 years ago and I never really loved it! Took me hours to understand how to move a bloody text from the left to the centre and simple things like that! I though it was becuase of my lack of knowledge but hey, that's why I'm paying for a page builder, so i don't have to stress about it! Now I'm debating if I should start using elementor, but I don't really know how to do it without messing up every page's layout 😭
Thanks, Tania! So happy it helped you out. :). I totally agree - WPBakery is frustrating to say the least. They contacted me after I made this video to tell me they have a new software that's supposed to be a big upgrade, so I'll check that one out as well, but as I said in the video - Elementor is hard to beat right now. The one downside of switching is that you have to rebuild your pages. There isn't an easy way to migrate from one to the other. But I'd say just grab the lite version for now (free) and see how it feels to recreate your homepage from there. If it's easy for you, then you have your answer! :)
hi, This video happen to me as a blessing in disguise I was just about to buy Salient theme and l aready had elementor experience thinking it would be on bonus to know WP bakery but after seeing your video I agree with you that it is a unessesaary hastle....Thanks heaps.
Getting a lot of Divi users! I’ll have to make a video about it haha. Divi is good. I’d put it between these two. Somewhat less user friendly than elementor but way better than wpbakery
Hey, thanks for the question! To be honest I’m not sure why you’d want to. It’s more likely to cause a lot of hassle than it is to provide you the best of both worlds. Both of these builders effectively take over the page they’re building, so if you try to build content with WPBakery and edit it on elementor (or vice versa), it won’t work because the builder won’t recognize the infrastructure of the competing builder. CAN you install both? Yes, but ultimately you’d only be able to use one builder at a time so you’re just jumping indiscriminately between builders without any material gain for doing so. Hope that answers your question :)
Thank you so much for these tips. I have a client and their site was used creating Bakery and I have taken over management of this site but I se elementor which is more straight forward, is it possible to reset everything on this site and then use elementor as the page builder? We are trying to avoid getting another site.
Sorry for the delayed response! Is it possible, yes. But I'm going to tell you ahead of time it's an absolute mess. You're really not far from just rebuilding the entire site using elementor.
@@TrentKennelly Actually, I don't mind redoing the pages, I just need to find out if I can reset the same site, get Elementor then start working. And thank you so much for your response.
Si, Elementor es mejor que WP Bakery solo agregar que también los "Deploy" son más lentos en este último. Un punto a favor sería que WP Bakery podría darte mejor aprendizaje en el uso de CSS y HTML ya que por su rigidez te obliga a tener que aprender a cómo editar esa parte modificando el código.
Hi, Pablo! Fair enough point - you're right it would potentially help you learn HTML/CSS better, but at the same time - isn't that against the whole reason these builders exist? If we want to make website building easier for everyone, then rigidity is not the way to go. What do you think?
Hi! This video is very helpful. Thank you! What would you recommend looking out for if you are migrating a website from WP Bakery to Elementor? I'm migrating a two page website from WPBakery to Elementor. I'm concerned about my client's SEO and ranking being effected. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I've got a beautiful wp bakery template, but every change the client has required has been a nightmare. I would never use it again, not even if they pay me for.
Nice vid Trent. I downloaded a theme from monsterone and it uses wpbakery. Worst mistake ever. You nailed it with the various issues. Thanks for bringing some clarity.
Appreciate it! Sometimes the theme is the problem ... but WPBakery definitely has its share of problems itself. They're definitely at an "update or die" moment
Sorry for the delay but great question! I didn’t test this, but according to woocart, wpbakery is about 15% faster than elementor. So it looks like you’re right!
Thanks for the question! Last I checked it wasn’t possible to migrate your site without rebuilding it. But I want to just add a disclaimer that it’s been quite a while since I checked up on that
Hi Trent. It was really helpful. coming to that elementor is better. I have a question. Can I have two page buildrs in one website or one theme? Wpbakery and Elementor both? The reason I asked is that, I have a client's website that has wpbakery installed already on Porto theme and have some pages built there on it. Now I have to make some new pages on that website and hav to do its SEO. So, can I use elementor for making new pages on it? without removing the wpbakery?
