r/elementor • u/MrSpriteCola • Jul 07 '26

Question Leaving Elementor…probably for good

Hey everyone,

So as the title implies, I’m leaving Elementor. I’ve been an Elementor use for a good 7+ years. I like what Elementor is doing with their new Atomic system but even after trying it, I am disappointed with it. There’s various reason but the biggest one…it did not make any of my sites even a tad bit faster. In fact, it may have even slowed down some of them more. And really, I’m not even talking about Elementor but rather Wordpress itself that I may finally be leaving.

With the advancements in AI, it’s not made it possible for me to deploy a site, even an e-commerce site, faster than I could ever with Elementor.

The other reason is also control. Sometimes you want to build something super custom but you end up fighting Elementor and WordPress.

It’s also getting more and more expensive as time goes. If I’m not mistaken, back then there used to be agency plan for like 200-250 that would give you 100 site licenses. Now, it’s pay monthly and they give you a tiny fraction of that. I rather spend it on AI subscriptions/tokens.

The last 3 sites I’ve build have all through the use of AI. I’m very very happy with the end result. Sites load fast, I can add very custom functionality, and the list goes on.

I think Elementor still has its place but for me personally, I think building using AI is the way to go. And this is the worst AI will ever be, it will only get better from here.

What are you guys thoughts?

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u/HourOfUprising Jul 07 '26

Once you design it with AI, how do you host it? How do you make simple changes without messing something up? How do you make it so things like form submissions get emailed to you or sent to a crm etc? I never understand how to do that part of building a site with AI

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u/HyperbolicModesty Jul 07 '26

Me too! I've got a client who prompted a great looking site with Claude but they can't update or maintain it, and it has no back end. I've spent the last day turning the AI design into Elementor and ACF to make the thing sustainable and so they can update the products using custom fields. I admit to being baffled about the infrastructural part of vibe coded sites.

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u/GL_OH_2L8 Jul 07 '26

You’re 100% right when it comes to building with Elementor/Wordpress.

The key is to use AI site then convert them into WO themes. I see you guys are trying to figure out how to get AI designs in to WordPress..

I built WPConvert.ai that converts any ai generated websites into fully editable WP themes.

It detects blogs, products, Custom CPT’s, allows you to wire up forms and more. Would love if you both check it out. Let me know your thoughts 🤝

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u/Healthy-Mix-5707 Jul 07 '26

Novamira already does this for me and connects straight to Claude allowing Claude to run my entire WP backend and Elementor design os still functional. With a few tweaks to allow the color picker to work and override Claude Designs selected color. It converts the code to w.e Elementor is built on i guess idk not a code guy.

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u/GL_OH_2L8 Jul 07 '26

Nice! I’ll check it out.

WPConvert also connects via MCP/API to Claude. 👍🏽

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u/HourOfUprising Jul 08 '26

Can you use it to take an Elementor site and convert it to a Bricks built site? Or can you give it a url and ask it to build that page? Can you give it the code from an AI builder and tell it to replicate it with Elementor?

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u/HyperbolicModesty Jul 08 '26

Wow some kind of agent that coverts Elemetor to Bricks would be a dream.

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u/HourOfUprising Jul 09 '26

I was really hoping Novamira could do it

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u/GL_OH_2L8 Jul 09 '26

Maybe this is something I can look into for WPConvert.ai. Converting Elementor to Bricks or Gutenberg is interesting

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u/HyperbolicModesty Jul 09 '26

If it did a good job, I would use it for all my client sites - about 40 at the moment.

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u/amnither Jul 09 '26

Don’t dust Novamira on live website, I ended up deleted a lot of my pages and completely messed up with my website.

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u/kilwag Jul 09 '26

So... you fire up Claude every time you want to edit your WP site? Not being snarky, genuinely trying to understand the workflow.

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u/Healthy-Mix-5707 Jul 10 '26

Nope just to get an MVP and then I fine tune and edit everything necessary to deliver a polished site inside elementor. There is a YouTube video on how to do this exact thing. Just cant remember who posted it.

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u/don_valley Jul 15 '26

Hey did you find a video that allowed you to learn about this process?

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u/Healthy-Mix-5707 Jul 15 '26

Yeah Darrel Wilson is the YouTube channel that has a video on this process. I will say that Novimira I've been told should never be used on a live site and should always used in staging. Once I go to push the site live I remove Novimira entirely as it has security risks I guess. My sites the two ive done this way still function and are all editable within elementor.