@jonas_hellwig @threadi @bph
Yes, you're right. At precisely those sentencs I thought, well, that's going a bit too far ...

But I agreed with most things in the post, and I liked the conclusion (see above).

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Btw, I rediscovered your blog recently in my feed reader and wanted to thank you for all the high quality posts in there. Cheers

@threadi @bph
I first saw Elementor in 2016 or so, and I loved it so much that I even made video courses about it.

But around 2020 that changed, and in 2026 to me the question is "Do you really need a pagebuilder for your site?" and especially for beginners the answer often is "No".

The post's conclusion sums up my personal experience pretty well: "Elementor had a good run. It solved a real problem ... but the platform caught up".

But of course there are sites where pagebuilders add value.

Very good post by Johanne Courtright. Her conclusion:

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Elementor had a good run. It solved a real problem when WordPress needed it. But the platform caught up. The page builder era is ending.

I’m building with Gutenberg. Clean markup. Semantic HTML. Global styles that actually work. Sites clients can edit without calling me. Sites that don’t depend on a plugin to exist.
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Via @bph, Gutenberg Times Newsletter #356

#WordPress #Pagebuilder #Elementor #Gutenberg

https://groundworx.dev/resources/why-i-choose-gutenberg-over-elementor/