Hey, thanks so much! Glad to hear you found it helpful. There isn’t a really clean way to do this. You typically can only have one page builder per Wordpress instance. That isn’t to say having two installed is impossible, but they’re effectively two different ecosystems. You’ll be recreating very asset, template, etc to realign between the two systems. Not to mention that this will likely slow your site was down. The best suggestion I can give to avoid that is to create a second Wordpress instance on a subdomain. But that isn’t a clean solution since you’ll be missing every customization from the current setup.
Thanks so much! I haven’t heard of Brizy but I’ll definitely check it out now! As to the question about Arvada and similar themes with builders - I’m typically not a fan. They aren’t flexible or easy to work with. Specifically I seem to recall Avada having this issue (it’s been awhile though)
@@TrentKennelly Great! I'd like to know your thoughts about it when you get there. For what I've heard, Brizy is 100% frontend without the extra menus Elementor has on screen, more faster, and almost equally on pricing and features.
Great question! I just double checked to make sure I didn't miss an update haha. My answer is still no. Gutenberg is constantly at least 2-5 years behind the competition, and I have to say that, while this is WAY better than it used to be, it's still worth your money to grab Elementor because it's much more intuitive and saves you time you could be spending on other things in your business
In Wpbakery having save template option, and we can use that Designs/Element wherever we needs to use on click. In elementor Not 100% sure this features is available or not?
Hello, That is the video i was looking for. I bought a fancy theme for a website project which comes with WPB integrated, but it is really limited at all. I have to use just the feature of the themes and the few from WPB and that’s all. I am felling frustrated because the theme is slowing the website speed drastically. What do you recommend to me. Build up again from zero the entire website or try to use another website builder together with WPB for the other features of the website. I’ve seen that some people use Visual Composer with WPB to insert the features missing. I try to use Elementor to design the other pages of the website but since the fancy fucking theme comes with WPB it gives many errors and slowdown the web. Hope you can give me some hopes.
Building from zero sucks, but it helps to keep everything homogenized. I’d suggest for now that you use elementor for anything new and slowly move everything else away from WPB. No doubt it’s a pain though. Sorry you’re going through it :(
@@TrentKennelly when I say slow I'm speaking of the work flow... Not the system. I can create a full blown page in 3 minutes where as in Elementor that same page would take 3X as long to design. I hate having to click text fields 3 and 4 times to edit text. Little things like that. Having to click back and forth between the live preview and the edit pane. I just started using Elementor literally a week ago so I'm still not familiar with all the shortcuts. It's growing on me though.
@@commiezombie2477 ah gotcha! Yeah, there are definitely some UI things that can be improved. Text editing is a great example - drives me nuts that sometimes you can use the side panel field to edit text and others you have to edit in the editable webpage itself. And you just have to know the difference. But overall in my personal opinion it’s worlds away from WPB
Totally agree, Elementor is where it's at. I hadn't heard about the new VC, good for them! I think they just recently raised their prices as well, so we'll see how it plays out.
I buy a lot of WordPress templates and it seems some of the best templates come with wpbakery.r. I wonder why. I am not really a fan of either and dont really like bloated packages that come littered with stuff i may never use.
My theory there is that WPBakery was the industry standard for a LONG time until Elementor came around. So most templates still cater to it somewhat. Otherwise - totally agree, there's so much bloatware in a few of these haha
Been using VC and WPBakery for many many years now. Was contemplating switch to Elementor but couldn't justify paying stupid money for subscription getting almost nothing extra in return. Elementor is a resource hog and HTML it generates is actualy more ugly than WPBakery.
Yeah, but it does make some sense when you consider that they’re serving both smaller markets (people with one business) and website building firms at the same time. Most people have no reason to buy higher than the & $49 package
Damn, i wish i've see this a few days earlier. I just paid 70 dollars for a fancy theme including wpbackery and yes it seem clucky to use. Especcially since i didnt use wp in 8 years. For a somple site like mine i probably could havr the free version of elementor which i already had installed as a plugin but nooooo i had to get fancy. Well, i got schooled through my wallet.
