Peter Müller

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/

Why I Choose Gutenberg Over Elementor - Groundworx

Elementor solved a real problem. WordPress needed a visual editor. People wanted to drag and drop, see changes in real time, customize anything without touching code. Elementor delivered. The idea was great — similar to Webflow, it gave everyone power settings to control anything they wanted. But it grew into something bigger than it should […]

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Show threadHans-Gerd GerhardsFeb 7
@bph @pmmueller
Great Post. 🥳
Show threadthreadiFeb 8
@pmmueller @bph To be honest, I don't agree with that. First of all: yes, I love Gutenberg and I now prefer to build pages with it. I am now familiar with around 30 page builders. Each one has its justification for existence. Elementor too. I don't think much (or rather nothing at all) of drawing a kind of comparison here in terms of Gutenberg. It leads nowhere. Page builders are and will continue to be part of the diversity of WordPress. For good reason.
Show threadTorsten LandsiedelFeb 8
@threadi @pmmueller @bph 💯
Show threadJonas HellwigFeb 8
@threadi @pmmueller @bph Very opinionated, but I agree in general. Maybe to lenient in terms of Gutenbergs Basic styles. "Minimal styling out of the box. […] No inline styles forced on you. No specificity wars." naah – not really. Gutenberg still has way to much base styles for buttons, rounded images, which we have to ignore or remove manually.
Show threadPeter MüllerFeb 8

@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🥂

Show threadPeter MüllerFeb 8

@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.

Show threadMega “Byte” Matt Feb 9
@pmmueller @bph 100%. I made the Jacobin NL theme this way (like most of my themes the last five years) and it’s been a boon.
Show threadMark JonesFeb 9
@pmmueller @bph I switched over full time to the block editor on my client sites a couple of years ago and haven’t looked back