Angelina here with Mint & Porter Design Co.
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In this video, I joined up with John Banks of Bank's Web Design and I'm going to be talking
about the top five reasons to use WP Bakery and Elementor.
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So I decided to switch it up in this video and collaborate with another web designer
who specializes in Elementor so you can hear two unique views on why these are the best
WordPress page builders.
I make the case for WP Bakery and John makes the case for Elementor.
So check out why we love these page builders.
First up, it's easy.
There's no coding involved.
It's all block-based visual design.
Also, it's faster.
Premium themes often offer WP Bakery so you can get familiar with working with this page
builder and you become super fast.
It also provides the ability to work with a frontend or backend visual builder.
You can easily manipulate demo content either with the WP Bakery templates or theme templates
as a starting point.
Also, there's plug-and-play content with the introduction of blocks.
You can easily copy and paste these blocks into different sections of the website to
speed up your process.
So that's why I love WP Bakery.
Let's jump on over to John and hear what he loves about Elementor.
My name is John from Banks Web Design.
This video is a little bit different.
So this video, I'm going to be doing a little collaboration with my friend Angelina over
at Mint & Porter Design, Okay.
She's a web designer over in the U.S.-Colorado.
I'm over here in the UK and we use different page builders.
I'm a fan of Elementor and she's a fan of WP Bakery.
So this video, we're just going to talk about five reasons why we each like them.
But I'm going to start off with Elementor.
I want to give you my five reasons why I use it.
Okay.
Number one, like a lot of the page builders now it's drag-and-drop.
Now, this is nothing new, but it's a really nice clean interface.
I'm not going to say it's easy cause it isn't.
It becomes easy once you get used to things like sections, padding, and margins, but once
you work all that out, which is not particularly difficult, then you're on your way to building
great looking websites.
Another thing I will say, number two with Elementor, is there are a ton of third party
plugins that fit really well with it.
So the free version is amazing as it is.
Um, but if you want to just take that a little bit further than there are a load of plugins,
as I say, they integrate really well with this, and you can add on a ton more elements
to give your websites just that little bit more creative edge.
The third reason I like Elementor is the amount of blocks and templates that they give away
with it.
Again, straight out of the box.
Um, you can literally pull together a really nice looking site just from the blocks and
the templates that they have.
Little bit of a pro tip, each themes kind of have their own.
So some themes, um, that are really driven with Elementor.
One in particular is Astra.
If you download that, there's an add-on pack, which you can get and you get something like
another 140 odd templates and blocks that go with it.
It's really, really neat.
Uh, the fourth reason why I like it is I love the fact that you can copy and paste styles.
Now I know you can copy and paste blocks.
That's fine.
Why I particularly like doing is copy and pasting styles.
So for example, let's say you've built a page, that's got a button and on that button, you
want it to have a color.
Let's say you wanted that color to be yellow with a little bit of shadow, tiny bit of pattern
around it and a certain font.
And obviously you want to use that, but under that kind of color palette and that design
throughout your site.
And so what you're able to do with this is you can just copy the whole block and then
say, you start a new block out, but you want to put the button in and then you want to
maybe put another one in or, or move it down slowly, but you still want to keep that same
style.
You're able to paste in the style.
So then it keeps that same sort of color scheme and settings throughout your page.
And the fifth version why I love Elementor is it's free.
Now.
Obviously there is a pro version, which I highly recommend, but the one thing I will
say is that the free version is absolutely insane.
I've personally built sites for myself, just using the free version and they've turned
out really well.
I've also personally built sites for clients just using the free version and they absolutely
love them.
So there you go.
So do you prefer Elementor or WP Bakery?
Let me know in the comments.
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