Oof, sorry to hear it! WPB is still fine, elementor just really beats it haha. Though I think the decision is whether you’re really going to stick to one or the other, because if you decide to switch it’s really not easy.
@@TrentKennelly hi Trent, a friend send me a *free* version of elementor. He says it's the pro version. Is it possible for me to switch from wpbackery to elementor and still use the theme? Possibly without losing my progress so far. (Backed up ofcourse) Or can i use them both at the same time? Thx in advance.
It's so funny how these days everyone wants to explain how to make wordpress do the most complex stuff, but there are no resources explaining how to use it for blogging, the thing it was primarily created for. I don't want to make an ecommerce site, i don't want to make a hotel booking site, I just wanna make a blog!!! sighs
Their pricing didn’t really change for lower plans though. Are/were you on a plan with more than 3 sites? If so then it changed. If not I believe it’s the same
Thank you so much for the feedback! When you say "another" stressful element - were there other things about this video that got to you? Always open to improving my content. :)
hmm sorry.: my mother tongue is German. I mean, "a" stressful element - Thats my personal experience when I watch explanatory videos with music in the background. Thank you for your content!!!
For someone that hasn't touched either of them, with Elementor you can figure out because it is intuitive but WPBakery, F***. It is not my first rodeo with Page Builders and you just can't figure out WP Bakery, it is not intuitive. Right now I'm working on a client site since yesterday and can't figure out this crap! I Hate WP Bakery! 🤮
Lol good one. Yes I have affiliate links, but that’s honestly just good practice. I’ve actually used both extensively and find Elementor superior in a lot of ways. Though I hear they’ve come out with a newer version of wpbakery I haven’t tested yet. (Edited for clarity about what new version there was)
@@TrentKennelly I prefer WP Bakery, I find elementor restrictive especially with backend editor. I feel overall WP Bakery is much easier to use vs elementor, as you mentioned needs some features upgrading otherwise I cant really complain.
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I never heard of these, thank you for the in depth introduction! I use Dive from Elegant Themes, I love the drop & drag features:)
Ah I’m not familiar! But if it works that’s ultimately all that matters. :)
It's like you read my mind! I have a client who's been debating between these options! Will definitely be sharing your video! :)
Haha happy to help the decision!
I've got a client who's got both......... 😂
Thank you Trent, a very concise and informative overview of both. Interestingly I had a site built for me not knowing anything about page builders and with limited experience myself of website building. I had made it clear to the developer that I would need to edit the site from time to time. For me then WP Bakery was going to be a chore and require me to update my knowledge. I had picked Elementor Pro for the job before seeing your video, but you definitely reenforced the changeover.
Thanks again, excellent review.
That’s great to hear thanks so much!! Definitely elementor is worlds away from bakery. And getting further by the day haha
Thank you very much! I am not sure if im gonna need to watch more of you videos but I just subscribed anyway because you explained this so well and you only have 600+ subscribers yet.
Appreciate it so much! Happy to have you sub. :). If there’s something you’d like me to talk about, feel free to let me know!
I am using Elementor and I came here because my friend said I should consider WpBakery. I'm staying. No ways man. Thank you for the video. Nearly made a terrible decision
Haha glad you checked! Definitely agree that Elementor is far superior :)
same with me. kinda afraid I can't be free to do my design. but my friend told me that WP Bakery is good for our page speed and GTMetrix than Elementor, do you think so?
This video is incredibly well put together and easy to follow. Thanks for the insights. I'm looking at building my first site and deciding between themes that use either WP Bakery or Elementor... This made the decision for me.
Hi, Taylor! Really glad to hear that, thank you! Let me know if you have any questions about the setup. :)
Always great to learn something new, especially from someone expert in that! 😎 Great video, Trent! 🙌
Appreciate that so much!!
This is such a great explanation. I've heard of both of these and never knew the differences
So happy to hear that! Glad I could give you a frame of reference. :)
When I saw the title I thought is was about baking something (lol) and it seemed odd because of your channel, but seeing it love the perspective great work Trent!!
HAH! I mean, I can back some cookies? People like those. But a whole channel on that I don't have. 😂
I'm a Pro subscriber to Elementor and Divi. Both are great! I currently only use Brizy, which is recent and growing fast. Easy to create and develop websites. Clean, creative, I find it perfect for web design. It has uncomplicated models and blocks!
About WP Bakery, ex-Visual Composer, watching your video I gave up.
I've heard really great things about Brizy! Thinking of getting it just so I can do a review haha.
I am a beginner and have been using both in different sites. I agree with you in all aspect. Unbiased.
Glad to hear it! There are definitely benefits to both, but I’m a fan of elementor for sure haha
I had no idea which one was better. Thanks for your insight!
So happy to have provided it!
This is very informative Trent, where were you when I was setting up my site!? Really appreciate you sharing this. Also love the quality of your video, good work!
Appreciate this so much! I was on WPB before I moved to elementor, so I totally understand the pain haha. Thanks so much!
For easy pages and websites I go with Elementor. For great stuff, WPBakery is always my choice. I really don't like the Elementor speed.
Speed as in the site speed issues? It’s definitely their biggest weakness. Gotta say though… we are not aligned. I find the ux just so bad on bakery
Thank you Trent for sharing about these templates. I tried one time Elementor and it felt really easy to use. I appreciate your comparison with WPBakery!
Sure thing! Elementor is definitely quite easy to work with. :)
This is so incredibly helpful,, and I have a couple of people in my circle who would love this video. Thanks as always Trent!
Fantastic to hear, thanks so much!!
This is so informational! Thanks for these comparison, Trent!
So happy it helped you out! Any other platforms you've been wondering about?
Would you do a updated video? Because yes elementor is easy to use but it has so many problems
Appreciate it! Unfortunately this just isn’t the direction my channel is going in right now
Very good content. Very helpful factors in making a decision on which is best for you.. I like how you share areas to avoid (how some sites will make it live before you are ready when trying to preview)...
Thanks so much! Yeah, it’s really important to understand those little issues. They effect the whole.
Very comprehensive straightforward topic explanation. Great Video !.. thanks a lot !
Appreciate the feedback!! Happy to help. :)
Thanks for clearing that up, I've a site which was built for me using bakery but I've found it a real pain to make changes, I'm going to rebuild it using Elementor.
Awesome to hear! Let me know if you need any help. :)
Honestly thatnk so much for this video! I've been using WP Bakery since I started building my website 3 years ago and I never really loved it! Took me hours to understand how to move a bloody text from the left to the centre and simple things like that! I though it was becuase of my lack of knowledge but hey, that's why I'm paying for a page builder, so i don't have to stress about it! Now I'm debating if I should start using elementor, but I don't really know how to do it without messing up every page's layout 😭
Thanks, Tania! So happy it helped you out. :).
I totally agree - WPBakery is frustrating to say the least. They contacted me after I made this video to tell me they have a new software that's supposed to be a big upgrade, so I'll check that one out as well, but as I said in the video - Elementor is hard to beat right now.
The one downside of switching is that you have to rebuild your pages. There isn't an easy way to migrate from one to the other. But I'd say just grab the lite version for now (free) and see how it feels to recreate your homepage from there. If it's easy for you, then you have your answer! :)
hi, This video happen to me as a blessing in disguise I was just about to buy Salient theme and l aready had elementor experience thinking it would be on bonus to know WP bakery but after seeing your video I agree with you that it is a unessesaary hastle....Thanks heaps.
Idk wp bakery adding rows is pretty much as easy as it comes. You click the plus button and select Row.
Still, in my opinion, how it plays on the page is just a bit confusing. You prefer it to the elementor setup?
I heard about Elementor but not WP Bakery. SO interesting! Thank you so much
You’ve heard about the better alternative then haha. Glad it was interesting!
this is a great and reatlly well thought out comparison video for people who need to understand these web page builder tools!
Thank you so much! Yeah there’s a lot to consider haha
Thank you so much for your input - invaluable.
New Subscriber here. Great video Trent! Never heard of these but very interesting.
So great to have you! Are you a Wordpress user or something else?
i dont actually think i've ever used wpbakery. i think i'm only familiar with elementor so thank you for the side by side breakdown
That's ok, you're better off. Elementor is where it's at!
Dude. great video. You explained this so well. I feel more confident. Thanks.
That's so awesome, I'm glad it helped you out!
Really good comparisons! Always great to have options.
Thanks so much! Definitely good to consider the options
I love divi. How does that compare to these?
Getting a lot of Divi users! I’ll have to make a video about it haha. Divi is good. I’d put it between these two. Somewhat less user friendly than elementor but way better than wpbakery
Good comparison. Is it possible to use both? I'm more of a nerd and see that I would need both. I can't really find a definitive answer to this.
Hey, thanks for the question! To be honest I’m not sure why you’d want to. It’s more likely to cause a lot of hassle than it is to provide you the best of both worlds. Both of these builders effectively take over the page they’re building, so if you try to build content with WPBakery and edit it on elementor (or vice versa), it won’t work because the builder won’t recognize the infrastructure of the competing builder. CAN you install both? Yes, but ultimately you’d only be able to use one builder at a time so you’re just jumping indiscriminately between builders without any material gain for doing so. Hope that answers your question :)
Ohhhh something I need to look into and it's so interesting. I'm leaning to Elementor tbh
Elementor is definitely the way to go! I'm a huge fan. :)
You have so much knowledge about SO much Trent!
Haha thank you so much!! If it's business related, I'm all about it. :)
I appreciate the comparison videos ans the point system. Super clear and helpful.
Happy to hear it!
hello Trent thank you.
is there a possible and simple way to make a full transition from a site that is on wpbakery to a elementor? thank you!
I wish I could say yes but it’s really a pain in the butt. It’s worth it but man it makes you scared
To change solutions haha
Thank you so much for these tips. I have a client and their site was used creating Bakery and I have taken over management of this site but I se elementor which is more straight forward, is it possible to reset everything on this site and then use elementor as the page builder? We are trying to avoid getting another site.
Sorry for the delayed response! Is it possible, yes. But I'm going to tell you ahead of time it's an absolute mess. You're really not far from just rebuilding the entire site using elementor.
@@TrentKennelly Actually, I don't mind redoing the pages, I just need to find out if I can reset the same site, get Elementor then start working. And thank you so much for your response.
Si, Elementor es mejor que WP Bakery solo agregar que también los "Deploy" son más lentos en este último. Un punto a favor sería que WP Bakery podría darte mejor aprendizaje en el uso de CSS y HTML ya que por su rigidez te obliga a tener que aprender a cómo editar esa parte modificando el código.
Hi, Pablo! Fair enough point - you're right it would potentially help you learn HTML/CSS better, but at the same time - isn't that against the whole reason these builders exist? If we want to make website building easier for everyone, then rigidity is not the way to go. What do you think?
Hi! This video is very helpful. Thank you! What would you recommend looking out for if you are migrating a website from WP Bakery to Elementor? I'm migrating a two page website from WPBakery to Elementor. I'm concerned about my client's SEO and ranking being effected. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Great comparison, thank you Trent!
You got it!
Thanks a lot. I think I can kick out WP bakery as a beginer~`
Definitely a good plan haha
This is something new to me. Great info! Thanks for sharing!
Glad to introduce you to something new!
I really liked the explanation. Great video, keep it up
Super happy to hear this, thank you! Let me know if there's something else you'd like me to look at :)
I've got a beautiful wp bakery template, but every change the client has required has been a nightmare. I would never use it again, not even if they pay me for.
It's honestly so out of date and clunky it's exhausting.
I agree, thanks for the video.
You got it!
hi there dear Trent - awesome: BTW - can you do some thing regarding the WP Version 6.1 and the new Gutenberg - things!? This would be great.🙏😊👍🏻😳♥
Thanks for this! It’s on the list haha
This video is productive. It helped me make informed decision. Thanks
Really happy to hear that, Chukwuma!
Nice vid Trent. I downloaded a theme from monsterone and it uses wpbakery. Worst mistake ever. You nailed it with the various issues. Thanks for bringing some clarity.
Appreciate it! Sometimes the theme is the problem ... but WPBakery definitely has its share of problems itself. They're definitely at an "update or die" moment
I should have searched for this before I bought WP Bakery. trying to use it made me search for something else. Thank you
If only I’d been there sooner! It honestly drives me nuts haha
@@TrentKennelly lol I still bought elementor
What about the speed of the site once it's done? I think that in that sense wpbakery is better optimized. What do you think? Greetings from Argentina
Sorry for the delay but great question! I didn’t test this, but according to woocart, wpbakery is about 15% faster than elementor. So it looks like you’re right!
which finally you use then? still with wpbakery to achieve the best optimization or elementor?
Awesome video. Thank you
Appreciate it!!
Love from India
Much love!
I already have a site that I paid to get it started it's WP Bakery. Is it possible to change to Elementor with out messing up my website
Thanks for the question! Last I checked it wasn’t possible to migrate your site without rebuilding it. But I want to just add a disclaimer that it’s been quite a while since I checked up on that
Super informative as always!!
Appreciate it so much!
Hi Trent. It was really helpful. coming to that elementor is better. I have a question. Can I have two page buildrs in one website or one theme? Wpbakery and Elementor both? The reason I asked is that, I have a client's website that has wpbakery installed already on Porto theme and have some pages built there on it. Now I have to make some new pages on that website and hav to do its SEO. So, can I use elementor for making new pages on it? without removing the wpbakery?
Hey, thanks so much! Glad to hear you found it helpful. There isn’t a really clean way to do this. You typically can only have one page builder per Wordpress instance. That isn’t to say having two installed is impossible, but they’re effectively two different ecosystems. You’ll be recreating very asset, template, etc to realign between the two systems. Not to mention that this will likely slow your site was down. The best suggestion I can give to avoid that is to create a second Wordpress instance on a subdomain. But that isn’t a clean solution since you’ll be missing every customization from the current setup.
Great stuff. What about Brizy vs Elementor? And is it better to work with these builders or something like Avada that has it's own builder inside?
Thanks so much! I haven’t heard of Brizy but I’ll definitely check it out now!
As to the question about Arvada and similar themes with builders - I’m typically not a fan. They aren’t flexible or easy to work with. Specifically I seem to recall Avada having this issue (it’s been awhile though)
@@TrentKennelly Great! I'd like to know your thoughts about it when you get there. For what I've heard, Brizy is 100% frontend without the extra menus Elementor has on screen, more faster, and almost equally on pricing and features.
@@gabrielsj awesome I’ll let you know when I do it!! I love testing new tools haha
Do you think that guten berg is still not good enough with the recent updates?
Great question! I just double checked to make sure I didn't miss an update haha. My answer is still no. Gutenberg is constantly at least 2-5 years behind the competition, and I have to say that, while this is WAY better than it used to be, it's still worth your money to grab Elementor because it's much more intuitive and saves you time you could be spending on other things in your business
Se puede usar Bakery sin licencia. Fresh, todo muy bien, y el trabajo desde el editor de backend... se equivoca al comienzo
Hi! Sorry, I had to use Google translate so it wasn’t clear to me - what was wrong at the beginning?
Boy, Trent I need to listen to this again. It appears that I thought I knew what I was doing but I guess I didn't.
No worries! It's honestly just all about making life a little easier. Websites are complicated enough!
Great video. Clear and helpful.
Thanks, Douglas! Glad to hear that.
thank you, that really helped! 🙏 elementor🤗
For sure! Happy to help :)
Great review of the two options - helpful to make a decision for sure!
Happy to come in with the assist!
Thank you Trent, I enjoyed.
Appreciate that, Kyle!
Awesome explanation and comparison! Thank you.
For sure! Glad I could help. :)
You explained this well!
Appreciate it! :)
In Wpbakery having save template option, and we can use that Designs/Element wherever we needs to use on click. In elementor Not 100% sure this features is available or not?
You do! It’s called a global widget or global element. You can also save sections as templates. :)
@@TrentKennelly it's Paid..😁😁
@@alpsprajapati yup, on both platforms. :)
Elementor is best. Wp bakery is wrost there is not much customization option
Definitely love elementor!
Hello, That is the video i was looking for.
I bought a fancy theme for a website project which comes with WPB integrated, but it is really limited at all. I have to use just the feature of the themes and the few from WPB and that’s all. I am felling frustrated because the theme is slowing the website speed drastically. What do you recommend to me. Build up again from zero the entire website or try to use another website builder together with WPB for the other features of the website.
I’ve seen that some people use Visual Composer with WPB to insert the features missing. I try to use Elementor to design the other pages of the website but since the fancy fucking theme comes with WPB it gives many errors and slowdown the web.
Hope you can give me some hopes.
Building from zero sucks, but it helps to keep everything homogenized. I’d suggest for now that you use elementor for anything new and slowly move everything else away from WPB. No doubt it’s a pain though. Sorry you’re going through it :(
Tks, from Brazil!
You got in, Janser!
Quality content! and so helpful
Appreciate that!!
Very helpful. Great video.
Thanks so much!
Elementornis maaaaad slow. But slightly more powerful. If WP bakery had some of elementors features I'd never switch.
Really? That’s crazy I haven’t experienced that. What system (hosting, etc) are you working with?
@@TrentKennelly when I say slow I'm speaking of the work flow... Not the system. I can create a full blown page in 3 minutes where as in Elementor that same page would take 3X as long to design. I hate having to click text fields 3 and 4 times to edit text. Little things like that. Having to click back and forth between the live preview and the edit pane. I just started using Elementor literally a week ago so I'm still not familiar with all the shortcuts. It's growing on me though.
@@commiezombie2477 ah gotcha! Yeah, there are definitely some UI things that can be improved. Text editing is a great example - drives me nuts that sometimes you can use the side panel field to edit text and others you have to edit in the editable webpage itself. And you just have to know the difference. But overall in my personal opinion it’s worlds away from WPB
That video really came in handy for me!
Love to hear it! Assuming you're going for Elementor then? 😂
@@TrentKennelly 100% 😂 (I was already using it but I found an amazing template that only worked with WPBakery but I def won't switch lol)
@@issueoflucas whoa! Huge opportunity for the dev then haha! Glad to hear you’re not switching!!! 😂
WordPress is what you make it. Very true.
Definitely! Thanks so much. :)
I'd go Elementor 100X over. Though, now that they've raised so much VC money, pricing may get jacked up quite quickly.
Totally agree, Elementor is where it's at. I hadn't heard about the new VC, good for them! I think they just recently raised their prices as well, so we'll see how it plays out.
Amazing video. Thanks!
Appreciate that so much!
I buy a lot of WordPress templates and it seems some of the best templates come with wpbakery.r. I wonder why. I am not really a fan of either and dont really like bloated packages that come littered with stuff i may never use.
My theory there is that WPBakery was the industry standard for a LONG time until Elementor came around. So most templates still cater to it somewhat. Otherwise - totally agree, there's so much bloatware in a few of these haha
You are a monster! A Well of knowledge!
Haha thank you! There’s always more to learn. :)
Been using VC and WPBakery for many many years now. Was contemplating switch to Elementor but couldn't justify paying stupid money for subscription getting almost nothing extra in return. Elementor is a resource hog and HTML it generates is actualy more ugly than WPBakery.
Have you noticed the huge price jump on Elementor? 1 Website $49, 25 Websites $199, 100 Websites $499, and 1000 Websites $999.
Yeah, but it does make some sense when you consider that they’re serving both smaller markets (people with one business) and website building firms at the same time. Most people have no reason to buy higher than the &
$49 package
Hands down...ELEMENTOR, ALL THE WAY!!!
I AGREE, wpbakery is just way too CLUNKY and it makes me ANGRY why they'd make simple tasks too COMPLICATED :(
Agreed! They apparently have a different product that’s better but… I’ll stick to elementor thanks haha
What about the responsive ?
You mean responsive mode for each platform?
@@TrentKennelly Yes :-) I think it's important to talk about the possibility to manage the responsive mode with wpbakery and elementor
Elementor hands down #1
Totally! Love elementor
Damn, i wish i've see this a few days earlier. I just paid 70 dollars for a fancy theme including wpbackery and yes it seem clucky to use. Especcially since i didnt use wp in 8 years. For a somple site like mine i probably could havr the free version of elementor which i already had installed as a plugin but nooooo i had to get fancy. Well, i got schooled through my wallet.
Oof, sorry to hear it! WPB is still fine, elementor just really beats it haha. Though I think the decision is whether you’re really going to stick to one or the other, because if you decide to switch it’s really not easy.
@@TrentKennelly i'm starting to get the hang of it now. Not so bad afterall i guess.
@@ikealamp53 yeah, definitely manageable haha. Good luck!!
@@TrentKennelly hi Trent, a friend send me a *free* version of elementor. He says it's the pro version. Is it possible for me to switch from wpbackery to elementor and still use the theme? Possibly without losing my progress so far. (Backed up ofcourse) Or can i use them both at the same time? Thx in advance.
Thanks
You’re welcome!!
We learn something new everyday.
Definitely!
*ELEMENTOR*
_ESSENTIAL: US$ 49/ year_
_ADVANCED: US$ 99/ year_
_EXPERT POPULAR: US$ 199/ year_
I thought it was a one off payment
Thanks for the clarification! Sorry if what I said was somehow misleading. Yes, Elementor is yearly and WPBakery is a one-time payment.
It's so funny how these days everyone wants to explain how to make wordpress do the most complex stuff, but there are no resources explaining how to use it for blogging, the thing it was primarily created for. I don't want to make an ecommerce site, i don't want to make a hotel booking site, I just wanna make a blog!!! sighs
I can understand that! But one way or another your blog should have a homepage and a few other structured pages.
It’s too bad that Elementor spiked their pricing. Just not worth it.
Their pricing didn’t really change for lower plans though. Are/were you on a plan with more than 3 sites? If so then it changed. If not I believe it’s the same
Sponsored by Elementor!
Haha if only! Times have changed since this video was made. Elementor has become much more bloated and less friendly
background music is distracting... another stressful element - hard to focus. sigh.
Thank you so much for the feedback! When you say "another" stressful element - were there other things about this video that got to you? Always open to improving my content. :)
hmm sorry.: my mother tongue is German. I mean, "a" stressful element - Thats my personal experience when I watch explanatory videos with music in the background. Thank you for your content!!!
@@gabrielepichler no problem at all! That’s great to know either way. I’ll keep it in mind for future videos. Thank you so much!
For someone that hasn't touched either of them, with Elementor you can figure out because it is intuitive but WPBakery, F***. It is not my first rodeo with Page Builders and you just can't figure out WP Bakery, it is not intuitive. Right now I'm working on a client site since yesterday and can't figure out this crap! I Hate WP Bakery! 🤮
Oof! Sorry to hear that! Totally agree, there’s really no contest between them! Nuts that people still use it
This guy is just an affiliate marketer. He's biased towards Elementor because he'll get a larger commission if we click on his link and purchase it.
Lol good one. Yes I have affiliate links, but that’s honestly just good practice.
I’ve actually used both extensively and find Elementor superior in a lot of ways. Though I hear they’ve come out with a newer version of wpbakery I haven’t tested yet.
(Edited for clarity about what new version there was)
Seems extremely bias.
Hi, James! Sorry to hear you think that. In what way was it biased to you?
I hate elementor !
Oh no! Why?
@@TrentKennelly I prefer WP Bakery, I find elementor restrictive especially with backend editor. I feel overall WP Bakery is much easier to use vs elementor, as you mentioned needs some features upgrading otherwise I cant really complain.